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High-Performance Computer Architecture (Addison-Wesley Series in Electrical & Computer Engineering)

High-Performance Computer Architecture (Addison-Wesley Series in Electrical & Computer Engineering)
By Harold S. Stone

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This popular book on computer architecture presents design ideas embodied in many high-performance machines and stresses techniques for evaluating them. Stone develops a proper understanding of the design process by treating the various trade-offs that exist in design choices and shows how good designs make efficient use of technology.


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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #2369089 in Books
  • Published on: 1993-02-05
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 512 pages

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This update of the popular book on computer architecture presents design ideas embodied in many high-performance machines and stresses techniques for evaluating them. Stone develops a proper understanding of the design process by treating the various trade-offs that exist in designing choices, and shows how good designs make efficient use of technology.

Features
  • Teaches techniques for the design and analysis of high-performance machines
  • Develops students' intuition for design by treating various tradeoffs that exist in design choices
  • Discusses many important topics: RISC architectures, interconnection meshes, Cache coherent and multiprocessors, and Cache Memory.
  • Includes enhanced descriptions of RISC Processors
  • Expands material on Cache Memory Analysis
  • Current technology in RISC with a focused look on super scalar
  • Additional memory models and techniques for doing Cache design
  • New porposals for coherent memory systems in System C parallel processors
  • Both design and thought problems and problems with limiting parameters are provided


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