Understanding Computer Organization: A Guide to Principles Across RISC-V, ARM Cortex, and Intel Architectures

This textbook unlocks modern computer organizations' secrets, with real-world examples from RISC-V, ARM, and Intel-based computer systems. The guide provides a comprehensive yet accessible explanation of fundamental principles and components and serves as a gateway to mastering the interplay between hardware and software. It demystifies complex concepts and provides clear explanations and practical insights into their roles in computing systems. 

Topics and features:

  • Provides comprehensive coverage of computer organization principles across three major architectures (RISC-V, ARM Cortex, and Intel), ensuring a broad understanding of modern computing
  • Includes numerous practical explanations using real-world examples from each architecture, offering hands-on insights into memory-mapped I/O, interrupts, DMA, and various memory technologies
  • Presents detailed exploration of diverse components such as interrupts and their usage, interrupt controllers, DMA transfers, and DMA controllers
  • Offers exploration of DDRx SDRAM memory, SDRAM controllers, DIMM modules, caches, and virtual memory

Concise and yet thorough, this useful textbook/guide equips readers with the knowledge and skills needed to navigate the complexities of computer organization, making it essential reading for students and professionals.

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Understanding Computer Organization: A Guide to Principles Across RISC-V, ARM Cortex, and Intel Architectures

This textbook unlocks modern computer organizations' secrets, with real-world examples from RISC-V, ARM, and Intel-based computer systems. The guide provides a comprehensive yet accessible explanation of fundamental principles and components and serves as a gateway to mastering the interplay between hardware and software. It demystifies complex concepts and provides clear explanations and practical insights into their roles in computing systems. 

Topics and features:

  • Provides comprehensive coverage of computer organization principles across three major architectures (RISC-V, ARM Cortex, and Intel), ensuring a broad understanding of modern computing
  • Includes numerous practical explanations using real-world examples from each architecture, offering hands-on insights into memory-mapped I/O, interrupts, DMA, and various memory technologies
  • Presents detailed exploration of diverse components such as interrupts and their usage, interrupt controllers, DMA transfers, and DMA controllers
  • Offers exploration of DDRx SDRAM memory, SDRAM controllers, DIMM modules, caches, and virtual memory

Concise and yet thorough, this useful textbook/guide equips readers with the knowledge and skills needed to navigate the complexities of computer organization, making it essential reading for students and professionals.

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Understanding Computer Organization: A Guide to Principles Across RISC-V, ARM Cortex, and Intel Architectures

Understanding Computer Organization: A Guide to Principles Across RISC-V, ARM Cortex, and Intel Architectures

by Patricio Bulic
Understanding Computer Organization: A Guide to Principles Across RISC-V, ARM Cortex, and Intel Architectures

Understanding Computer Organization: A Guide to Principles Across RISC-V, ARM Cortex, and Intel Architectures

by Patricio Bulic

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Overview

This textbook unlocks modern computer organizations' secrets, with real-world examples from RISC-V, ARM, and Intel-based computer systems. The guide provides a comprehensive yet accessible explanation of fundamental principles and components and serves as a gateway to mastering the interplay between hardware and software. It demystifies complex concepts and provides clear explanations and practical insights into their roles in computing systems. 

Topics and features:

  • Provides comprehensive coverage of computer organization principles across three major architectures (RISC-V, ARM Cortex, and Intel), ensuring a broad understanding of modern computing
  • Includes numerous practical explanations using real-world examples from each architecture, offering hands-on insights into memory-mapped I/O, interrupts, DMA, and various memory technologies
  • Presents detailed exploration of diverse components such as interrupts and their usage, interrupt controllers, DMA transfers, and DMA controllers
  • Offers exploration of DDRx SDRAM memory, SDRAM controllers, DIMM modules, caches, and virtual memory

Concise and yet thorough, this useful textbook/guide equips readers with the knowledge and skills needed to navigate the complexities of computer organization, making it essential reading for students and professionals.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783031580758
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date: 07/05/2024
Series: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 84 MB
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About the Author

Patricio Bulic is associate professor of the faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.  He co-authored the successful Springer textbook, Introduction to Parallel Computing.

Table of Contents

1. Main Memory.- 2. Buses.- 3. Interrupts and interrupt handling.- 4. Direct memory access.

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