You're reading from Modern Computer Architecture and Organization Learn x86, ARM, and RISC-V architectures and the design of smartphones, PCs, and cloud servers

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838984397

Length 560 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

FPGA

Concepts

Computer Architecture

Author (1):

Jim Ledin

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Fundamentals of Computer Architecture

2. Chapter 1: Introducing Computer Architecture FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Digital Logic

4. Chapter 3: Processor Elements

5. Chapter 4: Computer System Components

6. Chapter 5: Hardware-Software Interface

7. Chapter 6: Specialized Computing Domains

8. Section 2: Processor Architectures and Instruction Sets

9. Chapter 7: Processor and Memory Architectures

10. Chapter 8: Performance-Enhancing Techniques

11. Chapter 9: Specialized Processor Extensions

12. Chapter 10: Modern Processor Architectures and Instruction Sets

13. Chapter 11: The RISC-V Architecture and Instruction Set

14. Section 3: Applications of Computer Architecture

15. Chapter 12: Processor Virtualization

16. Chapter 13: Domain-Specific Computer Architectures

17. Chapter 14: Future Directions in Computer Architectures

18. Answers to Exercises

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

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x64 architecture and instruction set

The original specification for a processor architecture extending the x86 processor and instruction set to 64 bits, named AMD64, was introduced by AMD in 2000. The first AMD64 processor, the Opteron, was released in 2003. Intel found itself following AMD's lead and developed an AMD64-compatible architecture, eventually given the name Intel 64. The first Intel processor that implemented their 64-bit architecture was the Xeon, introduced in 2004. The name of the architecture shared by AMD and Intel came to be called x86-64, reflecting the evolution of x86 to 64 bits, and in popular usage, this term has been shortened to x64.

The first Linux version supporting the x64 architecture was released in 2001, well before the first x64 processors were even available. Windows began supporting the x64 architecture in 2005.

Processors implementing the AMD64 and Intel 64 architectures are largely compatible at the instruction level of user mode programs...