Product Description: Suitable for a one- or two-semester undergraduate or beginning graduate course in computer science and computer engineering, Computer Organization, Design, and Architecture, Fifth Edition presents the operating principles, capabilities, and limitations of digital computers to enable the development of complex yet efficient systems...read more

This unique and proven text provides a hands-on introduction to the design of a computer system-depicting, step by step, the arrangement of a simple but complete hypothetical computer followed by detailed architectural features of existing computer systems as enhancements to the structure of the simple computer.Changes in the Third Edition of Computer Design and Architecture includeupdates to reflect contemporary organizations and devices new technologies and devices in combinatorial and integrated circuits new technologies in sequential circuits new technologies in memory and storage the latest architecture examples contemporary memory hierarchy concepts Ideal for one- or two-semester courses! With end-of-chapter summaries, references, and problems, as well as over 250 drawings and tables, Computer Design and Architecture, Third Edition is a classroom-tested text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in electrical and computer engineering and computer science taking design courses such as Computer Systems Design, Computer Hardware Design, Computer Architecture, Computer Organization, and Assembly Language Programming. (view table of contents)

The second edition of this text provides an introduction to the analysis and design of digital circuits at a logic, instead of electronics, level. It covers a range of topics, from number system theory to asynchronous logic design. A solution manual is available to instructors only. Requests must be made on official school stationery. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book introduces pipelined and parallel processing concepts with an emphasis on corresponding hardware architectures. The author first describes the most generic hardware aspects, then gives supporting details on corresponding programming languages, data structures, and operating systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)