Computer Organization and Embedded Systems

The sixth edition of Computer Organization and Embedded Systems covers the key topics of the subject. 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 computer engineering students and computer science specialists.

Key Features

• Examines four popular processors like Altera's Nios II, Freescale's ColdFire, ARM, and Intels IA-32 in detail 
•  Extensively covers embedded systems, arguing that many devices previously not thought of as computers do, in fact, have computers in them
• Discusses Microcontrollers and system-on-a-chip implementations
• Contains graduated difficulty problems at the end of each chapter classified as Easy, Medium, or Difficult, allowing instructors to assign problems based on difficulty level

1. Basic Structure of Computers
2. Instruction Set Architecture
3. Basic Input/Output
4. Software
5. Basic Processing Unit
6. Pipelining
7. Input/output Organization
8. The Memory System
9. Arithmetic
10. Embedded Systems
11. System-On-A-Chip -- A Case Study
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