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Updated throughout to address the most important trends facing computer designers, this text brings quantitative analysis not only to high performance desktop machine design, but also to the design of embedded and server systems. The principles are illustrated with designs from all these domains.
List of contents
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
