Computer Organization and Design MIPS Edition: The Hardware/Software InterfaceComputer 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.
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This is the worst written book. Incredibly not suited to help learning. The questions at the end of the chapter are not even taught in the book..
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The questions at end of the chapter are only partially from the material covered in the book. You have to look most of it up elsewhere to answer it. Horrible book for learning. Perhaps the previous versions were good, but this one is horrible. Some of the figures are incorrect and there are typos in some places. I wouldn't be surprised if the authors had their students write a good portion of the book for them.
Contents
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3 Arithmetic for Computers | 176 |
4 The Processor | 242 |
Exploiting Memory Hierarchy | 372 |
6 Parallel Processors from Client to Cloud | 500 |
Assemblers Linkers and the SPIM Simulator | A-2 |
The Basics of Logic Design | B-2 |
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