Computer Arithmetic: Algorithms and Hardware Designs by Behrooz Parhami is a textbook focused on computer arithmetic and hardware design. It provides a thorough and balanced treatment of algorithms and hardware for computer computation, suitable for advanced courses in digital design techniques and computer architecture.
The book covers topics such as number representations, basic operations, floating-point arithmetic, and function evaluation. In addition, advanced hardware techniques are discussed for high throughput, energy efficiency, fault tolerance, and reconfigurable computing modules. The second edition includes extensive updates and a new chapter on reconfigurable arithmetic on FPGAs.
Features and content
- Clear division into 28 chapters, tailored to lectures
- Focus on both the theoretical foundations of computer arithmetic and practical hardware designs
- Extensive examples, worked cases, and 717 practice problems
- Consistent notation and connections to related areas in computer engineering
- Includes instructor materials with solutions
Product specifications
- Author: Behrooz Parhami, Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication date: 2009-10-28
- Number of pages: 672
- ISBN: 9780195328486
- Theme: Digital and Information technology: general topics
- BISAC: COMPUTERS / Computer Science