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(Ebook) Computer Systems Architecture a Networking Approach 1st edition by Rob Williams 0321340795 9780321340795

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Authors:Rob Williams
Pages:753 pages.
Year:2006
Editon:2
Publisher:Prentice Hall
Language:english
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(Ebook) Computer Systems Architecture a Networking Approach 1st edition by Rob Williams 0321340795 9780321340795

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ISBN-10 :  0321340795 

ISBN-13 :  9780321340795

Author:    Rob Williams 

The first Computer Architecture text to recognize that computers are now predinantly used in a networking environment, fully updated to include new technologies and with an all new chapter on Distributed Computing.

 

Computer Systems Architecture: a Networking Approach 1st Table of contents:

Part 1 Basic functions and facilities of a computer
Introduction: the hardware– software interface
Computer systems – the importance of networking
Hardware and software – mutual dependence
Programming your way into hardware – VHDL, a language for electronic engineers
Voice, image and data – technological convergence
Windowing interfaces – WIMPs
The global Internet – connecting all the networks
Using the PC – a case study; more reasons to study CSA
The von Neumann Inheritance
Stored program control – general-purpose machines
Instruction codes – machine action repertoire
Linking – bringing it all together
Interpreters – executing high-level commands
Code sharing and reuse – let’s not write it all again!
Data codes – numeric and character
The operating system – Unix and Windows
Client–server computing – the way of the Net
Reconfigurable hardware – an alternative to fetch–execute
Functional units and the fetch– execute cycle
The naming of parts – CPU, memory, IO units
The CPU fetch–execute cycle – high-speed tedium
System bus – synchronous or asynchronous?
System clock – instruction cycle timing
Pre-fetching – early efforts to speed things up
Memory length – address width
Endian-ness – Microsoft vs. Unix, or Intel vs. Motorola?
Simple input–output – parallel ports
Building computers from logic: the control unit
Electronic Lego and logic – the advantage of modular units
Basic logic gates – truth tables for AND, OR, XOR and NOT
Truth tables and multiplexers – a simple but effective design tool
Programmable logic – reconfigurable logic chips
Traffic light controllers – impossible to avoid!
Circuit implementation from truth tables – some practical tips
Decoder logic – essential for control units and memories
CPU control unit – the ‘brain’
Washing machine controllers – a simple CU
RISC vs. CISC decoding – in search of faster computers
Building computers from logic: the ALU
Binary addition – half adders, full adders, parallel adders
Binary subtraction – using two’s complement integer format
Binary shifting – barrel shifter
Integer multiplication – shifting and adding
Floating-point numbers – from very, very large to very, very small
Building computers from logic: the memory
Data storage – one bit at a time
Memory devices – memory modules for computers
Static memory – a lot of fast flip-flops
Dynamic memory – a touch of analogue amid the digital
Page access memories – EDO and SDRAM
Memory mapping – addressing and decoding
IO port mapping – integration vs. differentiation
The Intel Pentium CPU
The Pentium – a high-performance microprocessor
CPU registers – temporary store for data and address variables
Instruction set – introduction to the basic Pentium set
Structure of instructions – how the CU sees it
CPU status flags – very short-term memory
Addressing modes – building effective addresses
Execution pipelines – the RISC speedup technique
Pentium 4 – extensions
Microsoft Developer Studio – using the debugger
Subroutines
The purpose of subroutines – saving space and effort
Return address – introducing the stack
Using subroutines – HLL programming
The stack – essential to most operations
Passing parameters – localizing a subroutine
Stack frame – all the local variables
Interrupt service routines – hardware-invoked subroutines
Accessing operating system routines – late binding
Simple input and output
Basic IO methods – polling, interrupt and DMA
Peripheral interface registers – the programmer’s viewpoint
Polling – single-character IO
Interrupt processing – service on demand
Critical data protection – how to communicate with interrupts
Buffered IO – interrupt device drivers
Direct memory access (DMA) – autonomous hardware
Single-character IO – screen and keyboard routines
Serial connections
Serial transmission – data, signals and timing
Data format – encoding techniques
Timing synchronization – frequency and phase
Data codes and error control – parity, checksums, Hamming codes and CRCs
Flow control – hardware and software methods
The 16550 UART – RS232
Serial mice – mechanical or optical
USB – Universal Serial Bus
Modems – modulating carrier waves
Parallel connections.
Centronics – more than a printer port but less than a bus
SCSI – the Small Computer Systems Interface
IDE – Intelligent Drive Electronics
AT/ISA – a computer standards success story
PCI – Peripheral Component Interconnection
Plug-and-Play – automatic configuration
PCMCIA – Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
The memory hierarchy
Levels of performance – you get what you pay for
Localization of access – exploiting repetition
Instruction and data caches – matching memory to CPU speed
Cache mapping – direct or associative
Virtual memory – segmentation and demand paging
Address formulation – when, where and how much
Hard disk usage – parameters, access scheduling and data arrangement
Performance improvement – blocking, caching, defragmentation, scheduling, RAM disk
Optical discs – CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-RW and DVDs
MPEG – video and audio compression
Flash sticks – the new floppy disk
Part 2 Networking and increased complexity
The programmer’s viewpoint
Different viewpoints – different needs
Application user – office packages
Systems administration – software installation and maintenance
HLL programmer – working with Java, C++, BASIC or C#
Systems programming – assembler and C.
Hardware engineer – design and hardware maintenance
Layered virtual machines – hierarchical description
Assemblers – simple translators
Compilers – translation and more
Local area networks
Reconnecting the users – email, printers and database
PC network interface – cabling and interface card
Ethernet – Carrier Sense, Multiple Access/Collision Detect
LAN addressing – logical and physical schemes
Host names – another layer of translation
Layering and encapsulation – TCP/IP software stack
Networked file systems – sharing files across a network
Socket programming – an introduction to WinSock
Wide area networks
The Internet – origins.
TCP/IP – the essential protocols.
TCP – handling errors and flow control
IP routing – how packets find their way
DNS – Distributed Name Database
World Wide Web – the start
Browsing the Web – Netscape Navigator
HTTP – another protocol
Search engines – Google
Open Systems Interconnect – an idealized scheme
Other networks
The PSTN – telephones
Cellnets – providers of mobile communications.
ATM – Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Messaging – radio paging and packet radio networks.
ISDN – totally digital.
DSL – Digital Subscriber Line
Cable television – facilities for data transmission
Introduction to operating systems
Historic origins – development of basic functions
Unix – a landmark operating system
Outline structure – modularization
Process management – initialization and dispatching
Scheduling decisions – time-slicing, demand preemption or cooperative
Task communication – pipes and redirection
Exclusion and synchronization – semaphores and signals
Memory allocation – malloc( ) and free( )
User interface – GUIs and shells
Input–output management – device handler
Windows XP
Windows GUIs – responding to a need
Win32 – the preferred user API
Processes and threads – multitasking.
Windows Registry – centralized administrative database
NTFS – Windows NT File System
File access – ACLs, permissions and security.
Windows XP as a mainframe – Winframe terminal server.
Filing systems
Data storage – file systems and databases.
The PC file allocation table – the FAT.
Unix inodes – they do it differently.
Microsoft NTFS – complexity and security
RAID configuration – more security for the disk subsystem.
File security – access controls
CD portable file system – multi-session contents lists.

 

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