V. Carl Hamacher (Toronto, Canada) Professor of Computer Engineering at Queens University, Canada. Zvonko Vranesic (Toronto, Canada) Professor of Computer Engineering at Toronto University, Canada. Safwat Zaky (Toronto, Canada) Professor of Computer Engineering at Toronto University, Canada.

• 1 Basic Structure of Computers 2 Instruction Set Architecture 3 Basic Input/Output 4 Software 5 Basic Processing Unit 6 Pipelining 7 Input/output Organization 8 The Memory System 9 Arithmetic 10 Embedded Systems 11 System-On-A-Chip -- A Case Study Appendix A Logic Circuits Appendix B The Altera Nios II Processor Appendix C The ColdFire Processor Appendix D The ARM Processor Appendix E The Intel IA-32 Architecture