Structured Computer Organization

Description

Structured Computer Organization is a bestselling text that provides an accessible introduction to computer hardware and architecture. The book takes a modern structured, layered approach to understanding computer systems. It’s been thoroughly updated to reflect today’s most critical new technologies and the latest developments in computer organization and architecture. Tanenbaum’s renowned writing style and painstaking research make this one of the most accessible and accurate books available, maintaining the author’s popular method of presenting a computer as a series of layers, each one built upon the ones below it, and understandable as a separate entity.

Key Features

1. Uses a clear, approachable writing style to introduce students to multilevel machines, CPU organization, gates and Boolean algebra, microarchitecture, ISA level, flow of controls, virtual memory, and assembly language.
2. Covers common devices in a practical manner rather than with an abstract discussion of theory and concepts.

Table of Contents

1. Chapter 1 Introduction
2. Chapter 2 Computer Systems
3. Chapter 3 The Digital Logic Level
4. Chapter 4 The Microarchitecture Level
5. Chapter 5 The Instruction Set
6. Chapter 6 The Operating System Machine Level
7. Chapter 7 The Assembly Language Level
8. Chapter 8 Parallel Computer Architectures

Author Biography

Andrew Stuart “Andy” Tanenbaum (sometimes referred to by the handle ast) (born March 16, 1944) is an American computer scientist and professor emeritus of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

He is best known as the author of MINIX, a free Unix-like operating system for teaching purposes, and for his computer science textbooks, regarded as standard texts in the field. He regards his teaching job as his most important work. Since 2004 he has operated Electoral-vote.com, a website dedicated to analysis of polling data in federal elections in the United States.