The Microarchitecture of Pipelined and Superscalar Computers

1. Auflage. Softcover version of original hardcover Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-1-4419-5081-9
Verlag: Springer US

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 429 g

This book is intended to serve as a textbook for a second course in the im plementation (Le. microarchitecture) of computer architectures. The subject matter covered is the collection of techniques that are used to achieve the highest performance in single-processor machines; these techniques center the exploitation of low-level parallelism (temporal and spatial) in the processing of machine instructions. The target audience consists students in the final year of an undergraduate program or in the first year of a postgraduate program in computer science, computer engineering, or electrical engineering; professional computer designers will also also find the book useful as an introduction to the topics covered. Typically, the author has used the material presented here as the basis of a full-semester undergraduate course or a half-semester post graduate course, with the other half of the latter devoted to multiple-processor machines. The background assumed of the reader is a good first course in computer architecture and implementation - to the level in, say, Computer Organization and Design, by D. Patterson and H. Hennessy - and familiarity with digital-logic design. The book consists of eight chapters: The first chapter is an introduction to all of the main ideas that the following chapters cover in detail: the topics covered are the main forms of pipelining used in high-performance uniprocessors, a taxonomy of the space of pipelined processors, and performance issues. It is also intended that this chapter should be readable as a brief "stand-alone" survey.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Omondi, Amos R.

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Elektronik Mikroprozessoren
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Hochleistungsrechnen, Supercomputer
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Rechnerarchitektur
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Daten / Datenbanken Zeichen- und Zahlendarstellungen
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Fundamentals of Pipelining.- 2. Timing and Control of Pipelines.- 3. High-Performance Memory Systems.- 4. Control Flow: Branching and Control Hazards.- 5. Data Flow: Detecting and Resolving Data Hazards.- 6. Vector Pipelines.- 7. Interrupts and Branch Mispredictions.