From Hardware to Software: an introduction to computers

Front Matter....Pages i-x
A Simple Digital Computer....Pages 1-45
Logic Functions and Expressions....Pages 46-68
Combinational Logic Circuits....Pages 69-93
Parallel, Binary Adders....Pages 94-106
Parallel, Binary Subtractors....Pages 107-120
Registers and the Bus....Pages 121-131
Shift Registers and Counter Registers....Pages 132-147
Multipliers....Pages 148-169
Dividers....Pages 170-182
The Function Unit....Pages 183-191
The Memory....Pages 192-204
Input and Output Devices....Pages 205-216
The Control Unit....Pages 217-234
Loaders: Running Machine-Code Programs....Pages 235-246
Assembly Code....Pages 247-267
Assemblers: Running Assembly-Code Programs....Pages 268-293
Subroutines....Pages 294-312
Macros and Macro Assemblers....Pages 313-322
Addressing Modes....Pages 323-336
Multiple-Address Instructions....Pages 337-353
Floating-Point Arithmetic....Pages 354-367
High-Level Programming Languages....Pages 368-382
Compilers and Interpreters....Pages 383-396
Syntax Analysis and Parsing Algorithms....Pages 397-410
Code Generation....Pages 411-425
Operating Systems....Pages 426-449
Back Matter....Pages 450-454