Contains:

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION, Basic concepts and the evolution of computers, Performance issues.

PART TWO: THE COMPUTER SYSTEM, Examination of the higher-level operation & interconnection of computers, Cache memory, Internal memory, External memory, Input/Output, Support from the operating system.

PART THREE: ARITHMETIC AND LOGIC, Number systems, The arithmetic of computers, Digital logic.

PART FOUR: THE CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT, Instruction sets: Characteristics and operation, Instruction sets: Addressing modes and formats, Processor structure and function, Reduced instruction set computers, Instruction level parallelism & superscalar processors.

PART FIVE: PARALLEL ORGANIZATION, Parallel processing, Multi-core computers, General-purpose graphics processing units.

PART SIX: THE CONTROL UNIT, Operation of the control unit, Microprogrammable control, Tasks for teaching computer organization and architecture, Assembly language and related issues, References, Index.