Machine Structure in Computer Abstraction and Technology | ECE 438, Study notes of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

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Computer Abstractions and

Technology

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Terms

• Abstraction:
  • A model that renders lower-level details of computer systems temporarily invisible in order to facilitate design of sophisticated systems.
• Compiler:
  • A program that translates high-level language statements into assembly language statements.
• Assembler:
  • A program that translates a symbolic version of instructions into the binary version.

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Fallacies and Pitfalls

• Pitfall:

– “Ignoring the inexorable progress of

hardware when planning a new

machine”

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Reading…

• Chapter 1 of the textbook

Design of Computers Lesson 3 – Slide 14/

Credits

• Slides 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 have been

“borrowed” from Machine Structures.

Spring 2006, UC Berkeley, Professor John

Wawrzynek.

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