Thoroughly revised and updated, The Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture, Second Edition is a comprehensive resource which addresses all of the important organization and architecture topics yet is concise enough to move through in a single semester. The text covers such topics as digital logic, data representation, machine-level language, general organization, assembly language programming, CPU organization, memory organization, and input/output devices, as well as a new chapter on Embedded Systems. Correlated to the ACM-IEEE Computing Curricula Guidelines, The Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture, Second Edition is the forefront text for your Computer Organization and Architecture course. 

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