Essentials of computer architecture

This book includes an index.

1. Introduction and Overview Part 1. Basics 2. Fundamentals of Digital Logic 3. Data and Program Representation Part II. Processors 4. The Variety Of Processors And Computational Engines 5. Processor Types and Instruction Sets 6. Data Paths and Instruction Execution 7. Operand Addressing and Instruction Representation 8. CPUs: Microcode, Protection, And Processor Modes 9. Assembly Languages And Programming Paradigm Part 3. Memories 10. Memory and Storage 11. Physical Memory And Physical Addressing 12. Caches and Caching 13. Virtual Memory Technologies And Virtual Addressing Part 4 Input And Output 14. Input /Output Concepts And Terminology 15. Buses and Bus Architectures 16. Programmed And Interrupt-Driven I/O 17. A Programmer’s View Of Devices, I/O, And Buffering Part 5 Advanced Topics 18. Parallelism 19. Data Pipelining 20. Power and Energy 21. Assessing Performance 22. Architecture Examples and Hierarchy 23. Hardware Modularity Appendix 1. Lab Exercises For A Computer Architecture Course Appendix 2. Rules For Boolean Algebra Simplification Appendix 3. A Quick Introduction To x86 Assembly Language Appendix 4. ARM Register Definitions And Calling Sequence