Hennessy, John L.

Computer architecture : A quantitative approach / John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson. - Third Edition. - 1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 25 cm.

On t.p. of previous ed. David A Patterson's name appeared first.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fundamentals of computer design --
Instruction set principles and examples --
Instruction-level parallelism and its dynamic exploitation --
Exploiting instruction-level parallelism with software approaches --
Memory hierarchy design --
Multiprocessors and thread-level parallelism --
Storage systems --
Interconnection networks and clusters --
Appendices.

Provides the method of quantitative analysis not only to high performance desktop machine design, but also to the design of embedded and server systems. This work adopts the MIPS 64 as the instruction set architecture. It also covers the instruction sets to include descriptions of digital signal processors, media processors, and others.

1558605967 (cloth : alk. paper) 9781558605961

2001099789


Computer architecture.

QA76.9.A73 / P377 2003

004.22