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Computer Architecture, Sixth Edition: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

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Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Sixth Edition has been thought to be essential reading by instructors, students and practitioners of computer design for over 20 years. The sixth edition of this classic textbook is fully revised with the contemporary developments in processor and system architecture. It now features examples from the RISC-V (RISC Five) instruction set architecture, a modern RISC instruction set developed and designed to be a free and openly adoptable standard. Additionally it is a new chapter on domain-specific architectures and an up to date chapter on warehouse-scale computing that features the first public information on Google’s newest WSC.

True to its original mission of demystifying computer architecture, this edition continues the longstanding tradition of focusing on areas where the most exciting computing innovation is happening, at the same time as at all times keeping an emphasis on good engineering design.

  • Includes a new chapter on domain-specific architectures, explaining how they’re the only path forward for improved performance and energy efficiency given the end of Moore’s Law and Dennard scaling
  • Features the first publication of several DSAs from industry
  • Features extensive updates to the chapter on warehouse-scale computing, with the first public information on the most recent Google WSC
  • Offers updates to other chapters including new material dealing with the usage of stacked DRAM; data on the performance of new NVIDIA Pascal GPU vs. new AVX-512 Intel Skylake CPU; and extensive additions to content covering multicore architecture and organization
  • Includes “Putting It All Together” sections near the end of every chapter, providing real-world technology examples that demonstrate the principles covered in each chapter
  • Includes review appendices in the printed text and additional reference appendices to be had online
  • Includes up to date and improved case studies and exercises

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