Digital Design and Computer Architecture, 2nd Edition

6

Architecture

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Assembly Language

6.3 Machine Language

6.4 Programming

6.5 Addressing Modes

6.6 Lights, Camera, Action: Compiling, Assembling, and Loading

6.7 Odds and Ends*

6.8 Real World Perspective: x86 Architecture*

6.9 Summary

 Exercises

 Interview Questions

6.1 Introduction

The previous chapters introduced digital design principles and building blocks. In this chapter, we jump up a few levels of abstraction to define the architecture of a computer. The architecture is the programmer’s view of a computer. It is defined by the instruction set (language) and operand locations (registers and memory). Many different ...