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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 004 EAN: 9780123706065 Edition: 3 ISBN: 0123706068 Label: Morgan Kaufmann Manufacturer: Morgan Kaufmann Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 621 Publication Date: June 01, 2007 Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Studio: Morgan Kaufmann Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: What's New in the Third Edition, Revised Printing The same great book gets better! This revised printing features all of the original content along with these additional features: . Appendix A (Assemblers, Linkers, and the SPIM Simulator) has been moved from the CD-ROM into the printed book . Corrections and bug fixes Third Edition features New pedagogical features . Understanding Program Performance - Analyzes key performance issues from the programmer's perspective . Check Yourself Questions - Helps students assess their understanding of key points of a section . Computers In the Real World - Illustrates the diversity of applications of computing technology beyond traditional desktop and servers . For More Practice - Provides students with additional problems they can tackle . In More Depth - Presents new information and challenging exercises for the advanced student New reference features . Highlighted glossary terms and definitions appear on the book page, as bold-faced entries in the index, and as a separate and searchable reference on the CD. . A complete index of the material in the book and on the CD appears in the printed index and the CD includes a fully searchable version of the same index. . Historical Perspectives and Further Readings have been updated and expanded to include the history of software R&D. . CD-Library provides materials collected from the web which directly support the text. In addition to thoroughly updating every aspect of the text to reflect the most current computing technology, the third edition . Uses standard 32-bit MIPS 32 as the primary teaching ISA. . Presents the assembler-to-HLL translations in both C and Java. . Highlights the latest developments in architecture in Real Stuff sections: - Intel IA-32 - Power PC 604 - Google's PC cluster - Pentium P4 - SPEC CPU2000 benchmark suite for processors - SPEC Web99 benchmark for web servers - EEMBC benchmark for embedded systems - AMD Opteron memory hierarchy - AMD vs. 1A-64 New support for distinct course goals Many of the adopters who have used our book throughout its two editions are refining their courses with a greater hardware or software focus. We have provided new material to support these course goals: New material to support a Hardware Focus . Using logic design conventions . Designing with hardware description languages . Advanced pipelining . Designing with FPGAs . HDL simulators and tutorials . Xilinx CAD tools New material to support a Software Focus . How compilers work . How to optimize compilers . How to implement object oriented languages . MIPS simulator and tutorial . History sections on programming languages, compilers, operating systems and databases On the CD . NEW: Search function to search for content on both the CD-ROM and the printed text . CD-Bars: Full length sections that are introduced in the book and presented on the CD . CD-Appendixes: Appendices B-D . CD-Library: Materials collected from the web which directly support the text . CD-Exercises: For More Practice provides exercises and solutions for self-study . In More Depth presents new information and challenging exercises for the advanced or curious student . Glossary: Terms that are defined in the text are collected in this searchable reference . Further Reading: References are organized by the chapter they support . Software: HDL simulators, MIPS simulators, and FPGA design tools . Tutorials: SPIM, Verilog, and VHDL . Additional Support: Processor Models, Labs, Homeworks, Index covering the book and CD contents Instructor Support Instructor support provided on textbooks.elsevier.com: . Solutions to all the exercises . Figures from the book in a number of formats . Lecture slides prepared by the authors and other instructors . Lecture notes Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Uneven, intermediate-level qualitative treatmentThe first few chapters are a bit wasted. If this is your first exposure to computer internals, the material there is densely packed and not so well organized. The authors take a sort of patchy top-down approach to introducing the computer, visiting instructions, high-level languages, compilers, arithmetic, memory addressing, etc. I found a much more coherent and satisfying introduction in Patt's "Introduction to Computing Systems", which starts from transistors and works its way up to C over a ... Read More Rating:  - Simple, clear introductionFor anyone who wants to know how simple processing and memory works. IO devices chapter was so thin as to be useless, but the main parts of the book were comprehensive. Used as a textbook in class, but I will keep it as a reference due to high quality and readability. Rating: - Poorly organized and has lots of filling materialThe book presents computer architecture around MIPS and supporting hardware organization. Division of the book into printed material and extra material on CD is a bad choice. One ends up printing the CD material anyway. Especially, it is always good to have a quick digital design review at the beginning of a Computer Organization course. But the review is pushed onto the CD. The authors claim they made this weird choice to keep the the size of the book in check. They could have achieved ... Read More Rating: - Good Reference, Easy ReadingI like the layout of the book, it works great as a reference, but since I am just beginning my education of computer architecture, I'm actually just reading through it. The first chapter is bland, covering basic computer knowledge topics, such as how mice work. After that, the book's depth increases dramatically. It give through explanations of compilers and assemblers with ample examples in C and assembly language. There are hints of Java-based examples, but I haven't read far enough to ... Read More Rating:  - Horrible BookThe main problem with this book is that many details are omitted, yet show up in illustrations, examples and problems in the back of the book. Nowhere are these concepts explained, just used. The writing is dry, which could be forgiven if this were a quality book. The sections on SPIM do not even come close to showing enough so the reader could actually use it effectively. Many of the diagrams are too cluttered to be of any use whatsoever. I would elaborate ... Read More 
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