Front Cover -- Hardware and Computer Organization: The Software Perspective -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- What's on the DVD-ROM? -- Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview of Hardware Architecture -- Introduction -- A Brief History of Computing -- Number Systems -- Converting Decimals to Bases -- Engineering Notation -- Summary of Chapter 1 -- Exercises for Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2. Introduction to Digital Logic -- Electronic Gate Description -- Truth Tables -- Summary of Chapter 2 -- Exercises for Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3. Introduction to Asynchronous Logic -- Introduction -- Laws of Boolean Algebra -- The Karnaugh Map -- Clocks and Pulses -- Summary of Chapter 3 -- Exercises for Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4. Introduction to Synchronous Logic -- Flip-Flops -- Storage Register -- Summary of Chapter 4 -- Exercises for Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5. Introduction to State Machines -- Modern Hardware Design Methodologies -- Summary of Chapter 5 -- Exercises for Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6. Bus Organization and Memory Design -- Bus Organization -- Address Space -- Direct Memory Access (DMA) -- Summary of Chapter 6 -- Exercises for Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7. Memory Organization and Assembly Language Programming -- Introduction -- Label -- Effective Addresses -- Pseudo Opcodes -- Data Storage Directives -- Analysis of an Assembly Language Program -- Summary of Chapter 7 -- Exercises for Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8. Programming in Assembly Language -- Introduction -- Assembly Language and C++ -- Stacks and Subroutines -- Summary of Chapter 8 -- Exercises for Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9. Advanced Assembly Language Programming Concepts -- Introduction -- Advanced Addressing Modes -- 68000 Instructions -- MOVE Instructions -- Logical Instructions -- Other Logical Instructions -- Summary of the 68K Instructions -- Simulated I/O Using the TRAP #15 Instruction.

Compilers and Assemblers -- Summary of Chapter 9 -- Exercises for Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10. The Intel x86 Architecture -- Introduction -- The Architecture of the 8086 CPU -- Data, Index and Pointer Registers -- Flag Registers -- Segment Registers -- Instruction Pointer (IP) -- Memory Addressing Modes -- X86 Instruction Format -- 8086 Instruction Set Summary -- Data Transfer Instructions -- Arithmetic Instructions -- Logic Instructions -- String Manipulation -- Control Transfer -- Assembly Language Programming the 8086 Architecture -- System Vectors -- System Startup -- Wrap-Up -- Summary of Chapter 10 -- Exercises for Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11. The ARM Architecture -- Introduction -- ARM Architecture -- Conditional Execution -- Barrel Shifter -- Operand Size -- Addressing Modes -- Stack Operations -- ARM Instruction Set -- ARM System Vectors -- Summary and Conclusions -- Summary of Chapter 11 -- Exercises for Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12. Interfacing with the Real World -- Introduction -- Interrupts -- Exceptions -- Motorola 68K Interrupts -- Analog-to-Digital (A/D) and Digital-to-Analog (D/A) Conversion -- The Resolution of A/D and D/A Converters -- Summary of Chapter 12 -- Exercises for Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13. Introduction to Modern Computer Architectures -- Processor Architectures, CISC, RISC and DSP -- An Overview of Pipelining -- Summary of Chapter 13 -- Exercises for Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14. Memory Revisited, Caches and Virtual Memory -- Introduction to Caches -- Virtual Memory -- Pages -- Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) -- Protection -- Summary of Chapter 14 -- Exercises for Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15. Performance Issues in Computer Architecture -- Introduction -- Hardware and Performance -- Best Practices -- Summary of Chapter 15 -- Exercises for Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16. Future Trends and Reconfigurable Hardware -- Introduction.

Reconfigurable Hardware -- Molecular Computing -- Local clocks -- Summary of Chapter 16 -- Exercises for Chapter 16 -- APPENDIX A. Solutions for Odd-Numbered Exercises -- About the Author -- Index.