COMPUTER ORGANIZATION ARCHITECTURE & Operating Systems IPE

This book provides comprehensive and completely up-to-date coverage of computer organization and architecture. This book covers the leading-edge areas of superscalar design, IA-64 design features and parallel processor organization trends. It meets students' needs by addressing both the fundamental principles as well as the critical role of performance in driving computer design. This book also includes an unparalleled degree of instructor support, supplements and on-line resources. DISTINGUISHING KEY FEATURES: Use of numerous running examples, especially Pentium Unified instructional approach enables reader to evaluate instruction set design issues Expanded superscalar presentation to include the new examples of UltraSparc II and the MIPS R100000 Detailed treatment of bus organization enables reader to better evaluate key design issues Detailed chapter coverage on RISC Extensive treatment of understanding of I/O functions and structures The COMPANION WEBSITE for the book provides support for students, instructors and professionals Links to important up-to-date site related text materials. Provides transparency masters of figures from the book in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format. Lists a set of course notes in PDF for handouts. Includes a set of PowerPoint slides for lecturing.