A new advanced textbook/reference providing a comprehensive survey of hardware and software architectural principles and methods of computer systems organization and design. The book is suitable for a first course in computer organization. The style is similar to that of the author's book on assembly language in that it strongly supports self-study by students. This organization facilitates compressed presentation of material. Emphasis is also placed on related concepts to practical designs/chips. Topics: material presentation suitable for self- study; concepts related to practical designs and implementations; extensive examples and figures; details provided on several digital logic simulation packages; free MASM download instructions provided; and end-of-chapter exercises.

Inhalt

• Overview of computer organization Digital logic basics Combinational circuits Sequential logic circuits System buses Processor organization and performance Pentium processor Pipelining and vector processing Overview of Assembly language Procedures and the Stack Addressing modes Selected Pentium instructions High-level language interface RISC processors MIPS Assembly language Memory system design Cache memory Virtual memory Input/output organization Interrupts APPENDIXES: Computer arithmetic; character representation; assembling and linking Assembly language programs; debugging Assembly language programs; running Pentium Assembly language programs on a Linux system; digital logic simulators; SPIM simulator and debugger; the SPARC architecture; Pentium instruction set