Computation Structures

Ward, Stephen A.; Halstead, Robert H.

ISBN 10: 0070681473 / ISBN 13: 9780070681477

Published by McGraw-Hill, 1989

About this Item

The book is complete and readable, with all pages and cover intact. Dust jacket, shrink wrap, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may have light notes, highlighting, or minor water exposure, but nothing that affects readability. May be an ex-library copy and could include library markings or stickers.

Seller Inventory # BSM.OU9M

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Computation Structures
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070681473
• ISBN 13: 9780070681477
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: acceptable

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Synopsis

Computation Structures focuses on computer architecture as a complicated problem in digital design. As such, the initial sections discuss the basic principles of designing digital circuits and systems. The context is subsequently used to discuss more and more advanced ideas without a lot of confusing structure. For example, pipelining is initially discussed in terms of speeding up simple arithmetic circuits, which allows the reader to focus on the conceptual issues of pipelining rather than the embedded problem. Using this aggregative approach, the authors build their way up through a series of simple machines to begin talking about processes and process semantics. In addition, Computation Structures contains a nice section on microcode, which is seldom discussed in most books. The text is clear and the exercises well chosen.