Computer organization and design

by David A. Patterson

In addition to thoroughly updating every aspect of the text to reflect the most current computing technology, the third edition uses standard 32-bit MIPS 32 as the primary teaching ISA; presents the assembler-to-HLL translations in both C and Java; highlights the latest developments in architecture in Real Stuff sections: Intel IA-32, Power PC 604, Googles PC cluster, Pentium P4, SPEC CPU2000 benchmark suite for processors, SPEC Web99 benchmark for web servers, EEMBC benchmark for embedded systems, AMD Opteron memory hierarchy, AMD vs. 1A-64.

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