High-Performance Computer Architecture (Addison-Wesley Series in Electrical & Computer Engineering) - Hardcover

Stone, Harold Samuel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0201513773 ISBN 13: 9780201513776

Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1990

Synopsis

This book on computer architecture presents design ideas embodied in many high-performance machines and stresses techniques for evaluating them. Stone develops a proper understanding of the design process by treating the various trade-offs that exist in design choices and shows how good designs make efficient use of technology.

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From the Back Cover:

This update of the popular book on computer architecture presents design ideas embodied in many high-performance machines and stresses techniques for evaluating them. Stone develops a proper understanding of the design process by treating the various trade-offs that exist in designing choices, and shows how good designs make efficient use of technology.

Features

• Teaches techniques for the design and analysis of high-performance machines
• Develops students' intuition for design by treating various tradeoffs that exist in design choices
• Discusses many important topics: RISC architectures, interconnection meshes, Cache coherent and multiprocessors, and Cache Memory.
• Includes enhanced descriptions of RISC Processors
• Expands material on Cache Memory Analysis
• Current technology in RISC with a focused look on super scalar
• Additional memory models and techniques for doing Cache design
• New porposals for coherent memory systems in System C parallel processors
• Both design and thought problems and problems with limiting parameters are provided

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About this edition

• Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0201513773
• ISBN 13: 9780201513776
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 459