TY - BOOK AU - Null, Linda AU - Lobur, Julia TI - The Essentials of computer organization and architecture SN - 9781284123036 AV - QA 76.9.C643 .N85 2019 PY - 2019/// CY - Burlington, MA PB - Jone and Bartlett Learning KW - COMPUTER ORGANIZATION N1 - Includes index; Chapter 1. Introduction -- 2. Data representation in computer systems -- 3. Boolean algebra and digital logic -- 4. MARIE : an introduction to a simple computer -- 5. A closer look at instruction set architectures -- 6. Memory -- 7. Input/output systems -- 8. System software -- 9. Alternative architectures -- 10. Topics in embedded systems -- 11. Performance measurement and analysis N2 - This title presents computing systems as a series of layers, taking a bottoms -up approach by starting with low-level hardware and progressing to higher-level software. It is geared towards the computer scientist, as opposed to the computer engineer ER -