Modern Computer Architecture and Organization: Learn x86, ARM, and RISC-V architectures and the design of smartphones, PCs, and cloud servers

• Understand digital circuitry with the help of transistors, logic gates, and sequential logic
• Examine the architecture and instruction sets of x86, x64, ARM, and RISC-V processors
• Explore the architecture of modern devices such as the iPhone X and high-performance gaming PCs

• Get to grips with transistor technology and digital circuit principles
• Discover the functional elements of computer processors
• Understand pipelining and superscalar execution
• Work with floating-point data formats
• Understand the purpose and operation of the supervisor mode
• Implement a complete RISC-V processor in a low-cost FPGA
• Explore the techniques used in virtual machine implementation
• Write a quantum computing program and run it on a quantum computer

This book is for software developers, computer engineering students, system designers, reverse engineers, and anyone looking to understand the architecture and design principles underlying modern computer systems from tiny embedded devices to warehouse-size cloud server farms. A general understanding of computer processors is helpful but not required.