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Modern Computer Architecture and Organization

By : Jim Ledin
Book Image

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

  1. Download the Anaconda installer from https://www.anaconda.com/distribution/. Select the Python 3.7 version, in the appropriate 32-bit or 64-bit variant for your host computer.
  2. Run the Anaconda installer and accept the defaults. Close the installer after it completes.
  3. Start Anaconda from the Windows search box by typing anaconda and clicking on Anaconda prompt when it appears in the search list. A console window will appear.
  4. In the Anaconda prompt, create and activate a virtual environment named qiskitenv with the following commands. Install any recommended packages:
    conda create -n qiskitenv python=3
    conda activate qiskitenv
  5. Install Qiskit and the visualization dependencies with these commands:
    pip install qiskit
    pip install qiskit-terra[visualization]
  6. This completes the installation.