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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 004.22 EAN: 9781558606043 Edition: 3 ISBN: 1558606041 Label: Morgan Kaufmann Manufacturer: Morgan Kaufmann Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 656 Publication Date: August 02, 2004 Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Studio: Morgan Kaufmann Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: This best selling text on computer organization has been thoroughly updated to reflect the newest technologies. Examples highlight the latest processor designs, benchmarking standards, languages and tools. As with previous editions, a MIPs processor is the core used to present the fundamentals of hardware technologies at work in a computer system. The book presents an entire MIPS instruction set—instruction by instruction—the fundamentals of assembly language, computer arithmetic, pipelining, memory hierarchies and I/O. A new aspect of the third edition is the explicit connection between program performance and CPU performance. The authors show how hardware and software components--such as the specific algorithm, programming language, compiler, ISA and processor implementation--impact program performance. Throughout the book a new feature focusing on program performance describes how to search for bottlenecks and improve performance in various parts of the system. The book digs deeper into the hardware/software interface, presenting a complete view of the function of the programming language and compiler--crucial for understanding computer organization. A CD provides a toolkit of simulators and compilers along with tutorials for using them. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Great job this book was very affordable Shipping was a little slow but the book Was in great condition as promised thanx man!! Rating: - older version is betterwell organize content. however some materials had moved to the CD ROM which is not convenience for study. recommend getting the older version if possible. 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 
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