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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

Exercise 2

With the project from Exercise 1 still open, locate the hello.c file in the src folder in the Project window. Right-click on the file and rename it to hello.s. Open hello.s in the editor and delete the entire contents. Insert the assembly language program shown in the RISC-V assembly language section in this chapter. Perform a clean and then rebuild the project (press Ctrl + 9 to initiate the clean operation). Select Debug under the Run menu. Once the debugger starts, open windows to display the hello.s source file, the Disassembly window, and the Registers window. Expand the Registers tree to display the RISC-V processor registers. Single-step through the program and verify the text Hello, Computer Architect! appears in the console window.