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Computer Organization and Design MIPS Edition,
Edition 6 The Hardware/Software Interface
By David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy

Publication Date: 20 Nov 2020
Description
Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, Sixth Edition, the leading, award-winning textbook from Patterson and Hennessy used by more than 40,000 students per year, continues to present the most comprehensive and readable introduction to this core computer science topic. Improvements to this new release include new sections in each chapter on Domain Specific Architectures (DSA) and updates on all real-world examples that keep it fresh and relevant for a new generation of students.

Key Features

  • Covers parallelism in-depth, with examples and content highlighting parallel hardware and software topics
  • Includes new sections in each chapter on Domain Specific Architectures (DSA)
  • Discusses and highlights the "Eight Great Ideas" of computer architecture, including 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
About the author
By David A. Patterson, Pardee Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, USA and John L. Hennessy, Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford University, USA
Book details
ISBN: 9780128201091
Page Count: 832
Illustrations : Approx. 320 illustrations
Retail Price : £78.99

9780128122754; 9780128017333; 9780128000564; 9780128119051

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Audience

Undergraduate electrical engineering, computer engineering or computer science students taking a computer organization/computer architecture or computer design course; Professional digital system designers, programmers, application developers, and system software developers

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