Computer Systems : An Embedded Approach /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McLoughlin, Ian (Author)
Corporate Author:	McGraw-Hill Companies
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	In English.
Published:	New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill Education, [2018]
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering.
Subjects:	Embedded computer systems. Microprocessors. Computer interfaces. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page-- About the Author-- Contents Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Boxes-- 1 Introduction
1.1 The Evolution of Computers
1.2 Forward Progress
1.3 Computer Generations
1.4 Cloud, Pervasive, Grid, and Massively Parallel
1.5 Where To from Here?
1.6 Summary
2 Foundations
2.1 Computer Organization
2.2 Computer Fundamentals
2.3 Number Formats
2.4 Arithmetic
2.5 Multiplication
2.6 Division
2.7 Working with Fractional Number Formats
2.8 Floating Point
2.9 Floating Point Processing
2.10 Summary
2.11 Problems
3 CPU Basics
3.1 What Is a Computer?
3.2 Making the Computer Work for You
3.3 Instruction Handling
3.4 Data Handling
3.5 A Top-Down View
3.6 Summary
3.7 Problems
4 Processor Internals
4.1 Internal Bus Architecture
4.2 Arithmetic Logic Unit
4.3 Memory Management Unit
4.4 Cache
4.5 Coprocessors
4.6 Floating Point Unit
4.7 Streaming SIMD Extensions and Multimedia Extensions
4.8 Co processing in Embedded Systems
4.9 Summary
4.10 Problems ? 5 Enhancing CPU Performance
5.1 Speedups
5.2 Pipelining
5.3 Complex and Reduced Instruction Set Computers
5.4 Superscalar Architectures
5.5 Instructions per Cycle
5.6 Hardware Acceleration
5.7 Branch Prediction
5.8 Parallel and Massively Parallel Machines
5.9 Tomasulo?s Algorithm
5.10 Very Long Instruction Word Architectures
5.11 Summary
5.12 Problems
6 Externals
6.1 Interfacing Using a Bus
6.2 Parallel Bus Specifications
6.3 Standard Interfaces
6.4 Real-Time Issues
6.5 Interrupts and Interrupt Handling
6.6 Embedded Wireless Connectivity
6.7 Summary
6.8 Problems
7 Practical Embedded CPUs
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Microprocessors Are Core Plus More
7.3 Required Functionality
7.4 Clocking
7.5 Clocks and Power
7.6 Memory
7.7 Pages and Overlays
7.8 Memory in Embedded Systems
7.9 Test and Verification
7.10 Error Detection and Correction
7.11 Watchdog Timers and Reset Supervision
7.12 Reverse Engineering
7.13 Preventing Reverse Engineering
7.14 Soft Core Processors
7.15 Hardware Software Codesign
7.16 Off-the-Shelf Cores
7.17 Summary
7.18 Problems
8 Programming
8.1 Running a Program
8.2 Writing a Program
8.3 The UNIX Programming Model
8.4 Summary
8.5 Problems
9 Operating Systems
9.1 What Is an Operating System?
9.2 Why Do We Need an Operating System?
9.3 The Role of an Operating System
9.4 OS Structure
9.5 Booting
9.6 Processes
9.7 Scheduling
9.8 Storage and File Systems
9.8.4 Backup
9.9 Summary
9.10 Problems
10 Connectivity
10.1 Why Connect, How to Connect
10.2 System Requirements
10.3 Scalability, Efficiency and Reuse
10.4 OSI Layers
10.5 Topology and Architecture
10.6 Summary
10.7 Problems
11 Networking
11.1 The Internet
11.2 TCP/IP and the IP Layer Model
11.3 Ethernet Overview
11.4 The Internet Layer
11.5 The Transport Layer
11.6 Other Messages
11.7 Wireless Connectivity
11.8 Network Scales
11.9 Summary
11.10 Problems
12 The Future
12.1 Single-Bit Architectures
12.2 More-Parallel Machines
12.3 Asynchronous Processors
12.4 Alternative Number Format Systems
12.5 Optical Computation
12.6 Science Fiction or Future Reality?
12.7 Summary
A Standard Memory Size Notation
B Standard Logic Gates
Index.