Modern Computer Architecture and Organization

Jim Ledin is the President and CEO of Ledin Engineering, Inc. Jim specializes in the design and testing of embedded software and hardware. He is also knowledgeable about system cybersecurity and penetration testing. He graduated from Iowa State University with a B.S. in aerospace engineering and the Georgia Institute of Technology with an M.S. in electrical and computer engineering.

Are you a software developer, systems designer, or computer architecture student seeking for a systematic introduction to digital device architectures yet feeling overwhelmed by the complexity of modern systems? With the use of realistic examples and exercises, this step-by-step tutorial will educate you how modern computer systems work. You'll learn about the internal behavior of processors down to the circuit level, as well as how the hardware executes code written in high-level languages.

Modern Computer Architecture and Organization will teach you about computer systems principles such as transistors, logic gates, sequential logic, and instruction pipelines. Modern CPU architectures and instruction sets, such as x86, x64, ARM, and RISC-V, will be covered in detail. You will learn how to design a RISC-V processor in a low-cost FPGA board, as well as write and run a quantum computing application on an actual quantum computer.

This edition has been revised to include coverage of the architectural and design principles that underpin the critical domains of cybersecurity, blockchain and bitcoin mining, and self-driving vehicles.

By the end of Modern Computer Architecture and Organization, you'll have a solid understanding of modern processors and computer architecture, as well as the potential future routes these technologies may take.

What you will discover:

• Learn the basics of transistor technology and digital circuits.
• Investigate the principles underlying pipelining and superscalar processing.
• Incorporate a full RISC-V CPU inside a low-cost FPGA.
• Learn about the technology that is utilized to implement virtual machines.
• Learn about secure computing applications such as financial transaction processing.
• Learn about blockchain and the hardware designs used in bitcoin mining.
• Investigate the capabilities of self-driving vehicle computing architectures.
• Create a quantum computing program that can be run on a real quantum computer.

This book is intended for software developers, computer engineering students, system designers, reverse engineers, and anyone interested in the architecture and design ideas underpinning current computer systems, which range from tiny embedded devices to warehouse-sized cloud server farms. A basic understanding of computer processors is advantageous but not needed.

Author: Jim Ledin

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