Computer organization & Design

The hardware / Software Interface

David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy

966 pages, parution le 01/01/1997 (2^eme édition)

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Résumé

"This book trains the student with the concepts needed to lay a solid foundation for joining this exciting field. More importantly, this book provides a framework for thinking about computer organization and design that will enable the reader to continue the lifetime of learning necessary for staying at the forefront of this competitive discipline."

--John Crawford
Intel Fellow
Director of Microprocessor Architecture, Intel

The performance of software systems is dramatically affected by how well software designers understand the basic hardware technologies at work in a system. Similarly, hardware designers must understand the far reaching effects their design decisions have on software applications. For readers in either category, this classic introduction to the field provides a deep look into the computer. It demonstrates the relationship between the software and hardware and focuses on the foundational concepts that are the basis for current computer design.

Using a distinctive "learning by evolution" approach the authors present each idea from its first principles, guiding readers through a series of worked examples that incrementally add more complex instructions until they have acquired an understanding of the entire MIPS instruction set and the fundamentals of assembly language. Computer arithmetic, pipelining, and memory hierarchies are treated to the same evolutionary approach with worked examples and incremental drawings supporting each new level of sophistication. The design, performance, and significance of I/O systems is also discussed in depth, and an entire chapter is devoted to the emerging architectures of multiprocessor systems.

Special features in each chapter

Real Stuff provides relevant, tangible examples of how the concepts from the chapter are implemented in commercially successful products.
Fallacies and Pitfalls share the hard-won lessons of the authors and other designers in industry.
Big Pictures allow the reader to keep major insights in focus while studying the details.
Key terms, all fully defined in an end-of-book glossary, summarize the essential ideas introduced in the chapter.

Table of Contents:

Computer Abstractions and technology
The Role of Performance
Instructions: Language of the Machine
Arithmetic for Computers
The Processor: Datapath and Control
Enhancing Performance with Pipelining
Large and Fast: Exploiting Memory Hierarchy
Interfacing Processors and Peripherals
Multiprocessors
Assemblers, Linkers, and the SPIM Simulator
The Basics of Logic Design
Mapping Control to Hardware

L'auteur - David A. Patterson

David A. Patterson est enseignant à l'université de Californie, à Berkeley, où il est titulaire de la chaire d'informatique. Il a reçu le prix John von Neumann en 2001, conjointement avec John L. Hennessy, pour les recherches dont cet ouvrage rend compte. Il fut associé au projet RISC 1, qui est à l'origine de l'architecture SPARC (Sun Microsystems) et RAID. Le traducteur : Daniel Etiemble, ingénieur en électronique et docteur ès sciences informatiques, est professeur à l'université Paris Sud (centre d'Orsay) où il enseigne l'architecture des ordinateurs. Il a été professeur deux ans à l'université de Toronto.

L'auteur - John L. Hennessy

John L. Hennessy est le président de l'université de Stanford et le collaborateur d'organismes tels l'IEEE et l'ACM. Titulaire de nombreux prix, il est à l'origine de plusieurs applications commerciales, dont l'architecture des multiprocesseurs DASH et Origin (Silicon Graphics). Il est cofondateur de la société MIPS, qui a développé le premier microprocesseur RISC.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Morgan Kaufmann
Auteur(s)	David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy
Parution	01/01/1997
Édition	2^eme édition
Nb. de pages	966
Format	19 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	1640g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781558604919
ISBN13	978-1-55860-491-9