PART ONE: OVERVIEW
Chapter 1: Basic Concepts and Computer Evolution
Chapter 2: Performance Issues
PART TWO: THE COMPUTER SYSTEM
Chapter 3: A Top-Level View of Computer Function and Interconnection
Chapter 4: Cache Memory
Chapter 5: Internal Memory Technology
Chapter 6: External Memory
Chapter 7: Input/Output
Chapter 8: Operating System Support
PART THREE: ARITHMETIC AND LOGIC
Chapter 9: Number Systems
Chapter 10: Computer Arithmetic
Chapter 11: Digital Logic
PART FOUR: THE CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT
Chapter 12: Instruction Sets: Characteristics and Functions
Chapter 13: Instruction Sets: Addressing Modes and Formats
Chapter 14: Processor Structure and Function
Chapter 15: Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISCs)
Chapter 16: Instruction-Level Parallelism and Superscalar Processors
PART FIVE: PARALLEL ORGANIZATION
Chapter 17: Parallel Processing
Chapter 18: Multicore Computers
Chapter 19: General-Purpose Graphic Processing Units
PART SIX THE CONTROL UNIT
Chapter 20: Control Unit Operation
Chapter 21: Microprogrammed Control"
1. Chapter on GPUs (General Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units), highlighting one of the most important new developments in computer science
2. Heterogeneous Multicore Processors are surveyed in a new section of the text
3. Embedded Systems and Microcontrollers overview has been greatly expanded and revised
4. Cloud Computing is newly discussed in the text
5. System Performance issues coverage has been revised, expanded, and reorganized for a clearer and more thorough treatment throughout the text
6. Flash Memory coverage has been revised and expanded with new information, including a new discussion of technology and organization of flash memory for internal and external memory
7. Nonvolatile RAM technologies like STT-RAM, PCRAM, and ReRAM are newly covered
8. Intel Core Microarchitecture continues to be used as a major example throughout with information reflecting newer Intel systems such as Intel Core Microarchitecture