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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Quotation -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Function of Computation -- 1.1. Beginnings -- 1.2. Classes of computers -- 1.3. Analog approach -- 1.4. Hardware-software relationship -- 1.5. Integration and its limits -- 1.6. Conclusion -- Chapter 2 The Function of Memory -- 2.1. Definition -- 2.2. Related concepts -- 2.2.1. A story of endianness -- 2.2.2. Alignment -- 2.3. Modeling -- 2.4. Classification -- 2.5. Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Computation Model and Architecture: Illustration with the von Neumann Approach

3.1. Basic concepts -- 3.1.1. The idea of a program -- 3.1.2. Control and data flows and mechanisms -- 3.1.3. Models of computation -- 3.1.4. Architectures -- 3.1.5. The semantic gap -- 3.2. The original von Neumann machine -- 3.2.1. von Neumann's computation model -- 3.2.2. von Neumann's (machine) architecture -- 3.2.3. Control -- 3.3. Modern von Neumann machines -- 3.3.1. Abstraction level -- 3.3.2. Base execution outline -- 3.3.3. Possible transfers -- 3.3.4. Summary: advantages and disadvantages of this model -- 3.4. Variations on a theme -- 3.4.1. Classification by bus

3.4.2. Harvard architectures -- 3.4.3. Parallelism -- 3.5. Instruction set architecture -- 3.5.1. Storage components -- 3.5.2. Data format and type -- 3.5.3. Instruction set -- 3.5.4. Memory model -- 3.5.5. Execution modes -- 3.5.6. Miscellaneous -- 3.6. Basic definitions for this book -- 3.7. Conclusion -- Conclusion of Volume 1 -- Exercises -- Acronyms -- References -- Index -- Other titles from ISTE in Computer Engineering

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