Schaum's Outline of Computer Architecture (Schaum's Outline Series) (SCHAUMS' COMPUTING) - Tapa blanda

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Nick Carter, Ph.D. (Urbana, IL) is an assistant professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He holds a doctorate in computer science from MIT, has worked at IBM’s Yorktown, NY, research facility and was the memory system architect on MIT’s prestigious M-Machine project.

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Chapters include:

• Introduction
• Binary Logic
• Computer Arithmetic
• Machine Organization
• Programming Models
• Basic Processor Design
• Pipelining
• Instruction-Level Parallelism
• Introduction to Memory Systems
• Cache Memories
• Virtual Memory
• Input/Output Systems
• Introduction to Multiprocessors

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