Computer Organization and Embedded Systems, 6th Edition

The sixth edition of this book covers the key topics in computer organization and embedded systems. It presents hardware design principles and shows how hardware design is influenced by the requirements of software. The book carefully explains the main principles supported by examples drawn from commercially available processors.

The book is suitable for undergraduate electrical and computer engineering majors and computer science specialists. It is intended for a first course in computer organization and embedded systems.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Basic Structure Of Computers
Chapter 2 Instruction Set Architecture
Chapter 3 Basic Input/Output
Chapter 4 Software
Chapter 5 Basic Processing Unit
Chapter 6 Pipelining
Chapter 7 Input/Output Organization
Chapter 8 The Memory System
Chapter 9 Arithmetic
Chapter 10 Embedded Systems
Chapter 11 System-On-A-Chip—A Case Study
Chapter 12 Parallel Processing And Performance
Appendix A: Logic Circuits
Appendix B: The Altera Nios Ii Processor
Appendix C: The Coldfire Processor
Appendix D: The Arm Processor
Appendix E: The Intel Ia-32 Architecture