Microprocessor architecture : from simple pipelines to chip multiprocessors

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Author(s): Jean-Loup Baer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2010

Language: English
Pages: 384
City: New York
Tags: Приборостроение;Микро- и наносистемная техника;


Content: Introduction --
The basics --
Superscalar processors --
Front-end : branch predictio, instruction fetching, and register renaming --
Back-end : instruction scheduling, memory access instructions, and clusters --
The cache hierarchy --
Multiprocessors --
Multithreading and (chip) multiprocessing --
Current limitations and future challenges.