| The Microarchitecture of Pipelined and Superscalar Computers Contributor(s): Omondi, Amos R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1441950818 ISBN-13: 9781441950819 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Hardware - Personal Computers - Pcs - Computers | Systems Architecture - General - Computers | Computer Science |
| Dewey: 004.165 |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.87 lbs) 266 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is intended to serve as a textbook for a second course in the im- plementation (Le. microarchitecture) of computer architectures. The subject matter covered is the collection of techniques that are used to achieve the highest performance in single-processor machines; these techniques center the exploitation of low-level parallelism (temporal and spatial) in the processing of machine instructions. The target audience consists students in the final year of an undergraduate program or in the first year of a postgraduate program in computer science, computer engineering, or electrical engineering; professional computer designers will also also find the book useful as an introduction to the topics covered. Typically, the author has used the material presented here as the basis of a full-semester undergraduate course or a half-semester post- graduate course, with the other half of the latter devoted to multiple-processor machines. The background assumed of the reader is a good first course in computer architecture and implementation - to the level in, say, Computer Organization and Design, by D. Patterson and H. Hennessy - and familiarity with digital-logic design. The book consists of eight chapters: The first chapter is an introduction to all of the main ideas that the following chapters cover in detail: the topics covered are the main forms of pipelining used in high-performance uniprocessors, a taxonomy of the space of pipelined processors, and performance issues. It is also intended that this chapter should be readable as a brief "stand-alone" survey. |