Computer Organization and Embedded Systems

✍ Scribed by Carl Hamacher

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 624
• Edition: 6
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

Title
Contents
1 Basic Structure of Computers
2 Instruction Set Architecture
3 Basic Input/Output
4 Software
5 Basic Processing Unit
6 Pipelining
7 Input/Output Organization
8 The Memory System
9 Arithmetic
10 Embedded Systems
11 System-on-a-Chip—A Case Study
12 Parallel Processing andPerformance
Appendix A Logic Circuits
Appendix B The Altera Nios II Processor
Appendix C The ColdFire Processor
Appendix D TheARM Processor
Index