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Modern Computer Architecture and Organization

A no-nonsense, practical guide to help you learn the current and future processor and computer architectures that will enable you to design computer systems and develop better software applications across a variety of domains.

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Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

18h40m

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book For?

This book is for software developers, computer engineering students, system designers, reverse engineers, and anyone looking to understand the architecture and design principles underlying modern computer systems from tiny embedded devices to warehouse-size cloud server farms. A general understanding of computer processors is helpful but not required.

Book content

chapters 18h40m total length

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

Future Directions in Computer Architectures

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