COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE: A MINIMALIST PERSPECTIVE

Gilreath, William F., Laplante, Philip A.

ISBN 10: 1402074166 / ISBN 13: 9781402074165

Edité par Springer Science + Business Media, Inc, New York, 2003

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Octavo, xv, 220 pages. In Good condition. Sun-faded sky blue spine with white lettering. Boards have mild shelving wear, sun-toning along head edges and spine, a dent along front board head corner, a torn library sticker adhesively attached to rear board, a tear from rear board to spine, and mild wear along spine head and tail. Textblock has mild wear along fore edges of pages 133-138, a Date Due library card on rear pastedown, a tear along rear pastedown, and a "Tidewater Community College" stamp crossed out with black sharpie on head edge. Shelved ND-A. 1380495. FP New Rockville Stock. N° de réf. du vendeur 1380495

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Titre : COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE: A MINIMALIST ...

Éditeur : Springer Science + Business Media, Inc, New York

Date d'édition : 2003

Reliure : Hardcover

Edition : First Edition, Second Printing.

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This book examines computer architecture, computability theory, and the history of computers from the perspective of minimalist computing - a framework in which the instruction set consists of a single instruction. This approach is different than that taken in any other computer architecture text, and it is a bold step. The audience for this book is researchers, computer hardware engineers, software engineers, and systems engineers who are looking for a fresh, unique perspective on computer architecture. Upper division undergraduate students and early graduate students studying computer architecture, computer organization, or embedded systems will also find this book useful. A typical course title might be "Special Topics in Computer Architecture." The organization ofthe book is as follows. First, the reasons for studying such an "esoteric" subject are given. Then, the history and evolution of instruction sets is studied with an emphasis on how modern computing has features ofone instruction computing. Also, previous computer systems are reviewed to show how their features relate to one instruction computers. Next, the primary forms of one instruction set computing are examined. The theories of computation and of Turing machines are also reviewed to examine the theoretical nature of one instruction computers. Other processor architectures and instruction sets are then mapped into single instructions to illustrate the features of both types of one instruction computers. In doing so, the features of the processor being mapped are highlighted.