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From: mark@hubcap.UUCP (Mark Smotherman)
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Subject: Re: Computer Organization Text Needed
Summary: other books
Keywords: book, ~Mano
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Date: 2 Sep 88 13:30:26 GMT
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Does your course emphasize digital logic design, the instruction set
processor (ISP) level, or the processor-memory-switch (PMS) level?
Your textbook selection obviously depends on this.

Mano has four books out.  Maybe one of the other three would suit your
needs better.  I've never taught out of any of his books, but I've
often placed them on reserve.  Student feedback has been positive; they
often say he's very readable.  Anyway here goes:


Some digital design oriented texts:

* Mano, Computer Engineering: Hardware Design, Prentice-Hall.
  a 1988 book that I believe replaces his 1979 Digital Logic and
  Computer Design text and includes ISP material that his 1984 
  Digital Design text does not (correct me here if I'm wrong).
  includes simplification by Karnaugh maps (16 pages worth),
  gets into some ISP and PMS issues.

* others ... (my collection is incomplete)


Some typical "computer organization" texts:

* Hamacher, Vranesic, and Zaky, Computer Organization, McGraw-Hill, 2nd ed.
  digital logic design relegated to an appendix (i.e. treated as
  a prerequisite course), ISP and PMS issues are well covered.

* Hayes, Computer Architecture and Organization, McGraw-Hill, 2nd ed.
  more emphasis on digital design (chapters devoted to it), esp. good
  on control unit design, however it doesn't have the simplification
  material you seem to want, good PMS coverage, adequate but somewhat
  limited ISP coverage.

* Rafiquzzaman and Chandra, Modern Computer Architecture, West Publishing.
  competes with Hamacher, aimed at same balance.

* Stallings, Computer Organization and Architecture, Macmillan.
  a hybrid of Hamacher and Hayes with doses of Bell, Mudge, and McNamara
  and recent RISC papers thrown in to boot.  digital design in an
  appendix.

* Tanenbaum, Structured Computer Organization, Prentice-Hall.
  (don't have a copy but understand people like it for its layered
  approach; I believe the first layer consists of digital gates)


Some typical "computer architecture" (ISP and PMS only) texts:

* Gorsline, Computer Organization, Prentice-Hall

* Baer, Computer Systems Architecture

* Stone, Computer Architecture, 2nd ed.
  (I think it leaves out digital design - don't have a copy handy)

* Siewiorek, Bell, and Newell, Computer Structures, McGraw-Hill
  (update of the classic B&N)
-- 
Mark Smotherman, Comp. Sci. Dept., Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634
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