Computer Systems Organization and Architecture provides up-to-date coverage of fundamental concepts for the design of computer and their subsystems.

Professor John Carpinelli presents material in this book in the same way he does in his classroom by using simple examples to help readers understand concepts without getting bogged down in details. To make the material accessible to all readers, he has included two examples of increasing complexity: the Very Simple CPU which contains four instructions to illustrate very simple CPU design, and the somewhat more complex Relatively Simple CPU that builds upon the same design techniques and introduces some more advanced techniques.