Essentials of Computer Architecture

Name: Essentials of Computer Architecture
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ISBN: 9780131491793

ISBN-10: 0131491792

ISBN-13: 9780131491793

Edition: 2005

Authors: Douglas E. Comer

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Book details

List price: $179.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 8/13/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English




Introduction and overview



Fundamentals of digital logic



Data and program representation



The variety of processors and computational engines



Processor types and instruction sets



Operand addressing and instruction representation



CPUs : microcode, protection, and processor modes



Assembly languages and programming paradigm



Memory and storage



Physical memory and physical addressing



Virtual memory technologies and virtual addressing



Caches and caching



Input/output concepts and terminology



Buses and bus architectures



Programmed and interrupt-driven I/O



A programmer's view of devices, I/O, and buffering



Parallelism



Pipelining



Assessing performance



Architecture examples and hierarchy



Lab exercises for a computer architecture course