Fundamentals of Computer Architecture and Design

Description

This textbook provides semester-length coverage of computer architecture and design, providing a strong foundation for students to understand modern computer system architecture and to apply these insights and principles to future computer designs.   It is based on the author’s decades of industrial experience with computer architecture and design, as well as with teaching students focused on pursuing careers in computer engineering. Unlike a number of existing textbooks for this course, this one focuses not only on CPU architecture, but also covers in great detail in system buses, peripherals and memories.  This book teaches every element in a computing system in two steps. First, it introduces the functionality of each topic (and subtopics) and then goes into “from-scratch design” of a particular digital block from its architectural specifications using timing diagrams.  The author describes how the data-path of a certain digital block is generated using timing diagrams, a method which most textbooks do not cover, but is valuable in actual practice.  In the end, the user is ready to use both the design methodology and the basic computing building blocks presented in the book to be able to produce industrial-strength designs Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Review of Combinational Circuits (Ahmet Bindal)....Pages 1-65 Review of Sequential Logic Circuits (Ahmet Bindal)....Pages 67-111 Review of Asynchronous Logic Circuits (Ahmet Bindal)....Pages 113-131 System Bus (Ahmet Bindal)....Pages 133-168 Memory Circuits and Systems (Ahmet Bindal)....Pages 169-274 Central Processing Unit (Ahmet Bindal)....Pages 275-375 System Peripherals (Ahmet Bindal)....Pages 377-454 Special Topics (Ahmet Bindal)....Pages 455-489 Back Matter ....Pages 491-533