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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)
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Section 1: Fundamentals of Computer Architecture
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Section 2: Processor Architectures and Instruction Sets
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Section 3: Applications of Computer Architecture

Summary

This chapter presented the concepts underlying processor virtualization and explained the many benefits to individual users and large organizations achieved through the effective use of virtualization. We examined the principal virtualization techniques and the open source and commercial tools that implement them.

We also saw the benefits of virtualization in the deployment of real-world software applications in cloud environments .

You should now understand the technology and benefits associated with processor virtualization and how modern processor ISAs support virtualization at the instruction set level. We learned about several open source and commercial tools providing virtualization capabilities. You should now understand how virtualization can be used to build and deploy scalable applications in cloud computing environments.

In the next chapter, we will look at the architecture of some specific application categories, including mobile devices, personal computers...