Computer Organisation and Architecture

This book describes how a computer works and explains how the various hardware components are organized and interconnected to provide a platform upon which programs can be executed. It takes a simple, step-by-step approach suitable for first year undergraduates coming to the subject for the first time. The second edition of this book has been thoroughly updated to cover new developments in the field and includes new diagrams and end-of-chapter exercises. It will also be accompanied by a lecturer and student web site which will contain solutions to exercises, further exercises, PowerPoint slides and all the source code used in the book.

Auteur

B.S. CHALK is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics at South Bank University, UK.

Contenu

Preface
Introduction
Data Representation and Computer Arithmetic
Digital Logic Circuits
Fetching and
Executing Instructions
The Intel Processor
Primary Memory
Secondary Memory
Input-Output
Operating Systems
Reduced Instruction Set Computers
Communications Architecture
Parallel
Architecture
Appendices
Index.