Schaum's Outline of Computer Architecture

by Nick Carter, Nicholas Carter

Overview

• A problem/solution manual, integrating general principles and laboratory exercises, that provides students with the hands-on experience needed to master the basics of modern computer system design
• Features more than 200 detailed problems, with step-by-step solutions; many detailed graphics and charts; chapter summaries with additional "rapid-review" questions; and expert sidebar tips
• Describes analytical methods for quantifying real-world design choices regarding instruction sets, pipelining, cache, memory, I/O, and other critical hardware and software elements involved in building computers
• An ideal educational resource for the more than 70,000 undergraduate and graduate students who, each year, enroll in computer architecture and related courses

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071362078
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	12/26/2001
Series:	Schaum's Outline Series
Edition description:	List
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	8.10(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Nick Carter, Ph.D. (Urbana, IL) is an assistant professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He holds a doctorate in computer science from MIT, has worked at IBM’s Yorktown, NY, research facility and was the memory system architect on MIT’s prestigious M-Machine project.