The Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture, Fourth Edition

  • 19h 49m
  • Julia Lobur, Linda Null
  • Jones and Bartlett Learning
  • 2015

Updated and revised to reflect the most current data in the field, perennial bestseller

The Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture, Fourth Edition is comprehensive enough to address all necessary organization and architecture topics, but concise enough to be appropriate for a single-term course. Its focus on real-world examples and practical applications encourages students to develop a “big-picture” understanding of how essential organization and architecture concepts are applied in the computing world. In addition to direct correlation with the ACM/IEEE CS2013 guidelines for computer organization and architecture, the text exposes readers to the inner workings of a modern digital computer through an integrated presentation of fundamental concepts and principles. The fully revised and updated Fourth Edition includes the most up-to-the-minute data and resources available and reflects current technologies, including tablets and cloud computing. All-new exercises, expanded discussions, and feature boxes in every chapter implement even more real-world applications and current data, and many chapters include all-new examples.

This award-winning, best-selling text is the most thorough, student-friendly, and accessible text on the market today. Key Features:

  • The Fourth Edition is in direct correlation with the ACM/IEEE CS2013 guidelines for computer organization and architecture, in addition to integrating material from additional knowledge units.
  • All-new material on a variety of topics, including zetabytes and yottabytes, automatons, tablet computers, graphic processing units, and cloud computing
  • The MARIE Simulator package allows students to learn the essential concepts of computer organization and architecture, including assembly language, without getting caught up in unnecessary and confusing details.
  • Ideally suited for single-term courses

In this Book

  • Introduction
  • Data Representation in Computer Systems
  • Boolean Algebra and Digital Logic
  • MARIE: An Introduction to a Simple Computer
  • A Closer Look at Instruction Set Architectures
  • Memory
  • Input/Output and Storage Systems
  • System Software
  • Alternative Architectures
  • Topics in Embedded 10 Systems
  • Performance Measurement and Analysis
  • Network Organization and Architecture
  • Selected Storage Systems and Interfaces
  • Answers and Hints for Selected Exercises
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