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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

Install the free Visual Studio Community edition, available at https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/, on a Windows PC. Once installation is complete, open the Visual Studio IDE and select Get Tools and Features… under the Tools menu. Install the Desktop development with C++ workload.
In the Windows search box in the Task bar, begin typing Developer Command Prompt for VS 2022. When the app appears in the search menu, select it to open Command Prompt.

Create a file named hello_x86.asm with the content shown in the source listing in the x86 assembly language section of this chapter.

Build the program using the command shown in the x86 assembly language section of this chapter and run it. Verify that the output Hello, Computer Architect! appears on the screen.
Write an x86 assembly language program that computes the following expression and prints the result as a hexadecimal number: [(129 – 66) × (445 + 136)] ...

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