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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
8
Section 2: Processor Architectures and Instruction Sets
14
Section 3: Applications of Computer Architecture

Answer

Create your assembly language source file. The Ex__5_hello_arm.s file contains the following example solution to this exercise:

.text
.global _start
_start:
    // Print the message to file 1 (stdout) with syscall 4
    mov     r0, #1
    ldr     r1, =msg
    mov     r2, #msg_len
    mov     r7, #4
    svc     0
    // Exit the program with syscall 1, returning status 0
    mov     r0, #0
    mov     r7, #1
    svc     0
        
.data
msg:
    .ascii      "Hello, Computer Architect!"
msg_len = . - msg

Build the executable with these commands:

arm-linux-androideabi-as -al=Ex__5_hello_arm.lst -o Ex__5_hello_arm.o Ex__5_hello_arm.s
arm-linux-androideabi-ld -o Ex__5_hello_arm Ex__5_hello_arm.o

This is the output produced by copying the program to an Android device and running it:

C:\>adb devices
* daemon not running; starting now at tcp:5037
* daemon started successfully
List of devices attached
9826f541374f4b4a68      device
C:\>adb push Ex__5_hello_arm...