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. The book carefully explains the main principles supported by examples drawn from commercially available processors. The 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. Table of Contents: 1 Basic Structure of Computers2 Instruction Set Architecture3 Basic Input/Output4 Software5 Basic Processing Unit6 Pipelining7 Input/output Organization8 The Memory System9 Arithmetic10 Embedded Systems11 System-On-A-Chip — A Case StudyAppendix A Logic CircuitsAppendix B The Altera Nios II ProcessorAppendix C The ColdFire ProcessorAppendix D The ARM ProcessorAppendix E The Intel IA-32 Architecture
