This Fourth Revised Edition of Computer Organization and Design includes a complete set of updated and
new exercises, along with improvements and changes suggested by instructors and students. Focusing on the revolutionary
change taking place in industry today--the switch from uniprocessor to multicore microprocessors--this classic
textbook has a modern and up-to-date focus on parallelism in all its forms. Examples highlighting multicore and
GPU processor designs are supported with performance and benchmarking data. As with previous editions, a MIPS processor
is the core used to present the fundamentals of hardware technologies, assembly language, computer arithmetic,
pipelining, memory hierarchies and I/O. Sections on the ARM and x86 architectures are also included.
The Revised Fourth Edition of Computer Organization and Design has been updated with new exercises and
improvements throughout suggested by instructors teaching from the book.
Covers the revolutionary change from sequential to parallel computing, with a chapter on parallelism and sections
in every chapter highlighting parallel hardware and software topics.
Includes an appendix by the Chief Scientist and the Director of Architecture of NVIDIA covering the emergence
and importance of the modern GPU, describing in detail for the first time the highly parallel, highly multithreaded
multiprocessor optimized for visual computing.
The companion CD provides a toolkit of simulators and compilers along with tutorials for using them, as well
as advanced content for further study and a search utility for finding content on the CD and in the printed text.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Computer Abstractions and Technology
Instructions: Language of the Computer
Arithmetic for Computers
Assessing and Understanding Performance
The Processor
Enhancing Performance with Pipelining
Large and Fast: Exploiting Memory Hierarchy
Storage, Networks and Other Peripherals
Multiprocessors and Clusters
Mapping Control to Hardware
A Survey of RISC Architectures for Desktop, Server, and Embedded Computers