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- Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- BackCover
- Write Great Code-Understanding the Machine, Volume I
- Chapter 1: What you Need to Know to Write Great Code
- 1.2 What This Volume Covers
- 1.3 Assumptions This Volume Makes
- 1.4 Characteristics of Great Code
- 1.5 The Environment for This Volume
- 1.6 For More Information
- Chapter 2: Numeric Representation
- 2.2 Numbering Systems
- 2.3 NumericString Conversions
- 2.4 Internal Numeric Representation
- 2.5 Signed and Unsigned Numbers
- 2.6 Some Useful Properties of Binary Numbers
- 2.7 Sign Extension, Zero Extension, and Contraction
- 2.8 Saturation
- 2.9 Binary-Coded Decimal (BCD) Representation
- 2.10 Fixed-Point Representation
- 2.11 Scaled Numeric Formats
- 2.12 Rational Representation
- 2.13 For More Information
- Chapter 3: Binary Arithmetic and Bit Operations
- 3.2 Logical Operations on Bits
- 3.3 Logical Operations on Binary Numbers and Bit Strings
- 3.4 Useful Bit Operations
- 3.5 Shifts and Rotates
- 3.6 Bit Fields and Packed Data
- 3.7 Packing and Unpacking Data
- 3.8 For More Information
- Chapter 4: Floating-Point Representation
- 4.2 IEEE Floating-Point Formats
- 4.3 Normalization and Denormalized Values
- 4.4 Rounding
- 4.5 Special Floating-Point Values
- 4.6 Floating-Point Exceptions
- 4.7 Floating-Point Operations
- 4.8 For More Information
- Chapter 5: Character Representation
- 5.1 Character Data
- 5.2 Character Strings
- 5.3 Character Sets
- 5.4 Designing Your Own Character Set
- 5.5 For More Information
- Chapter 6: Memory Organization and Access
- 6.2 Physical Organization of Memory
- 6.3 Big Endian Versus Little Endian Organization
- 6.4 The System Clock
- 6.5 CPU Memory Access
- 6.6 For More Information
- Chapter 7: Composite Data Types and Memory Objects
- 7.2 Arrays
- 7.3 RecordsStructures
- 7.4 Discriminant Unions
- 7.5 For More Information
- Chapter 8: Boolean Logic and Digital Design
- 8.2 Boolean Functions and Truth Tables
- 8.3 Function Numbers
- 8.4 Algebraic Manipulation of Boolean Expressions
- 8.5 Canonical Forms
- 8.6 Simplification of Boolean Functions
- 8.7 What Does This Have to Do with Computers, Anyway?
- 8.8 For More Information
- Chapter 9: CPU Architecture
- 9.2 Decoding and Executing Instructions: Random Logic Versus Microcode
- 9.3 Executing Instructions, Step by Step
- 9.4 Parallelism - The Key to Faster Processing
- 9.5 For More Information
- Chapter 10: Instruction Set Architecture
- 10.1 The Importance of the Design of the Instruction Set
- 10.2 Basic Instruction Design Goals
- 10.3 The Y86 Hypothetical Processor
- 10.4 Encoding 80x86 Instructions
- 10.5 Implications of Instruction Set Design to the Programmer
- 10.6 For More Information
- Chapter 11: Memory Architecture and Organization
- 11.2 How the Memory Hierarchy Operates
- 11.3 Relative Performance of Memory Subsystems
- 11.4 Cache Architecture
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