• ISBN13: 9780198070887
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Engineering
• Publisher: Oxford UP
• Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
• Publication Date: January 1, 2011
• Pages: 740
• Original Price: INR 1250.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 1021 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Engineering (General)

The book is divided into five parts. The first chapters explore the scope of the subject and the first part of the book deals with the systems programming backgrounds providing an overview of system software. It then delves into machine structures and library structures. The second part of the book deals with low level translators describing in detail topics such machine and mnemonic languages, assembly languages, macro languages, macro programming, assemblers linkers, loaders, and object code translators. The third and fourth parts of the book deal with compilers and operating systems respectively. The last part of this book deals with different system development tools. Components such as editors and debuggers are discussed in detail in this section along with a chapter on system administration.
Programming examples and algorithms have been included in the chapters wherever applicable. Conceptual and analytical chapter-end exercises have been included which judges the students' understanding of the concepts learnt in the chapter. Appendices at the end of the book comprise important instruction sets and conversion tables for ready reference.

Srimanta Pal is currently Associate Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta. A Ph D from IIT Kharagpur, he obtained an MBA from Jadavpur University after completing his M Tech from ISI Calcutta. He has a teaching experience of close to two decades in prestigious institutions such as Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta & Jadavpur University. He is the author of Numerical Methods and Mathematical Methods published by Oxford University Press in 2009. He has been a reviewer for a variety of international journals and has contributed numerous papers to national and international journals of repute.