Principles of Computer Architecture

By Mark D. WaymanPatti L. BachelderPamela M. Watts, et al.

This piece covers computer architecture at the instruction set architecture (ISA) and system design levels. Starting with foundation material on data representation and computer arithmetic, the book moves through the basic components of a computer architecture, covering topics at increasing levels of complexity up through CISC, network architecture, and parallel architecture. The authors have adopted the use of a SPARC-subset for an instructional ISA called ARC (A RISC Computer), which is carried through the mainstream of the book, and is complemented with platform-independent software tools that simulate the ARC ISA as well as the MIPS and x86 (Pentium) ISAs. FEATURES/BENEFITS *Choice of the instruction set architecture (ISA). *The mainstream ISA ARC is a subset of the commercial SPARC, which strikes a balance between the complexity of a real-world architecture and the need for a simple instructional ISA. *Companion Website http: //www.prenhall.com/murdocca *Software available on Companion Website. *Assembles and simulates program execution on SPARC-subset (ARC), MIPS, and Intel ISAs. Simulators and assemblers run an PCs, Macs, and Unix. *Over 400 Adobe Acrobat slides *Simplif This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201436647
• ISBN13: 9780201436648
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 553 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.8" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

A Must book!

Though this book is not as popular as H & P, but it gives a concrete illustrate examples on how the problems can been conquerred and resolved (you can check both authors backgrounds to find out why). Any serious computer sciences or computer engineering majors should have this book as their standard reference book on the shelf in case anybody asking any nuts and bots questions regarding CA.

WOW! I love this book!

I you are serious about learning what actually happens inside the computer and how it works, how your C program is translated into machine code - from C -> Preprocessor -> Assembler -> Object Code and how the computer executes the object code. + a lot of hardware stuff, digital logic, binary arithmetic and more. This is THE BOOK!<p>You might need to read the chapters in this book a couple of times to fully understand it. But...

Excellent source for part II of GRE Subject Computer Science

I am preparing GRE subject computer science and I needed couple of books to refresh my knowledge... Well, this one pretty well covers ALL aspects of the part II (Computer Organization and Architecture) which is 20% of the exam. I guess the book is usefull as a textbook for undergraduate studies as well but since I did not graduated in USA, I don't really know.So, if you don't have any similar book and you want to prepare GRE...

Good book

PROS: Well written. Easy to understand writing style. Decent examples. Well organized. Up to date (copyright is 2000). Font size is nice for reading (hey, I think that's important).CONS: First edition. Answers to problems NOT given in back of book. (Professor for my class distributed answers photocopied from elsewhere) Also, a lot of the problems are confusing and can really only be solved by glancing at the answers...