Computer architecture : a quantitative approach
- 3rd ed.
- San Francisco : [S.n.], 2003
- 1 v. (varias pag.) : il. ; 24 cm.
Incluye ejercicios, referencias bibliográficas e índice. --
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 -- Appendix A. Pipelining: basic and intermediate concepts -- Appendix B. Solutions to selected excercices -- 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.