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This undergraduate textbook first introduces basic electronic circuitry before explaining more advanced elements such as the Arithmetic Logic Unit, sequential circuits, and finally microprocessors. In keeping with this integrated and graduated approach, the authors then explain the relationship to first assembly programming, then higher-level languages, and finally computer organisation.
Authors use the Raspberry Pi and ARM microprocessors for their explanations
The material has been extensively class tested at TU Eindhoven by an experienced team of lecturers and researchers. This is a modern, holistic treatment of well-established topics, valuable for undergraduate students of computer science and electronics engineering and for self-study. The authors use the Raspberry Pi and ARM microprocessors for their explanations.
List of contents
Basic Components and Combinatorial Circuits.- Numbers, Basic Circuits, and the ALU.- Sequential Circuits.- An Elementary Processor.- Assembly Programming.- Compiling Higher-Level Languages.- Computer Organisation.- The Raspberry Pi and the ARM Processor.- App. A, An Extended Instruction Set for the Simple Processor.- App. B, The ARM Instruction Set.- App. C, Syntax of the Register Transfer Language.- App. D, Exercise Answers.
About the author
The authors are highly experienced researchers and lecturers in the domain of this book, in particular they have class-tested its content at TU Eindhoven and the University of Oxford.
Prof. Jan Friso Groote, Eindhoven University of Technology, Dept of Mathematics & Computer Science, EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands
Mr. Rolf Morel, University of Oxford, Computer Science, OXFORD, United Kingdom
Dr. Julien Schmaltz, Eindhoven University of Technology, Mathematics and Computer Science, EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands
Dr. Adam Watkins, Eindhoven University of Technology, Mathematics and Computer Science, EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands
