Computer Design and Architecture (Little, Brown Computer Systems Series)

By Sajjan G. Shiva

This unique and classroom-proven text provides a hands-on introduction to the design of computer systems. It depict, step by step, the arrangement of a simple but complete hypothetical compute, followed by detailed architectural features of existing computer systems as enhancements to the structure of the simple computer. This treatment integrates the four categories of digital systems architecture: logic design, computer organization, computer hardware, and computer system architecture. This third edition incorporates updates to reflect contemporary organizations and devices, modern technologies and devices in combinatorial and integrated circuits, sequential circuits and memory and storage.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0673396835
• ISBN13: 9780673396839
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Scott Foresman & Co
• Length: 594 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.0" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

This is a great book

This book has provided me with a deep understanding of computer design. I have read this book several times already and continue to get more out of it.

Excellent Introductory to Computer Architecture

I picked this book up at a local college bookstore, and was immediately absorbed in it. The book does an excellent job of taking the reader from the very basics of "switches" to understanding how they come together to form a modern computer. By the end of the book, the reader is designing their own small computers. The book has a gradual step up from simple logic gates to half-adders, full-adders, etc., and builds on top of each underlying piece of architecture. I'd highly recommend for anyone looking to get into the field of computer science.