Computer System Architecture (3rd Edition)

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 524 pages
• Published by: Prentice Hall
• Edition: 3rd Edition October 19, 1992
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0131755633
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0131755635
• Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 1.4 inches
• Weighs: 2.4 pounds

The publisher, Prentice-Hall Engineering/Science/Mathematics
Focused primarily on hardware design and organization -- and the impact of software on the architecture -- this volume first covers the basic organization, design, and programming of a simple digital computer, then explores the separate functional units in detail.

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Focused primarily on hardware design and organization - and the impact of software on the architecture - this volume first covers the basic organization, design, and programming of a simple digital computer, then explores the separate functional units in detail.

Features:

• develops an elementary computer to demonstrate by example the organization and design of digital computers.
• uses a simple register transfer language to specify various computer operations.

Reader Reviews
I found this book to be one of the most clearly written texts on the subject of computer architecture(as opposed to the terse, cryptic Astrom and Wittenmark books for control systems, for example.) Now, a professor can easily test around the basics of any text book by surprising students with unexpected special cases, exceptions, and boundary conditions. But, that is not the fault of the text book itself. If any of those tricks actually appeared in a text book, they would be ignored and he/she would find new ones to test. Noone can memorize how to think; knowing how to solve the examples in a textbook is only the beginning. That's why there are homework problems. Unpopular professor tricks aside, I think this is a great book on the topic and it gave me the skills to perform certain assignments on my own during my first engineering job...skills that my employer thought he would have to teach to all us newbies. I was glad I had this book in school. Comment | | (Report this)