Computer organization and design : the hardware/software interface
Front Cover -- Computer Organization and Design -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Preface -- About This Book -- About the Other Book -- Changes for the Fifth Edition -- Instructor Support -- Concluding Remarks -- Acknowledgments for the Fifth Edition -- 1 Computer Abstractions and Technology -- 1.1 Introduction -- Classes of Computing Applications and Their Characteristics -- Welcome to the PostPC Era -- What You Can Learn in This Book -- 1.2 Eight Great Ideas in Computer Architecture -- Design for Moore's Law -- Use Abstraction to Simplify Design -- Make the Common Case Fast -- Performance via Parallelism -- Performance via Pipelining -- Performance via Prediction -- Hierarchy of Memories -- Dependability via Redundancy -- 1.3 Below Your Program -- From a High-Level Language to the Language of Hardware -- 1.4 Under the Covers -- Through the Looking Glass -- Touchscreen -- Opening the Box -- A Safe Place for Data -- Communicating with Other Computers -- 1.5 Technologies for Building Processors and Memory -- 1.6 Performance -- Defining Performance -- Measuring Performance -- CPU Performance and Its Factors -- Instruction Performance -- The Classic CPU Performance Equation -- 1.7 The Power Wall -- 1.8 The Sea Change: The Switch from Uniprocessors to Multiprocessors -- 1.9 Real Stuff: Benchmarking the Intel Core i7 -- SPEC CPU Benchmark -- SPEC Power Benchmark -- 1.10 Fallacies and Pitfalls -- 1.11 Concluding Remarks -- Road Map for This Book -- 1.12 Historical Perspective and Further Reading -- The First Electronic Computers -- Commercial Developments -- Measuring Performance -- The Quest for an Average Program -- SPECulating about Performance -- The Growth of Embedded Computing -- A Half-Century of Progress -- Further Reading -- 1.13 Exercises -- 2 Instructions: Language of the Computer -- 2.1 Introduction
Computer Program, English, 2014
Morgan Kaufmann, Amsterdam, 2014