Subject Area: Computer System Architecture, Computer Networks in CIDEC Library.

COMPUTER ORGANIZATION AND ARCHITECTURE:
Designing for Performance
4th ed

Publisher : Prentice Hall - Upper Saddle River, N.J.

Bibliographic :

• Hardcover
• ISBN: 0-13-359985-X
• August, 1995, © 1996
• xiv, 682 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
• Dewey No.: 004.2/2 20

• Computer organization. * Computer architecture.
• Computer Engineering: System Architecture

This is the fourth edition of the best selling Computer Organization and Architecture book by well known author Bill Stallings. It is an excellent book and has been widely used as a professional reference book on computer organization and architecture.

CONTENTS :

I. OVERVIEW. 1. Introduction. 2. Computer Evolution and Performance.

II. THE COMPUTER SYSTEM. 3. System Buses. 4. Internal Memory. 5. External Memory. 6. Input/Output. 7. Operating System Support.

III. THE CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT. 8. Computer Arithmetic. 9. Instruction Sets: Characteristics and Functions. 10. Instruction Sets: Addressing Modes and Formats. 11. CPU Structure and Function. 12. Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISCs). 13. Superscalar Processors.

IV. THE CONTROL UNIT. 14. Control Unit Operation. 15. Microprogrammed Control.

V. PARALLEL ORGANIZATION. 16. Parallel Processing. Appendix: Digital Logic. Glossary. References (p. 655-668). Index.