Computer Organization and Design Third Edition: The Hardware/Software Interface Third Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

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A revised printing for this book will be available in June 2007! Whats New in the Third Edition Revised Printing The same great book gets better! The revised printing features all of the original content along with these additional features: . Appendix A (Assemblers Linkers and the SPIM Simulator) has been moved from the CD-ROM into the printed book . Corrections and bug fixes Click here to request a desk copy of the revised printing! About the Third Edition In addition to thoroughly updating every aspect of the text to reflect the most current computing technology the third edition Uses standard 32-bit MIPS 32 as the primary teaching ISA. Presents the assembler-to-HLL translations in both C and Java. Highlights the latest developments in architecture in Real Stuff sections: Intel IA-32 Power PC 604 Googles PC cluster Pentium P4 SPEC CPU2000 benchmark suite for processors SPEC Web99 benchmark for web servers EEMBC benchmark for embedded systems AMD Opteron memory hierarchy AMD vs. 1A-64 New support for distinct course goals Many of the adopters who have used our book throughout its two editions are refining their courses with a greater hardware or software focus. We have provided new material to support these course goals: New material to support a Hardware Focus Using logic design conventions Designing with hardware description languages Advanced pipelining Designing with FPGAs HDL simulators and tutorials Xilinx CAD tools New material to support a Software Focus How compilers Work How to optimize compilers How to implement object oriented languages MIPS simulator and tutorial History sections on programming languages compilers operating systems and databases Whats New in the Third Edition New pedagogical features Understanding Program Performance -Analyzes key performance issues from the programmers perspective Check Yourself Questions -Helps students assess their understanding of key points of a section Computers In the Real World -Illustrates the diversity of applications of computing technology beyond traditional desktop and servers For More Practice -Provides students with additional problems they can tackle In More Depth -Presents new information and challenging exercises for the advanced student New reference features Highlighted glossary terms and definitions appear on the book page as bold-faced entries in the index and as a separate and searchable reference on the CD. A complete index of the material in the book and on the CD appears in the printed index and the CD includes a fully searchable version of the same index. Historical Perspectives and Further Readings have been updated and expanded to include the history of software R&D. CD-Library provides materials collected from the web which directly support the text. On the CD CD-Bars: Full length sections that are introduced in the book and presented on the CD CD-Appendixes: The entire set of appendixes CD-Library: Materials collected from the web which directly support the text CD-Exercises: For More Practice provides exercises and solutions for self-study In More Depth presents new information and challenging exercises for the advanced or curious student Glossary: Terms that are defined in the text are collected in this searchable reference Further Reading: References are organized by the chapter they support Software: HDL simulators MIPS simulators and FPGA design tools Tutorials: SPIM Verilog and VHDL Additional Support: Processor Models Labs Homeworks Index covering the book and CD contents Instructor Support Instructor Support is provided in a password-protected site to adopters who request the password from our sales representative Solutions to all the exercises Figures from the book in a number of formats Lecture slides prepared by the authors and other instructors Lecture notes System Requirements Operating System Most of the content on this CD can be used under any operating system that includes an HTML browser and a PDF viewer. This includes Windows 98 or later Mac OS 9 and OS X and most Linux and Unix systems. Some contributed software on this CD is operating system specific. See the installation instructions on the Software page for details. HTML Browser The navigation framework and some of the content on this CD is delivered in HTML and JavaScript. It is recommended that you install the latest version of your favorite HTML browser to view this CD. The content has been verified under Windows 2000 with the following browsers: Internet Explorer 6.0 Mozilla 1.6 Netscape 7.1 Opera 7.23. Under Mac OS X with the following browsers: Internet Explorer 5.2.3 Mozilla 1.6 Netscape 7.1 Safari 1.2. And under Mandrake Linux with the following browser: Galeon 1.3.8. The content is designed to be viewed in a browser window that is at least 720 pixels wide. You may find the content does not display well if your display is not set to at lea