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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

Adders

General-purpose processors usually support the addition operation for performing calculations on data values and, separately, to manage the instruction pointer. Following the execution of each instruction, the instruction pointer increments to the next instruction location. When the processor supports multi-word instructions, the updated instruction pointer must be set to its current value plus the number of words in the just-completed instruction.

A simple adder circuit adds two data bits plus an incoming carry and produces a one-bit sum and a carry output. This circuit, shown in Figure 2.15, is called a full adder because it includes the incoming carry in the calculation. A half adder adds only the two data bits without an incoming carry:

Figure 2.15: Full adder circuit

Figure 2.15: Full adder circuit

The full adder uses logic gates to produce its output as follows. The sum bit S is 1 only if the total number of 1 bits in the group A, B, Cin is an odd number. Otherwise, S...