TY  - BOOK
AU  - Comer,Douglas
TI  - Essentials of computer architecture
SN  - 817758443x
U1  - 004.22 
PY  - 2007///c
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Pearson Education Private Limited
KW  - Computer architecture
KW  - Computer Science
N1  - Include bibliography references and index; Chapter 1: Introduction and overview----------------------
Chapter 2: Fundamentals of digital logic----------------------
Chapter 3: Data and program representation----------------------
Chapter 4: The variety of processors and computational engines------------------------------
Chapter 5: Processor types and instruction sets-------------------------
Chapter 6: Operand addressing and instruction representation-----------------------
Chapter 7: CPUs: microcode, protection, and processor modes-------------------
Chapter 8: Assembly languages and programming paradigm------------------------
Chapter 9: Memory and storage-----------------------
Chapter 10: Physical memory and physical addressing------------------------
Chapter 11: Virtual memory technologies and virtual addressing--------------------------
Chapter 12: Caches and caching--------------------------
Chapter 13: Input/output concepts and terminology--------------------
Chapter 14: Buses and bus architectures-------------------------------
Chapter 15: Programmed and interrupt-driven I/O-------------------------
Chapter 16: A programmer's view of devices, I/O, and buffering---------------------------
Chapter 17: Parallelism----------------------------
Chapter 18: Pipelining----------------------------
Chapter 19: Assessing performance----------------------------
Chapter 20: Architecture examples and hierarchy-------------------------
N2  - This text focuses on the essentials of computer architecture for programmers. It covers all aspects from the low-level building blocks to system-level architectures, and succinctly explains the interface between hardware and software. Sections on assembly language, virtual memory, caching, microcode, and device driver software provide critical insight into how programmers can design efficient, elegant, and reliable
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