Introduction to Computer Architecture

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System programmer's point of view:

  1. Instruction Set Architecture

    1. Instructions

      1. Computational Inst.
      2. Memory Access Inst.
      3. Control Transfer Inst.
      4. Others

    2. Registers

      1. General-purpose Req.
      2. Control and State Req.

  2. Data Types

    1. Integers

      1. Signed {Byte, half-word, word, long-word}
      2. Unsigned {Byte, half-word, word, long-word}

    2. Floating-Point Numbers

      1. Single precision (float)
      2. Double precision (double)

    3. Characters

    4. Floating-Point Numbers

  3. Memory Space

  4. Input/Output(I/O) Space