Modern computer architecture and organization : learn x86, ARM, and RISC-V architectures and the design of smartphones, PCs, and cloud servers /
Jim Ledin
- Second Edition
- Birmingham, UK : Packt Publishing, c2022.
- xxxvi, 628 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Expert insight .
Includes index.
Introducing Computer Architecture -- Digital Logic -- Processor Elements -- Computer System Components -- Hardware-Software Interface -- Specialized Computing Domains -- Processor and Memory Architectures -- Performance-Enhancing Techniques -- Specialized Processor Extensions -- Modern Processor Architectures and Instruction Sets -- The RISC-V Architecture and Instruction Set -- Processor Virtualization -- Domain-Specific Computer Architectures -- Cybersecurity and Confidential Computing Architectures -- Blockchain and Bitcoin Mining Architectures -- Self-Driving Vehicle Architectures -- Quantum Computing and Other Future Directions in Computer Architectures -- Appendix.
This book will teach you the fundamentals of computer systems including transistors, logic gates, sequential logic, and instruction pipelines. 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 write a quantum computing program and run it on an actual quantum computer. This edition has been updated to cover the architecture and design principles underlying the important domains of cybersecurity, blockchain and bitcoin mining, and self-driving vehicles. By the end of this book, you will have a thorough understanding of modern processors and computer architecture and the future directions these technologies are likely to take.