April 2003
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
15h 13m
English
book
Itanium® Architecture for Programmers: Understanding 64-Bit Processors and EPIC Principles
by James S. Evans - Lawrence University, Gregory L. Trimper - viika
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Exercises
| 1: | Discuss why the three principal structures of a computer system are largely invisible to a high-level language programmer. |
| 2: | Is the bus a part of a computer's architecture? Why, or why not? |
| 3: | What is an address? In Figure 2-2, the last address is given as N – 1. Why? If a memory unit has an address 37 (base 10), how many memory units precede it? |
| 4: | Compare and contrast a computer memory system to the human memory. |
| 5: | What is the address space? How is the size of the address space determined? If a machine has a 4-bit address, how many addressable memory units are there? How are they numbered? |
| 6: | If we wish to run a program with 69,326 bytes of instructions and data on a hypothetical computer, what does this imply about the size of addresses ... |
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