Description
Presenting topics in a complete and detailed fashion from the ground up, this new text offers a thorough, yet brief, introduction to the entire body of fundamental material in computer architecture and assembly language. It discusses computer organization at the gate level, the register level, the system level, and the network level; and explores assembly language programming in terms of computer system basics. For computer programmers.Table of Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Foundations. 3. Principal Components of a Computer System. 4. The SIM68 Computer. 5. System Component. 6. Addressing Schemes and the MC68000. 7. Assembly Language for the MC68000. 8. Subroutines and Macros. 9. Exceptions. 10. Communicating with the Outside World. 11. Computer Networking.
