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Tanenbaum","Structured Computer Organization, Fourth Edition, presents computer hardware and architecture as a hierarchy of well-defined levels. After covering system organization and processors, memories, and I/O devices, it progresses through digital logic, microarchitecture, instruction set architecture, operating system, and assembly language, concluding with parallel computer architectures. This edition updates running examples to Pentium II, Sun UltraSPARC II, and Java Virtual Machine, revises I/O technologies and buses, expands multiprocessor topics, and rewrites all code examples in Java, with extensive end-of-chapter exercises and teaching resources.","Book Resources  \nOverview  \nStructured Computer Organization  \nFourth Edition  \nAndrew S. Tanenbaum  \nWith contributions from James R. Goodman  \nStructured Computer Organization is the fourth edition of this best-selling introduction to computer hardware and architecture. It has been heavily revised to reflect the latest changes in the rapidly changing computer industry. Professor Tanenbaum has maintained his popular method of presenting the computer as a hierarchy of levels, each with a well-defined function. The book is written in a style and level of detail that covers all the major areas, but is still accessible to a broad range of readers.  \nAfter an introductory chapter and a chapter about system organization (processors, memories, and I/O devices), we come to the core of the book:  \nchapters on the digital logic level, the microarchitecture level, the instructionset architecture level, the operating system level, and the assembly language level. Finally, there is a chapter on the increasingly important topic of parallel computer architectures.  \nNew to this edition:  \n∙ The running examples throughout the book are now the Pentium II, Sun UltraSPARC II, and Java Virtual Machine, inlcuding Sun's hardware Java chip that implements JVM  \n∙ The input/output devices discussed in the computer systems organization chapter have been updated to emphasize modern technology such as RAID disks, CD-recordables, DVD, and color printers  \n∙ Modern computer buses, such as the PCI bus and USB bus have been added to the digital logic level.  \n∙ The microarchitecture level has been completely rewritten and updated as follows:  \no The detailed microprogrammed machine example illustrating data path control is now based on a subset of the Java Virtual Machine  \no Design cost and performance tradeoffs are illustrated with a series of detailed examples culminating with the Mic-4 example that uses a seven-stage pipeline to introduce how modern computers such as the Pentium II work  \no A new section on improving performance focuses on the mostrecent techniques such as caching, branch prediction, out-oforder execution, and speculative execution  \n∙ The instruction architecture level covers machine language using the new running examples.  \n∙ The operating system level includes examples for the Pentium II (Windows NT) and the UltraSPARC II (UNIX) .  \n∙ New material on dynamic linking has been added to the assembly language level .  \n∙ The parallel computer architecture chapter has been completely rewritten and expanded to include a detailed treatment of multiprocessors (UMA, NUMA, and COMA), and multicomputers (MPPand COW) .  \n∙ All code examples have been rewritten in Java.  \nWith nearly 300 end-of-chapter [exercises. an](exercises. an) up-to-date annotated bibliography, figure files available for downloading, a Mic-1 simulator for student use, and a new instructor's manual, this book is ideal for courses in computer architecture or assembly language programming.  \nBook Resources  \nPreface  \nThe first three editions of this book were based on the idea that a computer can be regarded as a hierarchy of levels, each one performing some welldefined function. This fundamental concept is as valid today as it was when the first edition came out, so it has been retained as the basis for the fourth edition. As in the first three editions, the digital logic level, the microarchitecture level, the instruction set architecture level, the operating system machine level, and the assembly language level are all discussed in detail (although we have changed some of the names to reflect modern practice) .  \nAlthough the basic structure has been maintained, this fourth edition contains many changes, both small and large, that bring it up to date in the rapidly changing computer industry. For example, all the code examples, which were in Pascal, have been rewritten in Java, reflecting the popularity of Java in the computer world. 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