Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface 2nd Edition

by David A. Patterson (Author), John L. Hennessy (Author)

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The performance of software systems is dramatically affected by how well software designers understand the basic hardware technologies at work in a system. Similarly, hardware designers must understand the far reaching effects their design decisions have on software applications. For readers in either category, this classic introduction to the field provides a deep look into the computer. It demonstrates the relationship between the software and hardware and focuses on the foundational concepts that are the basis for current computer design.

Using a distinctive "learning by evolution" approach the authors present each idea from its first principles, guiding readers through a series of worked examples that incrementally add more complex instructions until they have acquired an understanding of the entire MIPS instruction set and the fundamentals of assembly language. Computer arithmetic, pipelining, and memory hierarchies are treated to the same evolutionary approach with worked examples and incremental drawings supporting each new level of sophistication. The design, performance, and significance of I/O systems is also discussed in depth, and an entire chapter is devoted to the emerging architectures of multiprocessor systems.

* Real Stuff provides relevant, tangible examples of how the concepts from the chapter are implemented in commercially successful products.
* Fallacies and Pitfalls share the hard-won lessons of the authors and other designers in industry.
* Big Pictures allow the reader to keep major insights in focus while studying the details.
* Key terms, all fully defined in an end-of-book glossary, summarize the essential ideas introduced in the chapter.

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This textbook provides a basic introduction to the fundamentals of current computer designs. As the title suggests, the text skirts the border between hardware and software. After an overview of the subject and a discussion of performance, the book launches into technical matter such as instruction sets, how they are constrained by the underlying processor hardware, the constraints on their design, and more. An excellent critique of computer arithmetic methods leads to a high-level discussion on processor design. Following is a great introduction to pipelining, nice coverage of memory issues, and solid attention to peripherals. The book concludes with a brief discussion of the additional issues inherent in multiprocessing machines. The extremely lucid description is grounded in real-world examples. Interesting exercises help reinforce the material, and each section contains a write-up of the historical background of each idea. Computer Organization and Design is accessible to the beginner, but also offers plenty of valuable knowledge for experienced engineers.

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"This book trains the student with the concepts needed to lay a solid foundation for joining this exciting field. More importantly, this book provides a framework for thinking about computer organization and design that will enable the reader to continue the lifetime of learning necessary for staying at the forefront of this competitive discipline."
—John Crawford, Intel Fellow, Director of Microprocessor Architecture, Intel

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Hardcover: 965 pages
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 2 edition (August 15, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781558604285
ISBN-13: 978-1558604285
ASIN: 1558604286
Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 2 x 9.8 inches
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Average Customer Review: 357 customer reviews
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Digital version is junk

February 13, 2015

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

The content of this book is definitely good, but the digital packaging of it is utter crap. This book is designed as a textbook, and as such, when my professor refers to page numbers, I would expect to be able to simply go to the specified page.

Except I can't. Because the digital version is just one long manuscript. One of my friends purchased the actual physical book, and not only does it have page numbers (as it should), the layout itself is both quite different and far superior.

Bottom line, unless they fix the incredibly poor formatting of the digital version, get the physical one if you're using at as a textbook.

54 people found this helpful55 people found this helpful

Better off using google to understand the topics covered.

June 6, 2016

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After finishing my course, I must say that the ramblings of the author(s) make understanding simple concepts very difficult. They interject with unnecessary tangents, reference topics that have not and may not ever be covered. The graphics and illustrations were often confusing and not illustrated well.

I have never been forced to use a worse text in my academic career (and I have several degrees). I hope you don't have to use this book in its current form.

As other reviewers have notes, the binding of the book is the worst I have seen in a book. I have read books over 200 years old in better shape (I bought mine new).

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Excellent Textbook, Solid Price

January 4, 2018

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I've had a bit of a love/hate relationship with this textbook.
I'm currently at university, and I took a class in Computer Organization this semester. I was definitely unfamiliar with the low-level aspects of Computer Science, so needless to say I was a bit intimidated. However, this textbook thoroughly prepared me for my exams, and I relied on this textbook more than I have any other text for any other class. Not only did it prepare me, but I feel that I have learned more about Computer Science from this textbook than I have from any other.
I've seen some other reviews complain about typos, but I can usually overlook those. There are only two colors in the book (blue and black), but this is obviously to keep prices down (see below). Sometimes I found myself reading the same passages over and over again because I had trouble understanding what the author meant. I definitely get a sense that this edition was a bit rushed, as both the authors have demanding jobs outside of writing textbooks.
I also have a serious issue with the way I couldn't find ANY answers anywhere to the problems in the book. It seems like standard practice to have the odd or even-numbered solutions in the back of the book or online, but I could not locate any. That's really my only complaint about this text, all the other issues I can excuse in some way.
One of the most important points about this textbook is its price. You can easily pick this up for less than $40, which is pretty much a steal compared to some $100 or $200 textbooks. In light of the price, I can excuse the few areas where the cut corners to reduce printing prices.

4 people found this helpful5 people found this helpful

Very good, but too much left onto the accompanying CD-ROM

November 30, 2016

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Most of the text is your generic architecture book, nothing special about it (very good though) except for chapter 4 about designing the microprocessor. This chapter itself makes the book! It presents many details on how to implement a CPU's datapath, both single-cycle and pipelined. This is the kind of material hard to come by in any book on the subject.

My main complain is that too much of the interesting and unique content was pushed into the accompanying CD-ROM. I'd rather have removed some of the generic architecture stuff or the endless pages of exercises that you can find anywhere else and pushed some of this content onto the print!

5 people found this helpful6 people found this helpful

Kindle Version is Unusable

September 17, 2013

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I rented the third edition from the library. The kindle version of this book is very bad. It's incredibly difficult to make sense of the page numbers since they're like 13,420 and it doesn't translate to a standard book version. Additionally, it just hard to navigate. I need to flip around my books to look at the diagrams and it's too hard to do in the Kindle version.

The largest issue though is that I cannot read the table of assembly opcodes at the front. You can't zoom on the image as far as I can tell and since it's an image the table text does not adjust with the rest of the text settings from the Kindle.

I'd return it but it's been two weeks already and I just rented it for ~$17 on the Kindle anyways.

Tried the windows app and the windows 8 tablet app kindle.

Just rent the book or buy it. You'll actually be able to use the book. The real version of the book is pretty good in my opinion. Stay away from the kindle version though.

17 people found this helpful18 people found this helpful

The presentation is a awkward at times and there is a great deal of specific information regarding ARM commands and formats ...

August 10, 2016

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My understanding is that this is something of a standard text on the topic. We used this text in a architecture and organization class. The material itself seems mostly accurate. The presentation is a awkward at times and there is a great deal of specific information regarding ARM commands and formats that can only be gleaned by downloading additional materials. All in all, I would say this is a decent primer, but it is not a great reference.

6 people found this helpful7 people found this helpful

Hard to understand. Really bad binding on the book

April 28, 2017

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This book was required for a class. Even for someone like me with over a decade of IT experience, this book was a hard to read and even harder to understand. But thanks to youtube videos, which helped me understand a lot of the topics covered in this book, I got through my class with an A.

Also, the physical quality of this book is crappy. Pages were literally falling apart as you turn the pages. I returned the first book I rented because of this. The second book is the same. I would have returned it too but I realized I would most likely get another crappy book.

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