Hennessy, John L. Computer organization and design : : the hardware/software interface / [electronic resource] / John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson.. — San Mateo, Calif. : : Morgan Kaufmann,, c1994.. — xxiv, 648, [203] p. : : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Computer abstractions and technology -- The role of performance -- Instructions : language of the machine -- Arithmetic for computers -- The processor : datapath and control -- Enhancing performance with pipelining -- Large and fast : exploiting memory hierarchy -- Interfacing processors and peripherals -- Parallel processors -- Appendices. Assemblers, linkers and the SPIM simulator / James R. Larus ; The basics of logic design ; Mapping control to hardware ; Introducing C to Pascal programmers ; Another approach to instruction set architecture : VAX.