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Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Computer Design
Chapter 2: Instruction-level Parallelism and its Exploitation
Chapter 3: Advanced Techniques for Exploiting Instruction-level
Parallelism and their Limits
Chapter 4: Multiprocessors and Thread-level Parallelism
Chapter 5: Memory Hierarchy Design
Chapter 6: Storage Systems
Appendix A: Pipelining: Basic and Intermediate
Concepts
Appendix B: Instruction Set Principles and Examples
Appendix C: Introduction to Memory Hierarchy
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Appendix D: Embedded Systems (contributor: Thomas M. Conte, North
Carolina State University)
Appendix E: Interconnection Networks (contributor: Timothy M.
Pinkston, USC and Jose Duato, Simula)
Appendix F: Vector Processors (contributor: Krste Asanovic,
MIT)
Appendix G: Hardware and Software for VLIW and EPIC
Appendix H: Large-Scale Multiprocessors and Scientific Apps
Appendix I: Computer Arithmetic (contributor: David Goldberg, Xerox
PARC)
Appendix J: Survey of Instruction Set Architectures
Appendix K: Historical Perspectives with References
ACM named John L. Hennessy a recipient of the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award for pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry. John L. Hennessy is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1977 and was, from 2000 to 2016, its tenth President. Prof. Hennessy is a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM; a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Science, and the American Philosophical Society; and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among his many awards are the 2001 Eckert-Mauchly Award for his contributions to RISC technology, the 2001 Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award, and the 2000 John von Neumann Award, which he shared with David Patterson. He has also received seven honorary doctorates. David Patterson is the Pardee Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley, which he joined after graduating from UCLA in 1977.His teaching has been honored by the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, the Karlstrom Award from ACM, and the Mulligan Education Medal and Undergraduate Teaching Award from IEEE. Prof. Patterson received the IEEE Technical Achievement Award and the ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award for contributions to RISC, and he shared the IEEE Johnson Information Storage Award for contributions to RAID. He also shared the IEEE John von Neumann Medal and the C & C Prize with John Hennessy. Like his co-author, Prof. Patterson is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Computer History Museum, ACM, and IEEE, and he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame. He served on the Information Technology Advisory Committee to the U.S. President, as chair of the CS division in the Berkeley EECS department, as chair of the Computing Research Association, and as President of ACM. This record led to Distinguished Service Awards from ACM, CRA, and SIGARCH.
“If Neil Armstrong offers to give you a tour of the lunar module,
or Tiger Woods asks you to go play golf with him, you should do it.
When Hennessy and Patterson offer to lead you on a tour of where
computer architecture is going, they call it Computer Architecture:
A Quantitative Approach, 4th Edition. You need one. Tours leave on
the hour. --Robert Colwell, Intel lead designer
“The book has been updated so it covers the latest computer
architectures like the 64-bit AMD Opteron as well as those from
Sun, Intel and other major vendors ... I highly recommend this book
for those learning about computer architecture or those wanting to
understand architectures that differ from those they are currently
using. It does an excellent job of covering most of the major
architectural approaches employed today. --William Wong,
Electronic Design, November 2006
“Computer hardware is entering into a new era, what with multicore
processing, virtualization and other enhancements … Computer
Architecture covers these topics and updates the insightful work in
the earlier editions that laid out the full range of metrics needed
for evaluating processor performance. --Joab Jackson, GCN,
November 20, 2006
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