Learning Computer Architecture With Raspberry Pi® by Upton, Eben -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Table of Contents Introduction

Cambridge Cut to the Chase The Knee in the Curve Forward the Foundation

Chapter 1: The Shape of a Computer Phenomenon

Growing Delicious, Juicy Raspberries System-on-a-Chip An Exciting Credit Card-Sized Computer What Does the Raspberry Pi Do? Meeting and Greeting the Raspberry Pi Board The Future

Chapter 2: Recapping Computing

The Cook as Computer The Box That Follows a Plan Voltages, Numbers and Meaning Operating Systems: The Boss of the Box

Chapter 3: Electronic Memory

There Was Memory Before There Were Computers Rotating Magnetic Memory Magnetic Core Memory Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) Address Lines and Data Lines Combining Memory Chips into Memory Systems Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) The Raspberry Pi Memory System Cache Virtual Memory

Chapter 4: ARM Processors and Systems-on-a-Chip

The Incredible Shrinking CPU Digital Logic Primer Inside the CPU Rethinking the CPU: CISC vs. RISC ARMs from Little Acorns Grow ARM11 Coprocessors ARM Cortex Systems on a Single Chip

Chapter 5: Programming

Programming from a Height How Native-Code Compilers Work Pure Text Interpreters Bytecode Interpreted Languages Data Building Blocks Code Building Blocks Object-Oriented Programming A Tour of the GNU Compiler Collection Toolset

Chapter 6: Non-Volatile Storage

Punched Cards and Tape Magnetic Recording and Encoding Schemes Magnetic Disk Storage Partitions and File Systems Optical Discs Ramdisks Flash Storage

Chapter 7: Wired and Wireless Ethernet

The OSI Reference Model for Networking Ethernet Routers and the Internet Wi-Fi

Chapter 8: Operating Systems

Introduction to Operating Systems The Kernel: The Basic Facilitator of Operating Systems Enablers and Assistants to the Operating System Operating Systems for Raspberry Pi

Chapter 9: Video Codecs and Video Compression

The First Video Codecs Changing with the Times Motion Search

Chapter 10: 3D Graphics

A Brief History of 3D Graphics The OpenGL Graphics Pipeline Modern Graphics Hardware Open VG General Purpose GPUs

Chapter 11: Audio

Can You Hear Me Now? Analog vs. Digital Sound and Signal Processing 1-Bit DAC I2S Raspberry Pi Sound Input/Output Sound on the Raspberry Pi

Chapter 12: Input/Output

Introducing Input/Output I/O Enablers Raspberry Pi GPIO

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