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An introductory text that helps students in developing good understanding of a complete computer system through an integrated approach to hardware, software and processor design. Numerous solved and unsolved problems as well as case studies on commercial processors enables user to be tune with the current developments. Key Features:Follows a design oriented approach Concept building through discussions on general processor Separate chapter dedicated to Case studies on commercial processors Custom processor NICE used to build concept in all chapters Tutorial based treatment-deals with important concepts through solved examples Dedicated website http://www.mhhe.com/jotwani/cso contains material for instructors and learners Rich Pedagogy includes: 71 Solved Examples373 Review Questions 164 Exercises 10 Programming exercisesTable of Content: Chapter 1: Overview Chapter 2: Representation of Data in Binary Chapter 3 : Hardware Building Blocks Chapter 4 : Processor Instruction Set-I Chapter 5: Processor Instruction Set-II Chapter 6: Processor Design Chapter 7: Control Unit Chapter 8: Computer Arithmetic Chapter 9: Memory Organization Chapter 10: Input and Output Organization Chapter 11: User Interaction Chapter 12: Secondary Storage and Other Devices Chapter 13: Parallelism Chapter 14 : Multiprocessor Systems Chapter 15: Software Chapter 16: Case Studies Appendix A: Binary Encoding of NICE Machine Instructions Index