Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Table Of Content1: Introduction2: Number systems3: Boolean algebra/logic4: Hardware components5: Integration6: Computers7: Information and memory8: Hardware/software aspects9: MIPS architecture10: MIPS Assembly language implementation11: Examples of architecturesAppendices
SynopsisThis book explains the general concepts of the working of a computer from the bottom up. It starts with very simple electronic circuits and joins them to form gates, which are joined to form logic circuits, which arejoined to form complex components, which are joined to form computers.Simultaneously it explains the philosophy and mathematics of computing. The fact that numbers do not exist, yet we use them (seemingly) in our computer. Things as information theory. What is a bit, a byte and how muchinformation is in a computer?It then enters the field of low-level computing, assembly (with an emphasis on MIPS architecture), and it is shown how high-level computing paradigms such as for-loops and functions of C are implemented in assembly., This book explains the general concepts of the working of a computer from the bottom up. It starts with very simple electronic circuits and joins them to form gates, which are joined to form logic circuits, which are joined to form complex components, which are joined to form computers. Simultaneously it explains the philosophy and mathematics of computing. The fact that numbers do not exist, yet we use them (seemingly) in our computer. Things as information theory. What is a bit, a byte and how much information is in a computer? It then enters the field of low-level computing, assembly (with an emphasis on MIPS architecture), and it is shown how high-level computing paradigms such as for-loops and functions of C are implemented in assembly.