Structured Computer Organization
(5th Edition) by Andrew S.
Tanenbaum
An Excellent Intro Computer Engineering Text
This book takes a modern structured, layered approach to understanding
computer systems. Its highly accessible - and its been thoroughly updated
to reflect todays most critical new technologies and the latest
developments in computer organization and architecture. Tanenbaum’s
renowned writing style and painstaking research make this one of the most
accessible and accurate books available, maintaining the author’s popular
method of presenting a computer as a series of layers, each one built upon
the ones below it, and understandable as a separate entity. A CD-ROM for
assembly language programmers is available for teachers. For all
computer professionals and engineers who need an overview or
introduction to computer architecture.

Personal Review: Structured Computer Organization (5th
Edition) by Andrew S. Tanenbaum
It was back in 1987. Our computer architecture teacher presented us with
the second edition of this book (1984 ed.). The book opened a new
understanding on systems technology and machine sequencing for me. I
even designed in paper a version of Mic1 microarchitecture to solve a
problem we had with a hand held device.
This book will provide you with a good and basic background on machine
sequencing and multilevel models. Use this as a base for your TCP/IP or
stack communication protocol study (see my review of TCP/IP Illustrated,
Volume 2 - Implementation).
Highlights (fifth edition, 2006):
* Multilevel vision of machines (a very important basic topic), pages 2-7
* Principal metric (prefixes) units, page 46
* Bits, bytes, byte ordering on memory, pages 69-73
* Binary numbers on Apendix A and B
* Binary codes and Communication equipments, pages 117-130
* Basic transistor switching logic and logical design, chapter 3 complete
* Java virtual machine and interpreter design (beautiful description!),
chapter 4 complete
* The DVD includes a graphic microarchitecture simulator and Java byte-
code assembler (back in 1988 I started my own bipolar npn
transistor/resistance/prototype board based Microarchitecture! but it was
so large and I only complete a 4 bit ALU and 8 register data path). Now
(2008) you can enjoy and program a Java version with the DVD material
In resume, this book as long as TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2 -
Implementation, is a good (like a toy) self learning path in machine
organization and interconnection.
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