Computer Architecture

For more than 20 years, instructors, students, and practitioners of computer design have considered Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Sixth Edition to be required reading. The sixth edition of this classic textbook from Hennessy and Patterson, winners of the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to the computing field, has been completely revised to reflect the most recent advances in processor and system architecture. The text now includes examples from the RISC V (RISC Five) instruction set architecture, which is a modern RISC instruction set that was developed and designed to be a free and openly adoptable standard. It also includes a new chapter on domain-specific architectures and an updated chapter on warehouse-scale computing, which includes the first publicly available information on Google's newest WSC.

This edition, true to its original mission of demystifying computer architecture, continues the longstanding tradition of focusing on areas where the most exciting computing innovation occurs while always emphasizing good engineering design.

• Winner of a 2019 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty) from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association. Includes a new chapter on domain-specific architectures, which explains why they are the only way forward for improved performance and energy efficiency given the end of Moore's Law and Dennard scaling.
• Contains the first publication of several DSAs from the industry. Contains extensive updates to the warehouse-scale computing chapter, including the first public information on the newest Google WSC.
• Other chapters have been updated, with new material dealing with the use of stacked DRAM, data on the performance of the new NVIDIA Pascal GPU vs. the new AVX 512 Intel Skylake CPU, and extensive additions to content covering multicore architecture and organization.
• Included near the end of each chapter are "Putting It All Together" sections that provide real-world technology examples that demonstrate the principles covered in each chapter.
• Review appendices are included in the printed text, and additional reference appendices are available online.
• Case studies and exercises have been updated and improved.
• The 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award was given to John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson for pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures, which has had a lasting impact on the microprocessor industry.

Author: John L. Hennessy and David Patterson

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