| Computer Organization and Design, Fourth Edition, Fourth Edition: The Hardware/Software Interface (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) |  | Authors: David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Category: Book
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.5 x 1.7
ISBN: 0123744938
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.6
EAN: 9780123744937
ASIN: 0123744938
Publication Date: November 10, 2008
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This textbook provides a basic introduction to the fundamentals of current computer designs. As the title suggests, the text skirts the border between hardware and software. After an overview of the subject and a discussion of performance, the book launches into technical matter such as instruction sets, how they are constrained by the underlying processor hardware, the constraints on their design, and more. An excellent critique of computer arithmetic methods leads to a high-level discussion on processor design. Following is a great introduction to pipelining, nice coverage of memory issues, and solid attention to peripherals. The book concludes with a brief discussion of the additional issues inherent in multiprocessing machines. The extremely lucid description is grounded in real-world examples. Interesting exercises help reinforce the material, and each section contains a write-up of the historical background of each idea. IComputer Organization and Design/I is accessible to the beginner, but also offers plenty of valuable knowledge for experienced engineers.
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The classic textbook for computer systems analysis and design, iComputer Organization and Design/i, has been thoroughly updated to provide a new focus on the revolutionary change taking place in industry today: the switch from uniprocessor to multicore microprocessors. This new emphasis on parallelism is supported by updates reflecting the newest technologies with examples highlighting the latest processor designs, benchmarking standards, languages and tools. As with previous editions, a MIPS processor is the core used to present the fundamentals of hardware technologies, assembly language, computer arithmetic, pipelining, memory hierarchies and I/O. Along with its increased coverage of parallelism, this new edition offers new content on Flash memory and virtual machines as well as a new and important appendix written by industry experts covering the emergence and importance of the modern GPU (graphics processing unit), the highly parallel, highly multithreaded multiprocessor optimized for visual computing. brbrInstructors looking for 3rd edition teaching materials should e-mail textbook@elsevier.com. brbrA new exercise paradigm allows instructors to reconfigure the 600 exercises included in the book to easily generate new exercises and solutions of their own. brbrA CD provides a toolkit of simulators and compilers along with tutorials for using them as well as additional problems and solutions, and references.
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Excellent book March 5, 2010
Tony Hill (Sacarmento, CA)
This book begins to put all the pieces together as far as the hardware/software interface.
br /This is a really good book to understand how the computer works.
 Ok, but not worth the buy February 20, 2010
Honest Review
There were many mistakes in this book...specifically in the answers provided. Our teacher used this book and specifically told us that there were mistakes in the solution guide, and he's been using all the previous revisions of this book since it was first published. He also said each edition was progressively getting worse.
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br /My experience with this book was that it really focused on the wrong things. MIPS is no longer a dominant architecture, and although easy to use as a teaching tool, I really despised being taught architecture using a dead architecture. This book was a decent exposure to assembly language programming. As far as architectures goes though, I thought it fell short.
 Excellent Product February 14, 2010
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Great product, Super fast shipping A+++ February 12, 2010
Alexander Tubman (NY)
my experience shows that companies should post more than just the state on the from location. this ended up shipping from a shop right down the street from me. although it had a price tag on it for $45, and I paid ~10. other than that, shipping was great and book was in excellent condition.
Interesting, but a difficult read February 8, 2010
Michael F (Phoenix, AZ)
This is the textbook for my Computer Organization class and has been challenging to read through. It presents a lot of information but I don't feel it is presented in a very clear organized way. More like it throws a lot of information at you and you have to figure out that the three different equations it just showed you are really all the same one just with different labeling. The exercises range from easy to "what in the world are they asking me?"
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br /Overall it feels that they are unsure who their audience is and randomly switch from easily understandable information to getting very technical and assuming that you already have a lot of background in what they are covering.
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