Introduction to Digital Computer Design - Softcover

Radhakrishnan Rajaraman

9788120334090: Introduction to Digital Computer Design

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ISBN 10: 8120334094 ISBN 13: 9788120334090

Publisher: Prentice-Hall of India Pvt.Ltd, 2008

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Now in its fifth edition, this textbook is intended for an introductory course in digital computer design for B.Sc. students of computer science, B.Tech. students of computer science and engineering, and BCA/MCA students of computer applications.

The first part of the book presents the basic tools and develops procedures suitable for the design of digital circuits and small digital systems. It equips students with a firm understanding of logic principles before they move on to study the intricacies of logic organisation and the architecture of computers, covered in the the second part of the book.

Besides discussing data representation, arithmetic operations, Boolean algebra and its application in designing combinatorial and sequential switching circuits, the book introduces the Algorithmic State Machines which are used to develop a hardware description language for the design of digital systems.

The organisation of a small hypothetical computer is described to illustrate how instruction sets are evolved. Real computers are described and compared with the hypothetical computer. After discussing the features of a CPU, I/O devices and I/O organisation, cache and virtual memory, the book concludes with a new chapter on the use of parallelism to enhance computer speed.

In addition, this fifth edition includes new material on CMOS gates, MSI/ALU and Pentium5 architecture; and the chapter on cache and virtual memory has been rewritten.

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About the Author

V. Rajaraman, Ph.D. (Wisconsin), is Honorary Professor in the Super-computer Education and Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Earlier, Prof. Rajaraman was Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at IIT Kanpur (1963–1982), Professor of Computer Science, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (1982–1994) and IBM Professor of Information Technology, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (1994–2001).A pioneer in computer science education and research in India, Prof. Rajaraman was awarded the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 1976. He is also the recipient of Homi Bhabha Prize by U.G.C., Om Prakash Basin award, ISTE award for excellence in teaching computer engineering, Rustom Choksi award, Zaheer Medal by the Indian National Science Academy and Padma Bhushan by the President of India in 1998. An author of several well established and highly successful computer books, Prof. Rajaraman has also published many research papers in national and international journals.

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