John L. Hennessy Livres

A new edition of the best-selling title, considered for over a decade to be essential reading for every serious student and practitioner of computer design Computer Architecture 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. Presents state-of-the-art design examples Updates all the examples and figures with the most recent benchmarks, such as SPEC 2000. Expands coverage of instruction sets to include descriptions of digital signal processors, media processors, and multimedia extensions to desktop processors The book retains its highly rated features: Fallacies and Pitfalls, Historical Perspectives, Putting it all Together, Worked Examples and Cross-Cutting Issues A new feature, Another View, presents brief design examples in one of the three domains

"This comprehensively researched, well-written book represents the definitive account of Robert E. Lee's triumph over Union leader John Pope in the summer of 1862." - Publishers Weekly číst celé

The book delves into parallelism, offering comprehensive examples and content that focus on both hardware and software aspects. Each chapter features new sections on Domain Specific Architectures (DSA), enhancing the discussion. It emphasizes the "Eight Great Ideas" of computer architecture, which include strategies for improving performance through parallelism, pipelining, prediction, and design considerations like Moore's Law, memory hierarchy, abstraction, optimizing common cases, and ensuring dependability through redundancy.

Focusing on the RISC-V open source instruction set architecture, this edition offers a thorough introduction to computer organization and design, appealing to over 40,000 students annually. It emphasizes modern computing applications, including cloud and mobile environments, while providing a user-friendly format. An online companion website enhances the learning experience with additional resources such as advanced content, appendices, a glossary, references, and links to software tools, making it a valuable resource for both students and educators.

The era of seemingly unlimited growth in processor performance is over: single chip architectures can no longer overcome the performance limitations imposed by the power they consume and the heat they generate. Today, Intel and other semiconductor firms are abandoning the single fast processor model in favor of multi-core microprocessors--chips that combine two or more processors in a single package. In the fourth edition of Computer Architecture , the authors focus on this historic shift, increasing their coverage of multiprocessors and exploring the most effective ways of achieving parallelism as the key to unlocking the power of multiple processor architectures. Additionally, the new edition has expanded and updated coverage of design topics beyond processor performance, including power, reliability, availability, and dependability.

This text demonstrates the relationships between the software and hardware and focuses on the fundamental concepts that are the basis for current computer design. The authors present the idea from its first principles, incrementally adding complexity through a series of worked examples.

"Presents the fundamentals of hardware technologies, assembly language, computer arithmetic, pipelining, memory hierarchies and I/O"--Provided by publisher

Scholar, engineer, philanthropist, leader. In this new book, former Stanford President John Hennessy draws on his experience as an educator and technology entrepreneur to offer thoughtful and visionary guidance on leadership and service.

Das Buch bietet eine umfassende Einführung in die Grundlagen des Rechnerentwurfs und behandelt zentrale Themen wie Leistung, Kosten und Befehlssatzentwurf. Es untersucht verschiedene Alternativen und Prinzipien des Befehlssatzes sowie spezifische Beispiele und deren Nutzung. Die Implementierung von Prozessoren, Pipelining und Vektorprozessoren werden detailliert erläutert, gefolgt von einem tiefen Einblick in den Entwurf von Speicherhierarchien und Ein-/Ausgabe-Systemen. Zusätzlich enthält das Buch einen Anhang zur Rechnerarithmetik, der grundlegende Konzepte der Festkomma- und Gleitkommaarithmetik behandelt, einschließlich Addition, Multiplikation und Division, sowie deren Beschleunigung und Genauigkeit. Ein weiterer Anhang bietet vollständige Befehlssatztabellen für verschiedene Architekturen wie VAX, System/360 und 8086, während detaillierte Messungen an diesen Systemen und dem DLX-Befehlssatz im nächsten Anhang analysiert werden. Der Vergleich von Zeit- und Häufigkeitsmessungen gibt Einblicke in die Zeitverteilung der Befehle verschiedener Maschinen. Der Überblick über RISC-Architekturen schließt mit einer Einführung in Addressierungsarten, Befehlsformate und spezielle Befehle verschiedener Architekturen ab. Das Werk endet mit einer Zusammenstellung der Literaturquellen und einem Sachwortverzeichnis, das die wichtigsten Themen zusammenfasst.