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ISBN 10: 0321340795

ISBN 13: 978-0321340795 

Author: Rob Williams 

The first Computer Architecture text to recognize that computers are now predinantly used in a networking environment, fully updated to include new technologies and with an all new chapter on Distributed Computing.

Table of contents:

Part 1 – Basic Functions and Facilities of a Computer

• Introduction: The Hardware–Software Interface

• Computer Systems – The Importance of Networking

• Hardware and Software – Mutual Dependence

• Programming Your Way into Hardware – VHDL, a Language for Electronic Engineers

• Voice, Image and Data – Technological Convergence

• Windowing Interfaces – WIMPs

• The Global Internet – Connecting All the Networks

• Using the PC – A Case Study; More Reasons to Study CSA

The von Neumann Inheritance

• Stored Program Control – General-Purpose Machines

• Instruction Codes – Machine Action Repertoire

• Linking – Bringing It All Together

• Interpreters – Executing High-Level Commands

• Code Sharing and Reuse – Let’s Not Write It All Again!

• Data Codes – Numeric and Character

• The Operating System – Unix and Windows

• Client–Server Computing – The Way of the Net

• Reconfigurable Hardware – An Alternative to Fetch–Execute

Functional Units and the Fetch–Execute Cycle

• The Naming of Parts – CPU, Memory, IO Units

• The CPU Fetch–Execute Cycle – High-Speed Tedium

• System Bus – Synchronous or Asynchronous?

• System Clock – Instruction Cycle Timing

• Pre-Fetching – Early Efforts to Speed Things Up

• Memory Length – Address Width

• Endian-ness – Microsoft vs. Unix, or Intel vs. Motorola?

• Simple Input–Output – Parallel Ports

Building Computers from Logic: The Control Unit

• Electronic Lego and Logic – The Advantage of Modular Units

• Basic Logic Gates – Truth Tables for AND, OR, XOR and NOT

• Truth Tables and Multiplexers – A Simple but Effective Design Tool

• Programmable Logic – Reconfigurable Logic Chips

• Traffic Light Controllers – Impossible to Avoid!

• Circuit Implementation from Truth Tables – Some Practical Tips

• Decoder Logic – Essential for Control Units and Memories

• CPU Control Unit – The "Brain"

• Washing Machine Controllers – A Simple CU

• RISC vs. CISC Decoding – In Search of Faster Computers

Building Computers from Logic: The ALU

• Binary Addition – Half Adders, Full Adders, Parallel Adders

• Binary Subtraction – Using Two’s Complement Integer Format

• Binary Shifting – Barrel Shifter

• Integer Multiplication – Shifting and Adding

• Floating-Point Numbers – From Very, Very Large to Very, Very Small

Building Computers from Logic: The Memory

• Data Storage – One Bit at a Time

• Memory Devices – Memory Modules for Computers

• Static Memory – A Lot of Fast Flip-Flops

• Dynamic Memory – A Touch of Analogue Amid the Digital

• Page Access Memories – EDO and SDRAM

• Memory Mapping – Addressing and Decoding

• IO Port Mapping – Integration vs. Differentiation

The Intel Pentium CPU

• The Pentium – A High-Performance Microprocessor

• CPU Registers – Temporary Store for Data and Address Variables

• Instruction Set – Introduction to the Basic Pentium Set

• Structure of Instructions – How the CU Sees It

• CPU Status Flags – Very Short-Term Memory

• Addressing Modes – Building Effective Addresses

• Execution Pipelines – The RISC Speedup Technique

• Pentium 4 – Extensions

• Microsoft Developer Studio – Using the Debugger

Subroutines

• The Purpose of Subroutines – Saving Space and Effort

• Return Address – Introducing the Stack

• Using Subroutines – HLL Programming

• The Stack – Essential to Most Operations

• Passing Parameters – Localizing a Subroutine

• Stack Frame – All the Local Variables

• Interrupt Service Routines – Hardware-Invoked Subroutines

• Accessing Operating System Routines – Late Binding

Part 2 – Networking and Increased Complexity

• The Programmer’s Viewpoint

• Local Area Networks

• Wide Area Networks

• Other Networks

• Introduction to Operating Systems

• Windows XP

• Filing Systems

• Visual Output

• RISC Processors: ARM and SPARC

• Embedded Systems – Cross-Development Techniques

• VLIW Processors: The EPIC Itanium

• Parallel Processing

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