You're reading from Modern Computer Architecture and Organization – Second Edition Learn x86, ARM, and RISC-V architectures and the design of smartphones, PCs, and cloud servers

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Published in May 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803234519

Length 666 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Introducing Computer Architecture FREE CHAPTER

2. Digital Logic

3. Processor Elements

4. Computer System Components

5. Hardware-Software Interface

6. Specialized Computing Domains

7. Processor and Memory Architectures

8. Performance-Enhancing Techniques

9. Specialized Processor Extensions

10. Modern Processor Architectures and Instruction Sets

11. The RISC-V Architecture and Instruction Set

12. Processor Virtualization

13. Domain-Specific Computer Architectures

14. Cybersecurity and Confidential Computing Architectures

15. Blockchain and Bitcoin Mining Architectures

16. Self-Driving Vehicle Architectures

17. Quantum Computing and Other Future Directions in Computer Architectures

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

19. Index

Appendix

The boot process

The procedure for booting a system image varies depending on the partition style of the mass storage device containing the image and the security features enforced during boot. The goal of the boot process is to bring up the system following power application and initialize the operating system, leaving the computer in a known state and ready to perform useful work.

Beginning in the early 1980s, the standard disk partition format was called the master boot record (MBR). An MBR partition has a boot sector located at the logical beginning of its storage space. The MBR boot sector contains information describing the device’s logical partitions. Each partition contains a filesystem organized as a tree structure of directories and the files within them.

Due to the fixed format of MBR data structures, an MBR storage device can contain a maximum of four logical partitions and can be no larger than 2 TB in size, equal to 2³² 512-byte data sectors. These limits...

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