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Lecture 10 Hardware Interface

Several views of computers to follow:

rip->instruction->decode->registers->alu->ear->data RAM etc.

First, a very complex computer architecture, the Itanium, IA_64
Just look at all those registers!

Then at end, three level cache.

 cs411_IA_64.pdf
Probably need to do   firefox cs411_IA_64.pdf
or use Adobe Reader  /afs/umbc.edu/users/s/q/squire/pub/www/images/cs411_IA_64.pdf

Block diagram of typical Intel computer.



Modern Intel computers do not directly execute our assembly language
instructions. Decoders are used to make a sequence of RISC instructions,
executed in the "simple architecture" below.



The computer architecture has a TLB, translation lookaside buffer
that translates the addresses you see in the debugger, "virtual addresses"
into a "physical address" actual RAM addresses.
That address then goes into a cache that may have the RAM  data or
instruction, thus avoiding the slow RAM access.
One TLB with cache looks like the figure below.



Now, a very simple architecture to follow and instruction execution.
This is after decoding instructions and TLB and cache.
PC program counter is the rip instruction pointer as a RAM address.
Instruction Memory would be  section .text
Data Memory would be  section .data  and  section .bss
ALU executes instructions  mov, add, sub, imul, idiv, shift, etc.
This architecture is not Intel.



Intel 82C55 needs assembly language, book page 396

peripheral interface adapter details

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