The Computer Organization and Design, 5th Edition moves forward into the post-PC era with new examples, exercises, and material highlighting the emergence of mobile computing and the cloud. This generational change is emphasized and explored with updated content featuring tablet computers, cloud infrastructure, and the ARM (mobile computing devices) and x86 (cloud computing) architectures.
Because an understanding of modern hardware is essential to achieving good performance and energy efficiency, this edition adds a new concrete example, “Going Faster,” used throughout the text to demonstrate extremely effective optimization techniques. Also new to this edition is discussion of the “Eight Great Ideas” of computer architecture.
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.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Computer Abstractions and Technology
Chapter 2. Instructions: Language of the Computer
Chapter 3. Arithmetic for Computers
Chapter 4. The Processor
Chapter 5. Large and Fast: Exploiting Memory Hierarchy
Chapter 6. Parallel Processors from Client to Cloud
Appendix A. Assemblers, Linkers, and the SPIM Simulator
Appendix B. The Basics of Logic Design
Appendix C. Graphics and Computing GPUs
Appendix D. Mapping Control to Hardware
Appendix E. A Survey of RISC Architectures for Desktop, Server, and Embedded Computers
Book Details
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Title: Computer Organization and Design, 5th Edition
Author: David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy
Length: 800 pages
Edition: 5
Language: English
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Publication Date: 2013-10-10
ISBN-10: 0124077269
ISBN-13: 9780124077263