Who is the book Digital Circuitry and Computer Architecture for?

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Please tell me who has read this book ( Harris D.M. and Harris S.L. - Digital Circuitry and Computer Architecture ), for whom it is intended and what level of training is needed to read (and understand) the information in this book? (the book contains ~ 1600 pages. Reading will take half a year and it’s not a fact that something will come of it. I don’t want to waste so much time)
Should a student of Computer Science read this book, in particular programming (systems), or is this book intended more for hardware engineers and circuit designers?
What are the analogues of this book (perhaps it is too complicated for a beginner, or oversaturated with water, or contains a lot of unnecessary information for a programmer-engineer (in the future), or does not contain completely up-to-date information at all (although this is most likely not the case)).
Before reading Tanenbaum's book on architecture, I would like to understand a little about circuitry. I know there is a book "Code", everyone advises it as an introduction to this topic, but everything is somehow superficial there, and it feels like a lot has been missed, so I would like a more practical book, since in "Code. The Secret Language of Informatics" everything is on words, and the information is not put off in the best way.

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Who is it for, and what level of experience is needed to read (and understand) the information in this book?

For a student of a normal technical university. The book about FPGAs (FPGA) is quite interesting, the direction is promising, but you won’t earn a lot of money in it.

Should this book be read by a student of Computer Science, in particular programming (systems), or is this book intended more for hardware engineers and circuit designers?

Designed more for hardware engineers.

What are the analogues of this book (perhaps it is too complicated for a beginner, or oversaturated with water, or contains a lot of unnecessary information for a programmer-engineer (in the future), or does not contain completely up-to-date information at all (although this is most likely not the case)).

A book for a student of a good technical university.