Review of "Getting Started with FPGAs" by Russell Merrick
A comprehensive review of "Getting Started with FPGAs: Digital Circuit Design, Verilog, and VHDL for Beginners" by Russell Merrick, published by No Starch Press. This book provides an accessible on-ramp to field programmable gate array development, covering Boolean algebra, flip-flops, simulation, state machines, FPGA primitives, binary math, and I/O through hands-on projects targeting Lattice iCE40 hardware. Merrick's dual-language approach presenting every code example in both Verilog and VHDL, combined with his years of educational content creation at nandland.com, produces a uniquely approachable beginner text that demystifies the parallel-thinking paradigm shift required for hardware description.
