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Chapter 1. Computer Abstractions and Technology -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Below Your Program -- 1.3. Under the Covers -- 1.4. Real Stuff: Manufacturing Pentium 4 Chips -- 1.5. Fallacies and Pitfalls -- 1.6. Concluding Remarks -- 1.7. Historical Perspective and Further Reading -- 1.8. Exercises -- Computers in the Real World: Information Technology for the 4 Billion without IT -- Chapter 2. Instructions: Language of the Computer -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Operations of the Computer Hardware -- 2.3. Operands of the Computer Hardware -- 2.4. Representing Instructions in the Computer -- 2.5. Logical Operations -- 2.6. Instructions for Making Decisions -- 2.7. Supporting Procedures in Computer Hardware -- 2.8. Communicating with People -- 2.9. MIPS Addressing for 32-Bit Immediates and Addresses -- 2.10. Translating and Starting a Program -- 2.11. How Compilers Optimize -- 2.12. How Compilers Work: An Introduction -- 2.13. A C Sort Example to Put It All Together -- 2.14. Implementing an Object-Oriented Language -- 2.15. Arrays versus Pointers -- 2.16. Real Stuff: IA-32 Instructions -- 2.17. Fallacies and Pitfalls -- 2.18. Concluding Remarks -- 2.19. Historical Perspective and Further Reading -- 2.20. Exercises -- Computers in the Real World: Helping Save Our Environment with Data -- Chapter 3. Arithmetic for Computers -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Signed and Unsigned Numbers -- 3.3. Addition and Subtraction -- 3.4. Multiplication -- 3.5. Division -- 3.6. Floating Point -- 3.7. Real Stuff: Floating Point in the IA-32 -- 3.8. Fallacies and Pitfalls -- 3.9. Concluding Remarks -- 3.10. Historical Perspective and Further Reading -- 3.11. Exercises -- Computers in the Real World: Reconstructing the Ancient World -- Chapter 4. Assessing and Understanding Performance -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. CPU Performance and Its Factors -- 4.3. Evaluating Performance -- 4.4. Real Stuff: Two SPEC Benchmarks and the Performance of Recent Intel Processors -- 4.5. Fallacies and Pitfalls -- 4.6. Concluding Remarks -- 4.7. Historical Perspective and Further Reading -- 4.8. Exercises -- Computers in the Real World: Moving People Faster and More Safely -- Chapter 5. The Processor: Datapath and Control -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Logic Design Conventions -- 5.3. Building a Datapath -- 5.4. A Simple Implementation Scheme -- 5.5. A Multicycle Implementation -- 5.6. Exceptions -- 5.7. Microprogramming: Simplifying Control Design -- 5.8. An Introduction to Digital Design Using a Hardware Design Language -- 5.9. Real Stuff: The Organization of Recent Pentium Implementations -- 5.10. Fallacies and Pitfalls -- 5.11. Concluding Remarks -- 5.12. Historical Perspective and Further Reading -- 5.13. Exercises -- Computers in the Real World: Empowering the Disabled -- Chapter 6. Enhancing Performance with Pipelining -- 6.1. An Overview of Pipelining -- 6.2. A Pipelined Datapath -- 6.3. Pipelined Control -- 6.4. Data Hazards and Forwarding -- 6.5. Data Hazards and Stalls -- 6.6. Control Hazards -- 6.7. Using a Hardware Description Language to Describe and Model a Pipeline -- 6.8. Exceptions -- 6.9. Advanced Pipelining: Extracting More Performance -- 6.10. Real Stuff: The Pentium 4 Pipeline -- 6.11. Fallacies and Pitfalls -- 6.12. Concluding Remarks -- 6.13. Historical Perspective and Further Reading -- 6.14. Exercises -- Computers in the Real World: Mass Communication without Gatekeepers -- Chapter 7. Large and Fast: Exploiting Memory Hierarchy -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. The Basics of Caches -- 7.3. Measuring and Improving Cache Performance -- 7.4. Virtual Memory -- 7.5. A Common Framework for Memory Hierarchies -- 7.6. Real Stuff: The Pentium P4 and the AMD Opteron Memory Hierarchies -- 7.7. Fallacies and Pitfalls -- 7.8. Concluding Remarks -- 7.9. Historical Perspective and Further Reading -- 7.10. Exercises -- Computers in the Real World: Saving the World's Art Treasures -- Chapter 8. Storage, Networks, and Other Peripherals -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Disk Storage and Dependability -- 8.3. Networks -- 8.4. Buses and Other Connections between Processors, Memory, and I/O Devices -- 8.5. Interfacing I/O Devices to the Processor, Memory, and Operating System -- 8.6. I/O Performance Measures: Examples from Disk and File Systems -- 8.7. Designing an I/O System -- 8.8. Real Stuff: A Digital Camera -- 8.9. Fallacies and Pitfalls -- 8.10. Concluding Remarks -- 8.11. Historical Perspective and Further Reading -- 8.12. Exercises -- Computers in the Real World: Saving Lives through Better Diagnosis -- Chapter 9. Multiprocessors and Clusters -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Programming Multiprocessors -- 9.3. Multiprocessors Connected by a Single Bus -- 9.4. Multiprocessors Connected by a Network -- 9.5. Clusters -- 9.6. Network Topologies -- 9.7. Multiprocessors Inside a Chip and Multithreading -- 9.8. Real Stuff: The Google Cluster of PCs -- 9.9. Fallacies and Pitfalls -- 9.10. Concluding Remarks -- 9.11. Historical Perspective and Further Reading -- 9.12. Exercises -- A. Assemblers, Linkers, and the SPIM Simulator -- A.1. Introduction -- A.2. Assemblers -- A.3. Linkers -- A.4. Loading -- A.5. Memory Usage -- A.6. Procedure Call Convention -- A.7. Exceptions and Interrupts -- A.8. Input and Output -- A.9. SPIM -- A.10. MIPS R2000 Assembly Language -- A.11. Concluding Remarks -- A.12. Exercises -- B. The Basics of Logic Design -- B.1. Introduction -- B.2. Gates, Truth Tables, and Logic Equations -- B.3. Combinational Logic -- B.4. Using a Hardware Description Language -- B.5. Constructing a Basic Arithmetic Logic Unit -- B.6. Faster Addition: Carry Lookahead -- B.7. Clocks -- B.8. Memory Elements: Flip-Flops, Latches, and Registers -- B.9. Memory Elements: SRAMs and DRAMs -- B.10. Finite-State Machines -- B.11. Timing Methodologies -- B.12. Field Programmable Devices -- B.13. Concluding Remarks -- B.14. Exercises -- C. Mapping Control to Hardware -- C.1. Introduction -- C.2. Implementing Combinational Control Units -- C.3. Implementing Finite-State Machine Control -- C.4. Implementing the Next-State Function with a Sequencer -- C.5. Translating a Microprogram to Hardware -- C.6. Concluding Remarks -- C.7. Exercises -- D. A Survey of RISC Architectures for Desktop, Server, and Embedded Computers -- D.1. Introduction -- D.2. Addressing Modes and Instruction Formats -- D.3. Instructions: The MIPS Core Subset -- D.4. Instructions: Multimedia Extensions of the Desktop/Server RISCs -- D.5. Instructions: Digital Signal-Processing Extensions of the Embedded RISCs -- D.6. Instructions: Common Extensions to MIPS Core -- D.7. Instructions Unique to MIPS-64 -- D.8. Instructions Unique to Alpha -- D.9. Instructions Unique to SPARC v.9 -- D.10. Instructions Unique to PowerPC -- D.11. Instructions Unique to PA-RISC 2.0 -- D.12. Instructions Unique to ARM -- D.13. Instructions Unique to Thumb -- D.14. Instructions Unique to SuperH -- D.15. Instructions Unique to M32R -- D.16. Instructions Unique to MIPS-16 -- D.17. Concluding Remarks.

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