The Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture

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Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2006 - Computers - 799 pages
Thoroughly Revised And Updated, The Essentials Of Computer Organization And Architecture, Second Edition Is A Comprehensive Resource That Addresses All Of The Necessary Organization And Architecture Topics Yet Is Concise Enough To Move Through In A Single Semester. The Text Covers Such Topics As Digital Logic, Data Representation, Machine-Level Language, General Organization, Assembly Language Programming, CPU Organization, Memory Organization, And Input/Output Devices, As Well As A New Chapter On Embedded Systems. Correlated To The ACM-IEEE Computing Curricula Guidelines, The Essentials Of Computer Organization And Architecture Is The Forefront Text For Your Computer Organization And Architecture Course.

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Contents

CHAPTER Introduction
1
CHAPTER Data Representation in Computer Systems
39
Chapter Summary
91
Focus on Codes for Data Recording and Transmission
100
CHAPTER Boolean Algebra and Digital Logic
109
An Introduction to a Simple Computer
177
5
228
CHAPTER A Closer Look at Instruction Set Architectures
243
7A 3
392
7A 4
398
CHAPTER System Software
407
CHAPTER Alternative Architectures
461
CHAPTER Topics in Embedded Systems
505
CHAPTER Performance Measurement and Analysis
541
CHAPTER Network Organization and Architecture
591
CHAPTER Selected Storage Systems and Interfaces
669

CHAPTER Memory
281
CHAPTER InputOutput and Storage Systems
327
7
353
8
359
RAID Level 3
367
Chapter Summary
377
Focus on Data Compression
384
APPENDIX Data Structures and the Computer
695
A 3
700
Glossary
715
Answers and Hints for Selected Exercises
757
Index
773
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Bibliographic information

TitleThe Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture
AuthorsLinda Null, Julia Lobur
Editionillustrated
PublisherJones & Bartlett Learning, 2006
ISBN0763737690, 9780763737696
Length799 pages
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Computers / Computer Architecture
Computers / Software Development & Engineering / General
  
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