June 2012
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
15h 40m
English
Content preview from Computers as Components, 3rd Edition
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What we Learned
• Both the von Neumann and Harvard architectures are in common use today.
• The programming model is a description of the architecture relevant to instruction operation.
• ARM is a load-store architecture. It provides a few relatively complex instructions, such as saving and restoring multiple registers.
• The PIC16F is a very small, efficient microcontroller.
• The C55x provides a number of architectural features to support the arithmetic loops that are common on digital signal processing code.
• The C64x organizes instructions into execution packets to enable parallel execution.