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

Exercises

Download and install the current version of VirtualBox. Download, install, and bring up Ubuntu Linux as a virtual machine within VirtualBox. Connect the guest OS to the internet using a bridged network adapter. Configure and enable clipboard sharing and file sharing between the Ubuntu guest and your host operating system.
Within the Ubuntu operating system you installed in Exercise 1, install VirtualBox and then install and bring up a virtual machine version of FreeDOS, available from https://www.freedos.org/download/.
Verify that DOS commands, such as echo Hello World! and mem, perform properly in the FreeDOS virtual machine. After completing this exercise, you will have implemented an instance of nested virtualization.
Create two separate copies of your Ubuntu guest machine in your host system’s VirtualBox environment. Configure both Ubuntu guests to connect to the VirtualBox internal network. Set up the two machines with compatible IP...

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