Index

accumulator

5.5

ADD

5.5

addresses

5.1

addressing sizes

1.3

application programs

1.5

arithmetic logic unit

1.2

arithmetic with signed binary integers

4.2

addition

4.2.1

multiplication

4.3

subtraction

4.2.1

assembler

1.5

assembly language

5.

biased exponent

2.3.2

binary coded decimal

3.1

bus structures

1.3

bus-connected computers

1.4

buses

1.2

cache

1.3

level 1

1.3

level 2

1.3

central clock

1.3

central processing unit

1.2

compilers

1.5

control logic

1.3

control unit

1.2 | 1.3

diminished radix-complement

2.2.2

distance between code characters

3.5.2

distance two code

3.5.2

double-error detecting codes

3.5.4

endian alignment

1.3

big

1.3

little

1.3

error detecting codes

3.5.2

Excess-3 code

3.3.1

faster computing

1.4

faster electronics

1.4

file management subsystem

1.5

filesystem

1.5

floating-point arithmetic unit

1.2

floating-point data file

1.3

floating-point numbers

2.3

components

2.3.2

structure

2.3.1

Gray code

3.3.2

hamming codes

3.5.3

derivation of

3.5.3

i/o time

1.6

input/output subsystem

1.5

instruction decoder

1.3

instruction register

1.3

instruction sequencing

5.2

instructions

5.1

LDW

5.5

main memory unit

1.2 | 1.3

mantissa

2.3.2

memory address register

1.3

memory data register

1.3

memory management subsystem

1.5

MIPS

6.

architecture

6.1

memory addressing

6.3

registers

6.2

motherboard

1.2

multitasking

1.5

MV

5.5

number systems

2.

operating system

1.5

operating system time

1.6

parity

3.5.2

even

3.5.2

odd

3.5.2

probability of detection

3.5.2

performance

1.6

performance measurement

1.6

pipelining

1.4

polynomial codes

3.5.5

processor performance equation

1.6

processor time

1.6

program counter

1.3

program time

1.6

radix-complement

2.2.3

Random Access Memory

1.3

reflective codes

3.4.2

registers

1.3

dedicated

1.3

general purpose

1.3

self-complementing codes

3.4.1

shared main memory multiprocessor

1.4

shift

4.1

left

4.1.2

right

4.1.1

signed numbers

2.2

diminished radix-complement

2.2.2

radix-complement

2.2.3

signed-magnitude

2.2.1

signed-magnitude

2.2.1

significand

2.3.2

software

1.5

SPEC

1.6

SPEC rating

1.6

structure of a digital computer

1.2

STW

5.5

superpiplining

1.4

superscalar computers

1.4

symmetric multiprocessing

1.4

transmission errors

3.5

sources of

3.5.1

types of computers

1.1

analog

1.1.1

digital

1.1.2

unsigned numbers

2.1

fractional conversion

2.1.2

integer conversion

2.1.1

unweighted codes

3.3

Excess-3 code

3.3.1

Gray code

3.3.2

very long instruction word

1.4

weighted codes

3.2

negative

3.2.3

number possible

3.2.2

positive

3.2.1

word

1.3