Michel Dubois, Murali Annavaram, Per StenströmCambridge University Press, 8/30/2012EAN 9780521886758, ISBN10: 0521886759Hardcover, 562 pages, 25.2 x 19.2 x 2.9 cmLanguage: EnglishTeaching fundamental design concepts and the challenges of emerging technology, this textbook prepares students for a career designing the computer systems of the future. In-depth coverage of complexity, power, reliability and performance, coupled with treatment of parallelism at all levels, including ILP and TLP, provides the state-of-the-art training that students need. The whole gamut of parallel architecture design options is explained, from core microarchitecture to chip multiprocessors to large-scale multiprocessor systems. All the chapters are self-contained, yet concise enough that the material can be taught in a single semester, making it perfect for use in senior undergraduate and graduate computer architecture courses. The book is also teeming with practical examples to aid the learning process, showing concrete applications of definitions. With simple models and codes used throughout, all material is made open to a broad range of computer engineering/science students with only a basic knowledge of hardware and software.1. Introduction2. Impact of technology3. Processor microarchitecture4. Memory hierarchies5. Multiprocessor systems6. Interconnection networks7. Coherence, synchronization, and memory consistency8. Chip multiprocessors9. Quantitative evaluations.'... an excellent tutorial of computer architecture fundamentals from the basic technology via processor and memory architecture to chip multiprocessors ... an excellent instructive book worth using.' Uri Weiser, Technion
