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 include
updates 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.
- ISBN10 0824745396
- ISBN13 9780824745394
- Publish Date 25 April 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 September 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
- Imprint Marcel Dekker Inc
- Edition 3rd New edition
- Format eBook
- Pages 736
- Language English