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Modern Computer Architecture and Organization. Learn x86, ARM, and RISC-V architectures and the design of smartphones, PCs, and cloud servers

Modern Computer Architecture and Organization. Learn x86, ARM, and RISC-V architectures and the design of smartphones, PCs, and cloud servers

Jim Ledin

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Are you a software developer, systems designer, or computer architecture student looking for a methodical introduction to digital device architectures but overwhelmed by their complexity? This book will help you to learn how modern computer systems work, from the lowest level of transistor switching to the macro view of collaborating multiprocessor servers. You'll gain unique insights into the internal behavior of processors that execute the code developed in high-level languages and enable you to design more efficient and scalable software systems.
The book will teach you the fundamentals of computer systems including transistors, logic gates, sequential logic, and instruction operations. You will learn details of modern processor architectures and instruction sets including x86, x64, ARM, and RISC-V. You will see how to implement a RISC-V processor in a low-cost FPGA board and how to write a quantum computing program and run it on an actual quantum computer. By the end of this book, you will have a thorough understanding of modern processor and computer architectures and the future directions these architectures are likely to take.
  • 1. Introducing Computer Architecture
  • 2. Digital Logic
  • 3. Processor Elements
  • 4. Computer System Components
  • 5. Hardware-Software Interface
  • 6. Specialized Computing Domains
  • 7. Processor and Memory Architectures
  • 8. Performance-Enhancing Techniques
  • 9. Specialized Processor Extensions
  • 10. Modern Processor Architectures and Instruction Sets
  • 11. The RISC-V Architecture and Instruction Set
  • 12. Processor Virtualization
  • 13. Domain-Specific Computer Architectures
  • 14. Future Directions in Computer Architectures
  • Title: Modern Computer Architecture and Organization. Learn x86, ARM, and RISC-V architectures and the design of smartphones, PCs, and cloud servers
  • Author: Jim Ledin
  • Original title: Modern Computer Architecture and Organization. Learn x86, ARM, and RISC-V architectures and the design of smartphones, PCs, and cloud servers
  • ISBN: 9781838987107, 9781838987107
  • Date of issue: 2020-04-30
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_2acu
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing