Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface / Edition 5

by David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy

Overview

Computer Organization and Design, Fifth Edition, is the latest update to the classic introduction to computer organization. The text now contains new examples and material highlighting the emergence of mobile computing and the cloud. It explores this generational change with updated content featuring tablet computers, cloud infrastructure, and the ARM (mobile computing devices) and x86 (cloud computing) architectures. The book uses a MIPS processor core to present the fundamentals of hardware technologies, assembly language, computer arithmetic, pipelining, memory hierarchies and I/O.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. There is also a new discussion of the Eight Great Ideas of computer architecture. Parallelism is examined in depth with examples and content highlighting parallel hardware and software topics. The book features the Intel Core i7, ARM Cortex-A8 and NVIDIA Fermi GPU as real-world examples, along with a full set of updated and improved exercises.

This new edition is an ideal resource for professional digital system designers, programmers, application developers, and system software developers. It will also be of interest to undergraduate students in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering courses in Computer Organization, Computer Design, ranging from Sophomore required courses to Senior Electives.

• Winner of a 2014 Texty Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association
• Includes new examples, exercises, and material highlighting the emergence of mobile computing and the cloud
• Covers parallelism in depth with examples and content highlighting parallel hardware and software topics
• Features the Intel Core i7, ARM Cortex-A8 and NVIDIA Fermi GPU as real-world examples throughout the book
• Adds a new concrete example, "Going Faster," to demonstrate how understanding hardware can inspire software optimizations that improve performance by 200 times
• Discusses and highlights the "Eight Great Ideas" of computer architecture: Performance via Parallelism; Performance via Pipelining; Performance via Prediction; Design for Moore's Law; Hierarchy of Memories; Abstraction to Simplify Design; Make the Common Case Fast; and Dependability via Redundancy
• Includes a full set of updated and improved exercises

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780124077263
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	10/10/2013
Series:	Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design Series
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	800
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

ACM named David A. Patterson a recipient of the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award for pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry. David A. Patterson is the Pardee Chair of Computer Science, Emeritus at the University of California Berkeley. His teaching has been honored by the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, the Karlstrom Award from ACM, and the Mulligan Education Medal and Undergraduate Teaching Award from IEEE. Patterson received the IEEE Technical Achievement Award and the ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award for contributions to RISC, and he shared the IEEE Johnson Information Storage Award for contributions to RAID. He also shared the IEEE John von Neumann Medal and the C & C Prize with John Hennessy. Like his co-author, Patterson is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Computer History Museum, ACM, and IEEE, and he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame. He served on the Information Technology Advisory Committee to the U.S. President, as chair of the CS division in the Berkeley EECS department, as chair of the Computing Research Association, and as President of ACM. This record led to Distinguished Service Awards from ACM, CRA, and SIGARCH.

ACM named John L. Hennessy a recipient of the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award for pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry. John L. Hennessy is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1977 and was, from 2000 to 2016, its tenth President. Prof. Hennessy is a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM; a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Science, and the American Philosophical Society; and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among his many awards are the 2001 Eckert-Mauchly Award for his contributions to RISC technology, the 2001 Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award, and the 2000 John von Neumann Award, which he shared with David Patterson. He has also received seven honorary doctorates.

Table of Contents

1. Computer Abstractions and Technology 2. Instructions: Language of the Computer 3. Arithmetic for Computers 4. The Processor 5. Large and Fast: Exploiting Memory Hierarchy 6. Parallel Processors from Client to Cloud

APP A Assemblers, Linkers, and the SPIM Simulator APP B The Basics of Logic Design APP C Graphics and Computing GPUs APP D Mapping Control to Hardware; APP E A Survey of RISC Architectures for Desktop, Server, and Embedded Computers

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

The classic introduction to computer organization now updated for mobile computing and the cloud!

Editorial Reviews

"...the fundamental computer organization book, both as an introduction for readers with no experience in computer architecture topics, and as an up-to-date reference for computer architects."—Computing Reviews, July 22 2014

From the Publisher

Patterson and Hennessy's Computer Organization and Design has long been recognized as an exceptionally thorough and reliable introduction to computer design. Now they've fully updated their classic and linked it even more systematically to real-world practice.

You'll now find "Real Stuff" sections in every chapter: from Google clusters to advanced pipelining, AMD's Opteron memory hierarchy to recent innovations in Intel's Pentium line. You'll find new hardware coverage: FPGAs, HDL simulators, logic design conventions, and more. Plenty of new software coverage, too, from optimizing compilers to implementing object-oriented languages.

The meat of the book remains as good as ever: detailed, accessible introductions to modern instruction sets, memory, storage, networking, multiprocessing, clustering, and more. How it all fits. Why it works as it does. Whether you're primarily interested in hardware or software, this is the rock-solid grounding you'll need to succeed. Bill Camarda, from the October 2007 Read Only

The Barnes & Noble Review
Even today, to write great software, it helps to understand the underlying hardware. And if you’re a hardware architect, you’d better understand how your choices will impact developers. Computer Organization and Design, Third Edition will help software and hardware folks understand each other. The authors even provide separate learning paths for each audience.

Using the actual MIPS 32 architecture to ground their discussions in reality, David Patterson and John Hennessy illuminate computer arithmetic, pipelining, memory hierarchies, I/O, multiprocessing, clustering, and much more. Throughout, welcome “Fallacies and Pitfalls” sections clear up much of the misinformation that bedevils the field.

This edition’s been heavily updated, both for clarity and content. Especially worth noting: a stronger focus on the relationship between hardware and program performance, and a comparison of the Pentium 4 with AMD’s influential new Opteron. Bill Camarda

Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2003 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.

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