The new ARM Edition of Computer Organization and Design features a subset of the ARMv8-A architecture, which is used to present the fundamentals of hardware technologies, assembly language, computer arithmetic, pipelining, memory hierarchies, and I/O.
With the post-PC era now upon us, Computer Organization and Design moves forward to explore this generational change with examples, exercises, and material highlighting the emergence of mobile computing and the Cloud. Updated content featuring tablet computers, Cloud infrastructure, and the ARM (mobile computing devices) and x86 (cloud computing) architectures is included.
An online companion Web site provides links to a free version of the DS-5 Community Edition (a free professional quality tool chain developed by ARM), as well as additional advanced content for further study, appendices, glossary, references, and recommended reading.
Key Features
- Covers parallelism in depth with examples and content highlighting parallel hardware and software topics
- Features the Intel Core i7, ARM Cortex-A53, and NVIDIA Fermi GPU as real-world examples throughout the book
- Adds a new concrete example, "Going Faster," to demonstrate how understanding hardware can inspire software optimizations that improve performance by 200X
- Discusses and highlights the "Eight Great Ideas" of computer architecture: Performance via Parallelism; Performance via Pipelining; Performance via Prediction; Design for Moore's Law; Hierarchy of Memories; Abstraction to Simplify Design; Make the Common Case Fast; and Dependability via Redundancy.
- Includes a full set of updated exercises
2 Instructions: Language of the Computer
3 Arithmetic for Computers
4 The Processor
5 Large and Fast: Exploiting Memory Hierarchy
6 Parallel Processors from Client to Cloud
A The Basics of Logic Design
B Graphics and Computing GPUs
C Mapping Control to Hardware
D A Survey of RISC Architectures
- Patterson and Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, 5th Edition, 2014, 9780124077263, $89.95
- Hennessy and Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 5th Edition, 20125, 9780123838728, $89.95
I used this book for teaching my computer architecture class.
Need Access to Instrucoptr resoruces. Looking for them for four months
Using the book for a Computer Architecture class.
It's a good text - I'm using the ARM version this term because our labs are based on an ARM processor. Next term, I'm going to rewrite the labs for RISC-V and migrate to that version of the text.
This book is very systematic and worth adopting in every computer organization class. There is few typos and modifications that needs attention in the instructor manual's site, whereas the book has very few things to take care of especially when updated to the ARM version. I will try and list them and send on a separate feedback
Está muy bien, pero creo que nos viene mejor para la asignatura el Risc-V
A timeless text on computer architecture updated for modern applications. Thank you!
I will be using this text for the first time in the Spring semester and will have better feedback after that.
I'm adopting this book for my course of Digital System Architectures