TY - GEN AU - Comer, Douglas TI - Essentials of computer architecture SN - 0131491792 AV - QA76.9.A73 C595 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - Upper Saddle River, N.J. PB - Pearson/Prentice Hall KW - Computer architecture KW - Bilgisayar mimarisi KW - etuturkob N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction and overview -- Fundamentals of digital logic -- Data and program representation -- The variety of processors and computational engines -- Processor types and instruction sets -- Operand addressing and instruction representation -- CPUs: microcode, protection, and processor modes -- Assembly languages and programming paradigm -- Memory and storage -- Physical memory and physical addressing -- Virtual memory technologies and virtual addressing -- Caches and caching -- Input/output concepts and terminology -- Buses and bus architectures -- Programmed and interrupt-driven I/O -- A programmer's view of devices, I/O, and buffering -- Parallelism -- Pipelining -- Assessing performance -- Architecture examples and hierarchy -- Lab exercises for a computer architecture course ER -