Essentials of Computer Architecture

<p>This easy-to-read textbook provides an introduction to computer architecture focusing on the essential aspects of hardware that programmers need to know. Written from a programmer's point of view <strong>Essentials of Computer Architecture Third Edition </strong> covers the three key aspects of architecture: processors physical and virtual memories and input-output (I/O) systems.</p><p>This third edition is updated in view of advances in the field. Most students only have experience with high-level programming languages and almost no experience tinkering with electronics and hardware. As such this text is revised to follow a top-down approach moving from discussions on how a compiler transforms a source program into binary code and data to explanations of how a computer represents data and code in binary.</p><p>Additional chapters cover parallelism and data pipelining assessing the performance of computer systems and the important topic of power and energy consumption. Exclusive to this third edition a new chapter explains multicore processors and how coherence hardware provides a consistent view of the values in memory even though each core has its own cache.</p><p>Suitable for a one-semester undergraduate course this clear concise and easy-to-read textbook offers an ideal introduction to computer architecture for students studying computer programming.</p>