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Computer Architecture, Fourth Edition

A Quantitative Approach

By John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson

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| Paperback | 9780123704900

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The era of seemingly unlimited growth in processor performance is over: single chip architectures can no longer overcome the performance limitations imposed by the power they consume and the heat they generate. Today, Intel and other semiconductor firms are abandoning the single fast processor modelContinue

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If anyone is qualified to talk about computer architecture, it's Patterson and Hennessy.
The book contains chapters on basic computer design, instruction set principles, pipelining, instruction-level parallelism, networks, multiprocessors, vector processing, and a whole host of other technolo ... (continue)

If anyone is qualified to talk about computer architecture, it's Patterson and Hennessy.
The book contains chapters on basic computer design, instruction set principles, pipelining, instruction-level parallelism, networks, multiprocessors, vector processing, and a whole host of other technologies that show up in mainstream CPUs.
Each chapter goes in-depth on the topic and shows you the kinds of decisions and tradeoffs that go into the design and implementation of a particular technology.
At the end of each chapter is a section called “Fallacies and Pitfalls,” which shows the reader what to look out for when designing and implementing the technology just discussed.
The chapters also have a “Historical Perspectives” section that gives the history of the development of the technology under consideration.
Finally, an appendix contains a survey of various RISC architectures: MIPS, SPARC, PowerPC, and PA-RISC; there's also an entire appendix devoted to the 80x86.

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