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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__8_expr_arm64.s file contains the following example solution to this exercise:

.text
.global _start
_start:
    // Print the leading output string
    ldr     x1, =msg1
    mov     x2, #msg1_len
    bl      print_string
    // Compute [(129 – 66) * (445 + 136)] / 3
    mov     x0, #129
    sub     x0, x0, #66
    mov     x1, #445
    add     x1, x1, #136
    mul     x0, x1, x0
    mov     x1, #3
    udiv    x0, x0, x1
    // Print the upper byte of the result
    mov     x19, x0
    lsr     x0, x0, #8
    bl      print_byte
    // Print the lower byte of the result    
    mov     x0, x19
    bl      print_byte
    
    // Print the trailng output string
    ldr     x1, =msg2
    mov     x2, #msg2_len
    bl      print_string
    
    // Exit the program with syscall 93, returning status 0
    mov     x0, #0
    mov     x8, #93
    svc     0
// Print a string; x1=string address, x2=string length
print_string:
    mov...