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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. In your host system VirtualBox, open the Settings dialog for the Ubuntu VM you set up in Exercise 1 and select the Network settings. Set the Attached to: network type to Internal, then click OK.
  2. Right-click on the Ubuntu VM in the VirtualBox manager and select Clone... from the context menu. Click Next in the Clone VM menu. Leave Full clone selected and click Clone. Wait for the cloning process to complete.
  3. Open Command Prompt on your host system and navigate to the installation directory for VirtualBox. On Windows, this command takes you to the following default installation location:
    cd "\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox"
  4. Start a DHCP server for the intnet VirtualBox network with this command:
    VBoxManage dhcpserver add --netname intnet --ip 192.168.10.1 --netmask 255.255.255.0 --lowerip 192.168.10.100 --upperip 192.168.10.199 --enable
  5. Start both of the VMs. Based on the DHCP server settings recommended in the previous step, the VMs should be assigned...