Computer Organization
6th Edition
Published on 1. May 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
710 pages
978-0-07-131705-4 (ISBN)
Description
The sixth edition of this book covers the key topics in computer organization and embedded systems. It presents hardware design principles and shows how hardware design is influenced by the requirements of software. This book is suitable for undergraduate electrical and computer engineering majors and computer science specialists. It is intended for a first course in computer organization and embedded systems.
More details
Edition
6th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
ISBN-13
978-0-07-131705-4 (9780071317054)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
V. Carl Hamacher (Toronto, Canada) Professor of Computer Engineering at Queens University, Canada. Zvonko Vranesic (Toronto, Canada) Professor of Computer Engineering at Toronto University, Canada. Safwat Zaky (Toronto, Canada) Professor of Computer Engineering at Toronto University, Canada.
Content
1 Basic Structure of Computers 2 Instruction Set Architecture 3 Basic Input/Output 4 Software 5 Basic Processing Unit 6 Pipelining 7 Input/output Organization 8 The Memory System 9 Arithmetic 10 Embedded Systems 11 System-On-A-Chip -- A Case Study Appendix A Logic Circuits Appendix B The Altera Nios II Processor Appendix C The ColdFire Processor Appendix D The ARM Processor Appendix E The Intel IA-32 Architecture