《经典原版书库·计算机组成与设计:硬件·软件接口(英文版·第4版)》具有以下特色:
涵盖从串行计算到并行计算的革命性变革,新增了关于并行化的一章,并且每章中还有一些强调并行硬件和软件主题的小节。
新增一个由NVIDIA的**科学家和架构主管撰写的附录,介绍了现代GPU的出现和重要性,**详细描述了这个针对可视计算进行了优化的高度并行化、多线程、多核的处理器。
描述一种度量多核性能的独特方法-Roofline模型,自带AMD Opteron X4、Intel Xeon 5000、Sun
UltraSPARC T2和IBM Cell的基准测试和分析。
涵盖一些关于闪存和虚拟机的新内容。
提供了大量富有启发性的练习题。
将AMD Opteron X4和Intel
Nehalem作为贯穿《经典原版书库·计算机组成与设计:硬件·软件接口(英文版·第4版)》的实例。
用SPEC CPU2006组件更新了所有处理器性能实例。 计算机组成与设计-硬件/软件接口-(英文版.第4版)-(附光盘)_(美)帕特森,(美)亨尼斯_机械工业出版社_

1 Computer Abstractions and Technology
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Below Your Program
1.3 Under the Covers
1.4 Performance
1.5 The Power Wall
1.6 The Sea Change: The Switch from Uniprocessors to
Multiprocessors
1.7 Real Stuff. Ma:nufacturing and Benchmarking the AMD Opteron
X4
1.8 Fallacies and Pitfalls
1.9 Concluding Remarks
1.10 Historical Perspective and Further Reading
1.11 Exercises
2 Instructions:l.anguage of the Computer
2.1 Introduction
2.2 0perations of the Computer Hardware
2.3 0perands of the Computer Hardware
2.4 Signed and Unsigned Numbers
2.5 Representing Instructions in the Computer
2.6 Logical Operations
2.7 Instructions for Making Decisions
2.8 Supporting Procedures in Computer Hardware
2.9 Communicating with People
2.10 MIPS Addressing for 32-Bit Immediates and Addresses
2.11 Parallelism and Instructions: Synchronization
2.12 Translating and Starting a Program
2.13 A C Sort Example to Put It All Together2.14 Arrays versus
Pointers
2.15 Advanced Material: Compiling C and Interpreting Java
2.16 Real Stuff:ARM Instructions
2.17 Real Stuff: x86 Instructions
2.18 Fallacies and Pitfalls
2.19 Concluding Remarks
2.20 Historical Perspective and Further Reading
2.21 Exerases
3 Arithmetic for Computers
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Addition and Subtraction
3.3 Multiplication
3.4 Division
3.5 Floating Point
3.6 Parallelism and Computer Arithmetic: Associativity
3.7 Real Stuff: Floating Point in the x86
3.8 Fallacies and Pitfalls
3.9 Concluding Remarks
3.10 Historical Perspective and Further Reading
3.11 Exerases
4 The Processor
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Logic Design Conventions
4.3 Building a Datapath
4.4 A Simple Implementation Scheme
4.5 An Overview of Pipelining
4.6 Pipelined Datapath and Control
4.7 Data Hazards: Forwarding versus Stalling
4.8 Control Hazards
4.9 Exceptions
4.10 Parallelism and Advanced Instruction-Level Parallelism
4.11 Real Stuff the AMD Opteron X4 (Barcelona) Pipeline
4.12 Advanced Topic: an Introduction to Digital Design Using a
Hardware Design Language to Describe and Model a Pipeline and More
Pipelining Illustrations
4.13 Fallciaes and Pitfalls
4.14 Concluding Remarks
4.15 Historical Perspective and Further Reading
4.16 Exerases
5 Large and Fast: Exploiting Memory Hierarchy
6 Storage and Other I/O Topics
7 Multicores, Multiprocessors, and Clusters
A Graphics and Computing GPUs A-2
B Assemblers, Linkers, and the SPIM Simulator B-2
C The Basics of Loglc Design C-2
D Mapping Control to Hardware D-2
e A Survey of RISC Architectures for Desktop, Server, and Embedded
Computers E-2
G Glossary G-1
F Further Reading FR-1

这本*畅销的计算机组成书籍经过全面更新,关注现今发生在计算机体系结构领域的革命性变革:从单处理器发展到多核微处理器,从串行发展到并行。与前几版一样,《经典原版书库·计算机组成与设计:硬件·软件接口(英文版·第4版)》采用了MIPS处理器来展示计算机硬件技术、汇编语言、计算机算术、流水线、存储器层次结构以及I/O等基本功能。此外,《经典原版书库·计算机组成与设计:硬件·软件接口(英文版·第4版)》还包括一些关于ARM和x86体系结构的介绍。