This well-respected text for a first level course on computer organization has been thoroughly revised and updated. "Computer Organization" is suitable for a one-semester course in engineering or computer science programs and has a good mix of hardware and software oriented topics. The goal of the book is to illustrate the principles of computer organization by using a number of extensive examples drawn from commercially available computers. The authors feel this approach motivates the students and is the most practical. The machines discussed in Hamacher et. al. are the Motorola 680X0 and 683XX families, Intel 80X86 and Pentium families, ARM family, Sun Microsystems Sparc family, and DEC(Compaq) Alpha family. The 68000, Pentium, and ARM are used as detailed examples early in the book.
1 Basic Structure of Computers2 Machine Instructions and Programs3 ARM, Motorola, and Intel Instruction Sets4 Input/Output Organization5 The Memory System6 Arithmetic7 Basic Processing Unit8 Pipelining 9 Embedded Systems10 Computer Peripherals11 Processor Families12 Large Computer SystemsAppendix A Logic CircuitsAppendix B ARM Instruction SetAppendix C Motorola 68000Instruction SetAppendix D Intel IA-32 Instruction Set Appendix E Character Codes and Number Conversion