Computer Organization and Design (Second Edition)

Author: Li Wenbing
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Publish Date: 2002-06-01
Features: This book is one of the series textbooks for college students majoring in computer science and its related fields, and can also be used as a textbook for undergraduate students. The book introduces the principles of computer organization in three levels: fundamentals, components, and systems. The fundamental part includes an overview, common number systems, methods of machine number operations, encoding and code checking, Boolean algebra and logic gates, and the analysis and design of combinational logic circuits. The component part includes basic devices, main memory, arithmetic unit, instruction system, and controller. The system part includes memory architecture, peripheral devices, and data transmission methods between the host and peripherals. The book is rich in content, highlights key points, easy to understand, and illustrated with abundant examples and diagrams. Each chapter is followed by exercises. This book is suitable as a textbook for the course on computer organization principles for computer science and its related majors, as well as for teacher training colleges, television universities, higher vocational colleges, and self-study programs in higher education. It can also serve as a supplementary textbook for the hardware section of the software proficiency examination.