Description

Features

• Comprehensive coverage of computer hardware and architecture basics – Uses a clear, approachable writing style to introduce students to multilevel machines, CPU organization, gates and Boolean algebra, microarchitecture, ISA level, flow of controls, virtual memory, and assembly language.

• Accessible to all students – Covers common devices in a practical manner rather than with an abstract discussion of theory and concepts.

New To This Edition

• Updated and expanded coverage throughout – Incorporates the most recent trends, tools, and techniques, including PCI express, modern multicomputer systems, and network processors.

• Newest input/output devices – Covers today’s most popular I/O devices, including digital cameras, DSL, and Internet over cable.

• Introduction to assembly language programming – Provides a multi-layered introduction via a detailed appendix and accompanying CD-ROM with a simulator and tools for hands-on training.

• Timely case studies – Features detailed case studies on the Pentium 4, UltraSPARC III, Itanium 2, and 8051 (used in embedded systems).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Structured Computer Organization

Chapter 2. Processors

Chapter 3. Gates and Boolean Algebra

Chapter 4. An Example Microarchitecture

Chapter 5. Overview of the ISA Level

Chapter 6. Virtual Memory

Chapter 7. Introduction to Assembly Language

Courses

Computer Organization and Architecture  (Computer Science)

Next Edition(s)

• Structured Computer Organization, 6/E
  Tanenbaum & Austin
  ©2013  |  Prentice Hall  |  Cloth; 800 pp  |  Estimated Availability : 03/23/2012
  ISBN-10: 0132916525  |  ISBN-13: 9780132916523
  Suggested retail price: $156.00  Net price: $117.00  (What's this?)Brief Description  | 

  

  Structured Computer Organization, specifically written for undergraduate students, is a best-selling guide that provides an accessible introduction to computer hardware and architecture. This text will also serve as a useful resource for all computer professionals and engineers who need an overview or introduction to computer architecture.
  
  This book takes a modern structured, layered approach to understanding computer systems. It's highly accessible - and it's been thoroughly updated to reflect today's most critical new technologies and the latest developments in computer organization and architecture. Tanenbaum’s renowned writing style and painstaking research make this one of the most accessible and accurate books available, maintaining the author’s popular method of presenting a computer as a series of layers, each one built upon the ones below it, and understandable as a separate entity.
  

  More Info
  

Author Bios

Downloadable Instructor Resources

Show All Downloadable Files

Hide All Downloadable Files

|

Help Downloading Files

On-line instructor's Resources, 5/E
Tanenbaum
©2006  |  Prentice Hall  |  On-line Supplement  |  Live
ISBN-10: 0131859579  |  ISBN-13: 9780131859579

Show Downloadable Files

Hide Downloadable Files

|

More Info

Back to top

Back to top

Give your students a choice! PearsonChoices products are designed to give your students more value and flexibility by letting them choose from a variety of text and media formats to best match their learning style and their budget.

Pearson Higher Education offers special pricing when you choose to package your text with other student resources. If you're interested in creating a cost-saving package for your students, see the Packages Tab.

• Pearson Custom Computer Science
  Pearson
  ©2009  |  Prentice Hall  |  On-line Supplement  |  Live
  ISBN-10: 0135075483  |  ISBN-13: 9780135075487
  This online resource is available at no cost at http://www.pearsoncustom.com/custom-library/pearson-custom-computer-science.
  Brief Description  | 

  

  Create your own customized textbook for introductory computing, Visual Basic, introduction to programming, data structures, and computer ethics using this exciting new custom publishing program.

   

  With Pearson Custom Computer Science, you can select just the chapters you need, in the sequence you want, from 27 best-selling textbooks from Pearson Education’s Prentice Hall and Addison Wesley. Using our online book-building system, you have direct control over the content and cost of your course materials. Add chapters on programming logic, Alice or Python to help introduce your students to programming. Develop your own custom text for non-majors courses with chapters on scripting languages, Alice, Python, labs, and other topics. Incorporate coverage of computer ethics topics throughout your custom book. Remove chapters you don’t cover from your favorite Java or C++ text. Or change the sequence of the presentation of objects (early or late) to suit your teaching approach.

   

  The choice is yours. Your book matches your course organization exactly, and your students pay only for the chapters you choose.
  
  Program features include:

  • You’re in full control of the cost. Custom CS texts are $8.00 + $.09/pg for black and white, $8.00 + $.14/pg for color.
  • Your custom book is sequentially paginated, with a custom index and table of contents.
  • Your cover and title page can be customized with your name, school and course information.
  • Include your own materials - up to 20% of the custom book can be your own writing or come from outside sources such as course materials, questions and syllabi. We handle all necessary permissions.
  • Free evaluation copy! Create your custom text online and request a free evaluation copy of your book in 7-10 days for black and white content, or 10-15 days for color.
  • 25-copy minimum for a new order; 10 copies for a re-order.

  Your custom book is published in 4-6 weeks (for black and white, 6-8 for color) from the time we receive your order from your bookstore. If you are including outside material, please allow 8-10 weeks.

  More Info
  

• Structured Computer Organization, CourseSmart eTextbook, 5/E
  Tanenbaum
  ©2006  |  Prentice Hall  |  Electronic Book; 800 pp  |  Available
  ISBN-10: 0131328980  |  ISBN-13: 9780131328983
  Online purchase price: $63.99Brief Description  | 

  

  CourseSmart eTextbooks are a creative digital solution that offers the freedom and convenience of online, offline, and mobile access using a single platform. With a CourseSmart eTextbook, students can:

  • search the text

  • make notes online

  • print out reading assignments that incorporate lecture notes

  • bookmark important passages for later review

  • save money. As an alternative to purchasing the print textbook, students can subscribe to the same content online for a significant discount off the suggested list price of the print text.

  For more information, or to subscribe to the CourseSmart eTextbook, visit www.coursesmart.com (for customers in U.S. and Canada) or www.coursesmart.co.uk (for customers in Europe, Middle East, and Africa).

  More Info  |  Students, buy access
  

This product is a member of the following series. Click on the series name to see the full list of products in the series.

• Pearson Custom Computer Science

Pearson Higher Education offers special pricing when you choose to package your text with other student resources. If you're interested in creating a cost-saving package for your students, browse our available packages below, or contact your Pearson Higher Education representative to create your own package.

Package ISBN-10: 0132966913 | ISBN-13: 9780132966917
©2011 | Instock (Additional assembly time required)
Suggested retail price: $280.87  Buy from myPearsonStore
Net price: $210.65  (What's this?)
This package contains: