Computer Architecture - (Second Edition)

Author: Zhang Chenxi et al.
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: This book is a national-level planning textbook for general higher education under the "15th Five-Year Plan," listed as a "Textbook for the 21st Century," and won the second prize for the Excellent Textbook of Ordinary Higher Colleges in 2002. To track and reflect the development of computer technology, the new edition of the textbook has undergone significant revisions based on the previous version, adding new content and further improving readability and systematicity. In addition to focusing on the basic concepts, principles, structures, and analysis methods of computer architecture, the book emphasizes the use of quantitative analysis methods, enabling readers to analyze and design computer architecture more specifically and practically. The book consists of 7 chapters: Basic Concepts of Computer Architecture, Computer Instruction Set Architecture Design, Pipeline Technology, Instruction-Level Parallelism, Memory Hierarchy, Input/Output Systems, and Multiprocessors. The main content includes: the concept of computer architecture and the development of parallelism concepts, DLX, the basic concepts and performance analysis of pipelines, pipeline-related issues, vector processors, dynamic instruction scheduling, superword and very long instruction word (VLIW) technology, branch processing techniques, basic knowledge of cache and methods to improve performance, inexpensive redundant array of independent disks (RAID), I/O system performance analysis, memory architecture, interconnection networks, synchronization mechanisms, and simultaneous multithreading (SMT) technology of multiprocessors. The book provides a relatively comprehensive introduction to the cutting-edge developments in modern computer architecture and is accompanied by numerous case studies. It can serve as a textbook for undergraduate or graduate students in computer science and related fields studying computer architecture, as well as a reference for computer professionals engaged in the field.