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The Hardware/Software Interface
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Fourth Edition
By
David Patterson, University of California, Berkeley, USA
John Hennessy, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Description
The classic textbook for computer systems analysis and design, Computer Organization and Design, has been thoroughly updated
to provide a new focus on the revolutionary change taking place in industry today: the switch from uniprocessor to multicore microprocessors.
This new emphasis on parallelism is supported by updates reflecting the newest technologies with examples highlighting the latest processor
designs, benchmarking standards, languages and tools. As with previous editions, a MIPS processor is the core used to present the fundamentals
of hardware technologies, assembly language, computer arithmetic, pipelining, memory hierarchies and I/O. Along with its increased coverage
of parallelism, this new edition offers new content on Flash memory and virtual machines as well as a new and important appendix written
by industry experts covering the emergence and importance of the modern GPU (graphics processing unit), the highly parallel, highly multithreaded
multiprocessor optimized for visual computing.
Instructors looking for 3rd edition teaching materials should e-mail textbook@elsevier.com.
Audience
Professional digital system designers, programmers, application developers, and system software developers.
Undergraduate students in
Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering courses in Computer Organization, Computer Design, ranging from Sophomore
required courses to Senior Electives
Contents
Computer Abstractions and Technology; Instructions: Language of the Computer; Arithmetic for Computers; Assessing and Understanding Performance;
The Processor; Enhancing Performance with Pipelining; Large and Fast: Exploiting Memory Hierarchy; Storage, Networks and Other Peripherals;
Multiprocessors and Clusters; Mapping Control to Hardware; A Survey of RISC ARchitectures for Desktop, SErver, and Embedded Computers.
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Paperback, 912 pages, publication date: OCT-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-374493-7
Imprint: MORGAN KAUFFMAN
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