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Structured Computer
Organization
The Fourth Edition of this
best-selling introduction to computer hardware and architecture has been heavily revised
to reflect the latest changes in the rapidly changing computer industry. Professor
Tanenbaum has maintained his popular method of presenting the computer as a hierarchy of
levels, each with a well-defined function. The book is written in a style and level of
detail that covers all the major areas, but is still accessible to a broad range of
readers.
New to this Edition
The running examples
throughout the book are now the Pentium II, Sun UltraSPARC II, and the Java Virtual
Machine including Sun's hardware Java chip that implements JVM.
Input/output devices have
been updated to emphasize modern technology such as RAID disks, CD-Recordables, DVD, and
color printers.
Modern computer buses such as
the PCI bus and USB bus have been added to the digital logic level.
The microarchitecture level
has been completely rewritten and updated as follows:
The detailed microprogrammed
machine example illustrating data path control is now based on a subset of the Java
Virtual Machine.
Design cost and performance
tradeoffs are illustrated with a series of detailed examples culminating with the Mic-4
example that uses a seven-stage pipeline to introduce how modern computers such as the
Pentium II work
A new section on improving
performance focuses on the most recent techniques such as caching, branch prediction,
out-of-order execution, and speculative execution.
The instruction set
architecture level covers machine language using the new running examples.
The operating system level
includes examples for the Pentium II (Windows NT) and UltraSPARC II (UNIX).
New material on dynamic
linking has been added to the assembly language level.
The parallel computer
architectures material has been completely rewritten and expanded to include
multiprocessors (UMA, NUMA, and COMA) and multicomputers (MPP and COW).
All code examples have been
rewritten in Java.
Presents a wealth of new
end-of-chapter problems.
The website for this book
(http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/sco4) includes all the figures in PostScript file format,
as well as a simulator and software tools.
664 pages