Computer Systems Architecture: a Networking Approach, 2nd Edition

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Features

•     Uses a real processor (Pentium) – this allows most of the practical work to be carried out at home on the student's own equipment. 
•       Academically friendly in structure and contents. Built around the author’s own weekly need for material to use in lab sessions as well as lectures. Well tested coursework assignments, examination/test papers, worksheets and OHPs available through the web site.
•       Introduces very relevant ideas and concepts regarding data transmission and communication, in preparation for subsequent modules on networking and web communications – popular with students, who enthusiastically greet any mention of mobile telephony or broadband networking!  
•    Good selection of chapter-end exercises, with answer commentaries at the end of the book.
•       Many modern, commercial examples to stimulate the reader and show the subject in action.
• CD with additional resources included as part of the package.

Description

The first Computer Architecture text to recognize that computers are now predinantly used in a networking environment, fully updated to include new technologies and with an all new chapter on Distributed Computing.

Sample Content

Table of Contents

Preface

Preface to the first edition

Recommended lab sessions

Part 1 Basic functions and facilities of a computer

1 Introduction: the hardware-software interface

2 The von Neumann inheritance

3 Functional units and the fetch-execute cycle

4 Building computers from logic: the control unit

5 Building computers from logic: the ALU

6 Building computers from logic: the memory

7 The Intel Pentium CPU

8 Subroutines

9 Simple input and output

10 Serial connections

11 Parallel connections

12 The memory hierarchy

Part 2 Networking and increased complexity

13 The programmer's viewpoint

14 Local area networks

15 Wide area networks

16 Other networks

17 Introduction to operating systems

18 Windows XP

19 Filing systems

20 Visual output

21 RISC processors: ARM and SPARC

22 VLIW processors: the EPIC Itanium

23 Parallel processing

Appendix: MS Visual Studo 8, Express Edition

Glossary

Answers to end-of-chapter questions

References

Index

Updates

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