Table of Contents

Preface; Preface to the First Edition; Acknowledgements; 1 EVOLUTION OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS; 2 COMPUTER SYSTEM DESIGN: HIERARCHICAL LEVELS; 3 INFORMATION REPRESENTATION; 4 CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT (CPU); 5 CONTROLLER DESIGN; 6 MEMORY SUBSYSTEM; 7 SECONDARY STORAGE; 8 INPUT-OUTPUT DEVICES; 9 INPUT-OUTPUT PROCESSING; 10 COMPUTER SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE; 11 COMPUTER NETWORKING, INTERNET, AND WIRELESS NETWORKS; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author

P. PAL CHAUDHURI (Ph.D.) is Professor Emeritus at Cellular Automata Research Lab (CARL), a research lab established by Alumnus Software, Salt Lake, Kolkata. Earlier, he was Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, Howrah, West Bengal. He was also Visiting Professor, Intel Development Labs, Intel Corporation, USA.