Essentials of Computer Architecture (Hardcover, 3 ed)

Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview
Chapter 2 Program Interpretation and Transformation
Chapter 3 Data and Program Representation
Chapter 4 A High-Level Overview of Processors
Chapter 5 Instruction Stes and Operands
Chapter 6 Operand Addressing and Operand Types
Chapter 7 Assembly Languages and Programming Paradigm
Chapter 8 Main Memory and Memory Addressing
Chapter 9 Virtual Memory Technologies and Virtual Addressing
Chapter 10 Caches and Caching
Chapter 11 Storage: File Systems, Blocks and SSDs
Chapter 12 A Programmer's View of Devices, I/O, and Buffering
Chapter 13 Buses and Bus Architectures
Chapter 14 Programming Devices and Interrupt-Driven I/O
Chapter 15 Data Paths and Instruction Execution
Chapter 16 CPUs: Micrcode, Protection, and Processor Modes
Chapter 17 Parallelism
Chapter 18 Data Pipelining
Chapter 19 Assessing Performance
Chapter 20 Multicore Processors
Chapter 21 Power and Energy
Chapter 22 Building Blocks: Transistors, Gates and Clocks
Chapter 23 Hardware Modularity
Appendix 1 Rules for Boolean Algebra Simplification
Appendix 2 A Quick Introduction to x86 Assembly Language
Appendix 3 ARM Register Definitions and Calling Sequence
Appendix 4 Lab Exercises for a Computer Architecture Course