System Architecture An Ordinary Engineering Discipline /

• Main Authors: Paul, Wolfgang J. (Author), Baumann, Christoph (Author), Lutsyk, Petro (Author), Schmaltz, Sabine (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer hardware.; Computer organization.; Software engineering.; Electrical engineering.; Computer Science.; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.; Computer Hardware.; Electrical Engineering.

The pillars of the bridge on the cover of this book date from the Roman Empire and they are in daily use today, an example of conventional engineering at its best. Modern commodity operating systems are examples of current system programming at its best, with bugs discovered and fixed on a weekly or...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Understanding Decimal Addition
• Basic Mathematical Concepts
• Number Formats and Boolean Algebra
• Hardware
• Five Designs of RAM
• Arithmetic Circuits
• A Basic Sequential MIPS Machine
• Some Assembler Programs
• Context-Free Grammars
• The Language C0
• A C0-Compiler
• Compiler Consistency Revisited
• Operating System Support
• A Generic Operating System Kernel.