Computer Architecture

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The book emphasizes both underlying theory and actual designs, and covers a wide array of topics and links computer architecture to other subfields of computing. Computer Architecture: From Microprocessors to Supercomputers provides a comprehensive introduction to this thriving and exciting field. Emphasizing both underlying theory and actual designs, the book covers a wide array of topics and links computer architecture to other subfields of computing. The material is presented in lecture-sized chapters that make it easy for students to understand the relationships between various topics and to see the "big picture." The short chapters also allow instructors to order topics in the course as they like. The text is divided into seven parts, each containing four chapters. Part I provides context and reviews prerequisite topics including digital computer technology and computer system performance. Part II discusses instruction-set architecture. The next two parts cover the central processing unit. Part III describes the structure of arithmetic/logic units and Part IV is devoted to data path and control circuits. Part V deals with the memory system. Part VI covers input/output and interfacing topics and Part VII introduces advanced architectures. Key Features An Instructor's Manual (0-19-522213-X) and CD with PowerPoint?« presentations (0-19-522219-9) are available to adopters. Companion website via the link at http://www.oup.com/us/PARHAMI gives complete preface, contents at a glance, PowerPoint?« lecture aids, and other materials.

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Behrooz Parhami is Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has written several textbooks, including Computer Arithmetic (OUP, 2000), and more than 200 research papers. He is a fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the British Computer Society (BCS). He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and a distinguished member of the Informatics Society of Iran, for which he served as a founding member and the first president. Table of Contents Preface BACKGROUND AND MOTIVATION Combinational Digital Circuits Digital Circuits with Memory Computer System Technology Computer Performanc INSTRUCTION-SET ARCHITECTURE Instructions and Addressing Procedures and Data Assembly Language Programs Instruction-Set Variations THE ARITHMETIC/LOGIC UNIT Number Representation Adders and Simple ALUs Multipliers and Dividers Floating-Point Arithmetic DATA PATH AND CONTROL Instruction Execution Steps Control Unit Synthesis Pipelined Data Paths Pipeline Performance Limits MEMORY SYSTEM DESIGN Main Memory Concepts Cache Memory Organization Mass Memory Concepts Virtual Memory and Paging INPUT/OUTPUT AND INTERFACING Input/Output Devices Input/Output Programming Buses, Links, and Interfacing Context Switching and Interrupts ADVANCED ARCHITECTURES Road to Higher Performance Vector and Array Processing Shared-Memory Multiprocessing Distributed Multicomputing Index