Introduction to Computing Systems: From Bits and Gates to C and Beyond (Int'l Ed) - Rilegato

Patt, Yale N.; Patel, Sanjay J.

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ISBN 10: 0071215034 ISBN 13: 9780071215039

Casa editrice: McGraw Hill, 2003

Riassunto

This book is based on the premise that starting with a high level programming language is not the best approach. The reason most students are unsuccessful using a programming language when they encounter it in their first course is because they are forced to memorize a lot of technical details without having any idea why these details are necessary. That is, they do not understand the basic underpinnings of how a computer works.

From this basic notion evolves the motivated bottom-up approach found in Patt/Patel’s Introduction To Computing Systems, now in a second edition. The text starts with the logic structures and architecture of a computer and moves up to the application software that runs on it. Every treatment that purports to start at the bottom and work up begins with some abstraction. For Patt/Patel, that abstraction is the switch level behavior of an MOS transistor. From a very short treatment of that abstraction, the book covers in turn: Logic Gates, latches, logic structures (MUX, Decoder, Adder, gated latches), finally culminating in an implementation of memory. From there, the book moves on to the Von Neumann model of execution, then a simple computer (the LC-3), machine language programming, assembly language and how an assembler works, and then assembly language programming of the LC-3. The LC-3 treatment concludes with a substantial treatment of Physical I/O, including both polling and interrupt-driven I/O, the nature of traps and subroutine calls/returns. The book then moves to the high-level language C, covering recursion, pointers, and finally elementary data structures. The book establishes a foundation that every subsequent course in the computer science or computer engineering curriculum can benefit from and build on.

Su questo libro

Contenuti:

Part I

1 Welcome Aboard!

2 Bits, Data Types, and Operations

3 Digital Logic Structures

4 The Von Neumann Model

5 The LC-3

6 Programming

7 Assembly Language

8 I/O

9 TRAP Routines and Subroutines

10 And, Finally...

Part II

11 Introduction to Programming in C

12 Variables and Operators

13 Control Structures

14 Functions

15 Debugging

16 Recursion

17 Pointers and Arrays

18 I/O in C

19 Data Structures

Appendix A The LC-3 ISA

Appendix B From LC-3 to x86

Appendix C The Microarchitecture of the LC-3

Appendix D The C Programming Language

Appendix E Extending C to C++

Appendix F Useful Tables

Su questa edizione

• Editore: McGraw Hill
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0071215034
• ISBN 13: 9780071215039
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 656