Computer Architecture by Hennessy, John L.; Patterson, David A.;

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This best-selling title, considered for over a decade to be essential reading for every serious student and practitioner of computer design, has been updated throughout to address the most important trends facing computer designers today. In this edition, the authors bring their trademark method of quantitative analysis not only to high performance desktop machine design, but also to the design of embedded and server systems. They have illustrated their principles with designs from all three of these domains, including examples from consumer electronics, multimedia and web technologies, and high performance computing.The book retains its highly rated features: Fallacies and Pitfalls, which share the hard-won lessons of real designers; Historical Perspectives, which provide a deeper look at computer design history; Putting it all Together, which present a design example that illustrates the principles of the chapter; Worked Examples, which challenge the reader to apply the concepts, theories and methods in smaller scale problems; and Cross-Cutting Issues, which show how the ideas covered in one chapter interact with those presented in others. In addition, a new feature, Another View, presents brief design examples in one of the three domains other than the one chosen for Putting It All Together.The authors present a new organization of the material as well, reducing the overlap with their other text, Computer Organization and Design: A Hardware/Software Approach 2/e, and offering more in-depth treatment of advanced topics in multithreading, instruction level parallelism, VLIW architectures, memory hierarchies, storage devices and network technologies.

Also new to this edition, is the adoption of the MIPS 64 as the instruction set architecture. Two new appendixes will be printed in the book: one contains a complete review of the basic concepts of pipelining, the other provides solutions a selection of the exercises. Both will be invaluable to the student or professional learning on her own or in the classroom. Hennessy and Patterson continue to focus on fundamental techniques for designing real machines and for maximizing their cost/performance.

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Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 - Fundamentals of Computer Design
Chapter 2 - Instruction Set Principles and Examples
Chapter 3 - Instruction-Level Parallelism and Its Dynamic Exploitation
Chapter 4 - Exploiting Instruction-Level Parallelism with Software Approaches
Chapter 5 - Memory Hierarchy Design
Chapter 6 - Multiprocessors and Thread-Level Parallelism
Chapter 7 - Storage Systems
Chapter 8 - Interconnection Networks and Clusters
Appendix A - Pipelining: Basic and Intermediate Concepts
Appendix B - Solutions to Selected Exercises Online Appendices
Appendix C - A Survey of RISC Architectures for Desktop, Server, and Embedded Computers
Appendix D - An Alternative to RISC: The Intel 80x86
Appendix E - Another Alternative to RISC: The VAX Architecture
Appendix F - The IBM 360/370 Architecture for Mainframe Computers
Appendix G - Vector Processors Revised by Krste Asanovic
Appendix H - Computer Arithmetic by David Goldberg
Appendix I - Implementing Coherence Protocols
References
Index