COMPUTER SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

Name: COMPUTER SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
Rating: 4.411764621734619 (17 reviews)

RAO, P.V.S.

Dec 2008 · PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.

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This highly acclaimed, well established, book now in its fifth edition, is intended for an introductory course in digital computer design for B.Sc. students of computer science, B.Tech. students of computer science and engineering, and BCA/MCA students of computer applications. A knowledge of programming in C or Java would be useful to give the student a proper perspective to appreciate the development of the subject.

The first part of the book presents the basic tools and developes procedures suitable for the design of digital circuits and small digital systems. It equips students with a firm understanding of logic principles before they study the intricacies of logic organization and architecture of computers in the second part.

Besides discussing data representation, arithmetic operations, Boolean algebra and its application in designing combinatorial and sequential switching circuits, the book introduces the Algorithmic State Machines which are used to develop a hardware description language for the design of digital systems.

The organization of a small hypothetical computer is described to illustrate how instruction sets are evolved. Real computers (namely, Pentium and MIPs machines) are described and compared with the hypothetical computer. After discussing the features of a CPU, I/O devices and I/O organization, cache and virtual memory, the book concludes with a new chapter on the use of parallelism to enhance the speed of computers. Besides, the fifth edition has new material in CMOS gates, MSI/ALU and Pentium5 architecture. The chapter on Cache and Virtual Memory has been rewritten.

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P.V.S. RAO, Formerly, Senior Professor and Head of the Computer Systems and Communications Group, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, is currently Adviser to Satyam Global Lifenet, Hyderabad. Earlier, he was with Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Ltd. He also served as Adviser to Tata Infotech and Tata Consulting Services (TCS). Professor Rao has been deeply involved in research and development in computer systems and information technology for well over 50 years. He is the Editor of the Journal of the Computer Society of India. Professor Rao is the recipient of the Padmashri Award (1987), the Om Prakash Bhasin Award (1987), the VASVIK (1987), and the Vikram Sarabhai Research Award (1976). He was awarded the Millennium Medal of The Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. A distinguished Fellow of the IETE, Professor Rao has presented several papers at various conferences held in India and abroad and has also published a number of articles in national and international journals.

P.V.S. RAO, Formerly, Senior Professor and Head of the Computer Systems and Communications Group, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, is currently Adviser to Satyam Global Lifenet, Hyderabad. Earlier, he was with Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Ltd. He also served as Adviser to...

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