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Computer Organization and Design. The Hardware/Software Interface.

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We use this book in a hardware course at the University of Oslo. It is easy to read and describes every part of a computer. The book is detailed - when you are finished with it you will know enough to design a computer. (Given enough time and money, that is. :-) I can't think of anything negative to say about this book. If you want/need to know how the internals of a computer works then you really need it!

This book is one of the standard textbooks for Computer Organization. However the approach of instruction taken by the authors is unconventional, and a reader might or might not find it useful. Here are the points that will be useful to prospective buyers: 1. If this book was ASSIGNED as a course requirement, have no fear. With a good instructor in class as your primary source, the book is fairly easy to understand. Besides, the exercises are well ranked in order of difficulty, and sufficiently varied across levels of difficulty. And they are usually interesting. 2. If you wish to use this as a reference work, be warned. The style is strange, and upside down in places. For example, "examples" are given with wrong usage of Assembly "instructions", because the book has not "got there yet". Later, you are given the "correct version". Some people might like this, some may not. 3. If you are a professional and want a refresher, be warned again. The book labours through pages and pages of simple worked exercises, involving nothing more complicated than a times b divided by c, and then jumps into implementational details. 4. One thing the book must be praised for is its thoroughness. 5. Essentially, the authors have intended that ANYONE not even remotely familiar with the subject should be able to tackle it from the ground up. Thus you have concepts introduced in an EXTREMELY step by step fashion, and no one will complain that the book is "difficult to read", per se. But the authors carry it a little too far, and those readers used to traditional textbook techniques of explanation, will be lost in many places. Those who have no problems with this might complain that the book is too long in places. The most satisfied reader will be one who has no idea of what computers are, and was thrown into this course all of a sudden, and who has a lot of free time, and who has an instructor to guide him through the book and the course.

Patterson & Hennessy are the leaders in computer literature and this book is one of the reasons. I purchased the book as an optional text for a college course, but it has quickly become my personal choice for a main text. This book gives great in-depth analysis of the levels of computer organization like no other book uncovered thus far. A must buy if studying this material in college or if looking for a complete reference text.

Das Buch ist nicht nur für Leute vom Fach zu verstehen, sondern auch von Einsteigern. Anhand von anschaulichen Beispielen wird Neueingeführtes erklärt. Das Buch ist so gut geschrieben, daß es sogar von Leuten gut verstanden wird, deren Muttersprache nicht Englisch ist. Die Übungen, welche im Buch zur Vertiefung dienen sollen, sind mit Hilfe des Buches lösbar. Es werden noch Adressen angeboten, wo man noch zusätzliche Literatur finden kann. Das Buch liest sich schon fast wie ein Roman und ist auch beim ersten Lesen gut verständlich. Das Buch kann man nur weiterempfehlen und zwar nicht nur für Fortgeschrittene.

"Computer Organization and Design" ist ein sehr gutes Buch zur Einfuehrung in die Technische Informatik. Es wird ausfuehrlich und anhand vieler, einfach zu verstehenden und Beispielen moderne Entwurfsentscheidungen illustriert. So bekommt man schnell eine Vostellung von dem dem, wie ein Computer im einzelnen funktioniert. Zudem zeichnet sich das Buch durch gute Uebungen aus, die die Themen weiter vertiefen. Auch die Ergaenzungen zu diesem Buch im Internet (aktuell) sollten nicht unerwaehnt bleiben. Man merkt sofort, dass die Autoren vom Fach sind. Zum Einstieg garantiert das richtige Buch.

This book kicks butt. It's got everything most programmers could
possibly want to know about how the machine underneath works, and more.

It covers circuit logic, hardware arithmetic, how a processor works . . .
It answered all of my "I wonder how that happens in the machine" questions.

However, I doubt you'd really want to read it unless you're in a
computer architecture class. I don't even mind the ridiculous price; it's
one of the few textbooks I feel is worth it.

These two great minds have presented their work in a neat at thorough fashion.

Every chapter builds on the last with emphasis towards critical elements in computer hardware.

I thoroughly enjoyed the book, and the class I took at UCSB!

The book is quite okay. Intresting at its best and quite confusing at its worst. I think the section on virutal memory and cache is the most confusing of all. Other parts, like performance etc. are very well written. But one factor that goes against the book is that sometimes it delves into too much detail which may not be necesary.

Gokul

If this book is a required reading in a college junior level computer architechture design course, then this book excellently serves that purpose. However, as a reference, this book is poor considering the slow pace at which concepts are developed.

Can u tell me if this text book has a detail answer book to its exercis ? I need to know... Please mail me about my question... Thank you so much