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ISBN 10: 0977087859 ISBN 13: 9780977087853

Casa editrice: MindShare Press, 2010

The Instruction Set Architecture, or ISA, is defined as that part of the processor architecture related to programming, including the native data types, instructions, registers, addressing modes, memory architecture, interrupt and exception handling, and external IO. With the exception of some small deviations and differences in terminology, all Intel and AMD x86 processors share a common ISA. This book focuses on those shared attributes (it does not cover those areas where the two companies have chosen widely divergent solutions which, by definition, fall outside of the ISA specification). If you re looking for a comprehensive book designed to bootstrap you up quickly on virtually all aspects of the x86 32/64-bit Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), we respectfully ask you to consider this book.

Essential topics covered include:

• Basic Terms and Concepts
• Operating Mode/SubMode Introduction
• A (very) Brief History
• State After Reset
• Intro to the IA-32 Ecosystem
• Instruction Set Expansion
• 32-bit Machine Language Instruction Format
• Real Mode (8086 Emulation)
• Legacy x87 FP Support
• Introduction to Multitasking
• Multitasking-Related Issues
• Summary of the Protection Mechanisms
• Protected Mode Memory Addressing
• Code, Calls and Privilege Checks
• Data and Stack Segments
• IA-32 Address Translation Mechanisms
• Memory Type Configuration
• Task Switching
• Protected Mode Interrupts and Exceptions
• Virtual 8086 Mode
• The MMX Facilities
• The SSE Facilities
• IA-32e OS Environment
• IA-32e Address Translation
• Compatibility Mode
• 64-bit Register Overview
• 64-bit Operands and Addressing
• 64-bit Machine Language Instruction Format
• 64-bit Odds and Ends
• Transitioning to Protected Mode
• Transitioning to IA-32e Mode
• Introduction to Virtualization Technology
• System Management Mode (SMM)
• Machine Check Architecture (MCA)
• The Local and IO APICs

About the Author:

Tom Shanley, President of MindShare, Inc., applied his 40 years of hardware and software experience with Intel processors (from the 4004 and 8008 through the Nehalem-based processors of today) to this ambitious undertaking. The material organization is derived from those used to train thousands of software and hardware designers at virtually all of the world s leading high-tech companies.

MindShare's training courses on this topic include:
x86 LIVE COURSES:

• Intel 32/64-bit x86 Architecture
• AMD 32/64-bit x86 Architecture
• System Programming for x86
• x86 Assembly Language Programming

eLEARNING COURSES:

• Intro to 32/64-bit x86 Architecture
• Comprehensive 32/64-bit x86 Architecture
• And more...