Fox Charles - Computer Architecture - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Computer architecture was once considered a boring subject but not anymore! With Moore's Law slowing to a crawl computing hardware is experiencing a new golden age. This fun informative book takes a look at the past to offer inspiration for the radical designs of tomorrow tracing the development of modern systems from Stone Age tallies and Babbage's engines to present - day cloud architectures quantum computers and big data parallelization. Based on author Charles Fox's award - winning university - level computer - architecture course it covers the inner workings of the computer from circuits to CP Us to memory and beyond. Fresh ideas are introduced using concepts from history music gaming and retro computing and other interesting areas of study. In addition practical computer exercises are provided in every chapter such as building a CPU from digital logic and programming machines like the Commodore 64, x 86 and RISC - V. By the end you'll learn all of the hardware requirements of a Computer Science degree including digital logic memory IO assembly programming Io T embedded systems and more.
Title: Computer Architecture
Author(s): Fox Charles
Publisher: No Starch Press Us
Barcode: 9781718502864
Pages: 560 Pages
Publication Date: 5/7/2024
Category: Computer Architecture & Logic Design