Structured Computer Organization

Structured Computer Organization, specifically written for undergraduate students, is a best-selling guide that provides an accessible introduction to computer hardware and architecture. This text will also serve as a useful resource for all computer professionals and engineers who need an overview or introduction to computer architecture.

This book takes a modern structured, layered approach to understanding computer systems. It's highly accessible - and it's been thoroughly updated to reflect today's most critical new technologies and the latest developments in computer organization and architecture. Tanenbaum€s renowned writing style and painstaking research make this one of the most accessible and accurate books available, maintaining the author€s popular method of presenting a computer as a series of layers, each one built upon the ones below it, and understandable as a separate entity.