Preface
Preface to the First Edition
1 Welcome Aboard
1.1 What We Will Try to Do
1.2 How We Will Get There
1.3 Two Recurring Themes
1.3.1 The Notion of Abstraction
1.3.2 Hardware versus Software
1.4 A Computer System
1.5 Two Very Important Ideas
1.6 Computers as Universal Computational Devices
1.7 How Do We Get the Electrons to Do the Work?
1.7.1 The Statement of the Problem
1.7.2 The Algotithm
1.7.3 The Program
1.7.4 The ISA
1.7.5 The Microarchitecture
1.7.6 The Logic Circuit
1.7.7 The Devices
1.7.8 Putting It Together
Exercises
2 Bits,Data Types,and Operations
2.1 Bits and Data Types
2.1.1 The Bit as the Unit of Information
2.1.2 Data Types
2.2 Integer Data Types
2.2.1 Unsigned Integers
2.2.2 Signed Integers
2.3 2's Complement Integers
2.4 Binary-Decimal Conversion
2.4.1 Binary to Decimal Conversion
2.4.2 Decimal to Binary Conversion
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