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Modern Computer Architecture and Organization

By : Jim Ledin
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Modern Computer Architecture and Organization

By: Jim Ledin

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Fundamentals of Computer Architecture
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Section 2: Processor Architectures and Instruction Sets
14
Section 3: Applications of Computer Architecture

Exercise 5

Install the free Android Studio IDE, available at https://developer.android.com/studio/. After installation is complete, open the Android Studio IDE and select SDK Manager under the Tools menu. In the Settings for New Projects dialog, select the SDK Tools tab and check the NDK option, which may be called NDK (Side by side). Complete the installation of the NDK (NDK means native development kit).

Locate the following files under the SDK installation directory (the default location is %LOCALAPPDATA%\Android) and add their directories to your PATH environment variable: arm-linux-androideabi-as.exe and adb.exe. Hint: the following command works for one specific version of Android Studio (your path may vary):

set PATH=%PATH%;%LOCALAPPDATA%\Android\Sdk\ndk\20.1.5948944\toolchains\arm-linux-androideabi-4.9\prebuilt\windows-x86_64\bin;%LOCALAPPDATA%\Android\Sdk\platform-tools

Create a file named hello_arm.s with the content shown in the source listing in the The 32-bit...