Chapter 4: Computer Architecture #

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Topcis covered in “Computer-Anatomie”: anatomy - systems and subsystems - human computers - von Neumann architecture - analog-digital-conversion - digital-analog-conversion - bus systems - syncrhonous and asynchronous communication - basic operating system - subroutines and procedure calls - hierarchical bus systems -polling and interrupts - direct memory access - multiple processors - speedup and Amdahl’s law - software processes - scheduling - deadlocks and mutual exclusion - modern operating systems - booting.

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The following illustrations from the book Inside the Computer’s Brain (Dem Computer ins Hirn geschaut) are available for download and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Using the figures

You are free to use, share, and adapt the figures below for any non-commercial purposes, e. g., for oral presentations and classes. Attribution should be given to both book illustrator (Susanne Staubli) and book author (Eckart Zitzler), so please include an acknowledgement such as: “Illustration by Susanne Staubli, Eckart Zitzler”.

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