Computer Systems Organization and Architecture

By John D. Carpinelli

Book Overview

This book provides up-to-date coverage of fundamental concepts for the design of computers and their subsystems. It presents material with a serious but easy-to-understand writing style that makes it accessible to readers without sacrificing important topics. The book emphasizes a finite state machine approach to CPU design, which provides a strong background for reader understanding. It forms a solid basis for readers to draw upon as they study this material and in later engineering and computer science practice. The book also examines the design of computer systems, including such topics as memory hierarchies, input/output processing, interrupts, and direct memory access, as well as advanced architectural aspects of parallel processing. To make the material accessible to beginners, the author has included two running examples of increasing complexity: the Very Simple CPU, which contains four instruction sets and shows very simple CPU design; and the Relatively Simple CPU which contains 16 instruction sets and adds enough complexity to illustrate more advanced concepts. Each chapter features a real-world machine on which the discussed organization and architecture concepts are implemented. This book is designed to teach computer organization/architecture to engineers and computer scientists. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201612534
• ISBN13: 9780201612530
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 2.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 7.6" x 1.6"

Customer Reviews

Understandable but complex - for a complex subject

I used this book for an undergrad Architecture course. I had a great teacher, and we only looked at certain sections in the book. There is an awful lot to cover in a single semester. The book is written for students with very little formal electronics knowledge, but you do need to know some basic logic and hardware concepts. It is based on the i86 architecture, making generalizations where possible. If you have a strong...

WOW!!!!

Read this book for a Computer Architecture class and let me just say, Wow!!! This is a great book, front to back. Although the book claims to not have a prerequisite, I would not recommend it. A little background in electronics and knowledge of a high level language would surely give you a good background to get the most out of this book.

The best computer architecture book I have ever read.

I read the entire book from cover to cover for a computer engineering course. It definitely went well beyond my wildest expectations in depht and material. Dr. Carpinelli begins each section by relating the new topic to a "Very Simple CPU", then to a "Relatively Simple CPU", and finally to an Intel 8085 processor. This gradual approach is what really makes this book so good, and is what helped me absorb the material so...

Excellent book for Computer Architecture.

I used this book in Com. Architecture course. It's cover everything from state machine design to parallel processing. Every topics come in correct order and very clear in explanation and example. A lot of pictures and excellent organize.