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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

  1. Repeat steps 1-5 from Exercise 3 to create the quantum circuit.
  2. Import your IBMQ account information and list the available quantum computing providers:
    from qiskit import IBMQ
    IBMQ.load_account()
    provider = IBMQ.get_provider(group='open')
    provider.backends()
  3. If you visit the IBM Quantum Experience home page at https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/, you will be able to see the length of the job queues for the available quantum computers. Select a system with sufficient qubits for your circuit and a short job queue. This example assumes the ibmq_essex computer is your choice.
  4. Add your job to the queue and monitor its status with these commands. The shots parameter provides a count of the number of times the circuit will be executed to collect statistical results:
    backend = provider.get_backend('ibmq_essex')
    from qiskit.tools.monitor import job_monitor
    job_exp = execute(qc, backend=backend, shots=1024)
    job_monitor(job_exp)

    After the run completes...