It is designed to take professional practice "under the hood" of the PC and provides them with an understanding of the basics of the complex machine that has become such a pervasive part of our everyday life. Not only shows how to design computer hardware, provides an understanding of the total machine, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses, explaining how to handle memory and how to write efficient assembly code that interacts with and take best advantage of the underlying hardware. The book is divided into three main sections: Part 1: Hardware Fundamentals and Digital Design Part 2: Assembly Language Programming Part 3: Computer Architecture DVD of the text will contain the following: * Code source files for all the sample code used in the text * The demo version of two different processor simulator * Video lectures from industry leaders includes several major topics discussed in the text.