Essentials of computer architecture:

This easy-to-read textbook provides an introduction to computer architecture, focusing on the essential aspects of hardware that programmers need to know. Written from a programmer’s point of view, Essentials of Computer Architecture, Third Edition, covers the three key aspects of architecture: proc...

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Main Author: Comer, Douglas 1949- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton ; London ; New York CRC Press 2024
Edition:Third edition
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Summary:This easy-to-read textbook provides an introduction to computer architecture, focusing on the essential aspects of hardware that programmers need to know. Written from a programmer’s point of view, Essentials of Computer Architecture, Third Edition, covers the three key aspects of architecture: processors, physical and virtual memories, and input-output (I/O) systems.This third edition is updated in view of advances in the field. Most students only have experience with high-level programming languages, and almost no experience tinkering with electronics and hardware. As such, this text is revised to follow a top-down approach, moving from discussions on how a compiler transforms a source program into binary code and data, to explanations of how a computer represents data and code in binary.Additional chapters cover parallelism and data pipelining, assessing the performance of computer systems, and the important topic of power and energy consumption. Exclusive to this third edition, a new chapter explains multicore processors and how coherence hardware provides a consistent view of the values in memory even though each core has its own cache.Suitable for a one-semester undergraduate course, this clear, concise, and easy-to-read textbook offers an ideal introduction to computer architecture for students studying computer programming
Item Description:Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview; Chapter 2 Program Interpretation and Transformation; Chapter 3 Data and Program Representation; Chapter 4 A High-Level Overview of Processors; Chapter 5 Instruction Stes and Operands; Chapter 6 Operand Addressing and Operand Types; Chapter 7 Assembly Languages and Programming Paradigm; Chapter 8 Main Memory and Memory Addressing; Chapter 9 Virtual Memory Technologies and Virtual Addressing; Chapter 10 Caches and Caching; Chapter 11 Storage: File Systems, Blocks and SSDs; Chapter 12 A Programmer's View of Devices, I/O, and Buffering; Chapter 13 Buses and Bus Architectures; Chapter 14 Programming Devices and Interrupt-Driven I/O; Chapter 15 Data Paths and Instruction Execution; Chapter 16 CPUs: Micrcode, Protection, and Processor Modes; Chapter 17 Parallelism; Chapter 18 Data Pipelining ; Chapter 19 Assessing Performance; Chapter 20 Multicore Processors; Chapter 21 Power and Energy; Chapter 22 Building Blocks: Transistors, Gates and Clocks; Chapter 23 Hardware Modularity ; Appendix 1 Rules for Boolean Algebra Simplification; Appendix 2 A Quick Introduction to x86 Assembly Language; Appendix 3 ARM Register Definitions and Calling Sequence; Appendix 4 Lab Exercises for a Computer Architecture Course
Physical Description:xxii, 517 Seiten Illustrationen 1161 gr
ISBN:9781032727196
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