See MIPS Run: Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) - Softcover

Sweetman, Dominic

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0120884216 ISBN 13: 9780120884216

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann, 2006

Synopsis

This second edition is not only a thorough update of the first edition, it is also a marriage of the best-known RISC architecture-MIPS-with the best-known open-source OS-Linux. The first part of the book begins with MIPS design principles and then describes the MIPS instruction set and programmers' resources. It uses the MIPS32 standard as a baseline (the 1st edition used the R3000) from which to compare all other versions of the architecture and assumes that MIPS64 is the main option. The second part is a significant change from the first edition. It provides concrete examples of operating system low level code, by using Linux as the example operating system. It describes how Linux is built on the foundations the MIPS hardware provides and summarizes the Linux application environment, describing the libraries, kernel device-drivers and CPU-specific code. It then digs deep into application code and library support, protection and memory management, interrupts in the Linux kernel and multiprocessor Linux. Sweetman has revised his best-selling MIPS bible for MIPS programmers, embedded systems designers, developers and programmers, who need an in-depth understanding of the MIPS architecture and specific guidance for writing software for MIPS-based systems, which are increasingly Linux-based.

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About the Author

Dominic Sweetman is a member of the last generation of programmers who could reasonably hope to understand computer systems from bottom to top. His rich career began with low-level coding, progressing from OS development to LANs to distributed systems. Dominic is an experienced designer and developer of hardware systems, CPUs, networks, and operating systems. He was a founder member of Whitechapel Workstations, and in 1988 founded Algorithmics, a MIPS consulting firm of which he is the director. Dominic lives with his partner, two grown-up children and three cats in north London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0120884216
• ISBN 13: 9780120884216
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 512