Author: Sir John Pope Hennessy
Publisher: Juniper Grove
Keywords: ireland, raleigh, walter, sir
Number of Pages: 274
Published: 2007-06-18
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1603550607
ISBN-13: 9781603550604

For years Sir Walter Raleigh was one of Queen Elizabeth’s most influential advisors on Irish policy. Today, we remember him as the loyal courtier and charming explorer who planted the first potato in Ireland and brought tobacco crops to the isle. But his years in Ireland were filled with turmoil, his efforts there ultimately ill-fated. By the time he left Ireland he had helped add another stormy chapter to the long, troubled history between Ireland and England.

Authors:John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson,
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Keywords: computer, architecture, series, design, kaufmann, approach, fourth, quantitative, morgan
Number of Pages: 704
Published: 2006-09-27
List price: $88.95
ISBN-10: 0123704901
ISBN-13: 9780123704900

The era of seemingly unlimited growth in processor performance is over: single chip architectures can no longer overcome the performance limitations imposed by the power they consume and the heat they generate. Today, Intel and other semiconductor firms are abandoning the single fast processor model in favor of multi-core microprocessors--chips that combine two or more processors in a single package. In the fourth edition of Computer Architecture, the authors focus on this historic shift, increasing their coverage of multiprocessors and exploring the most effective ways of achieving parallelis

Authors:David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy,
Publisher: Morgan Kaufma
Keywords: computer, design, fourth, kaufmann, architecture, series, morgan, software, organization, hardware, interface
Number of Pages: 912
Published: 2008-11-10
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 0123744938
ISBN-13: 9780123744937

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,

Authors:David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy,
Publisher: Morgan Kaufma
Keywords: interface, third, revised, software, hardware, organization, design, computer
Number of Pages: 621
Published: 2007-06-20
List price: $64.95
ISBN-10: 0123706068
ISBN-13: 9780123706065

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,

Authors:John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson,
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Keywords: approach, quantitative, student, international, architecture, computer
Number of Pages: 1136
Published: 2002-05-29
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1558607242
ISBN-13: 9781558607248

Authors:John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson,
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Keywords: approach, quantitative, architecture, computer
Number of Pages: 1136
Published: 2002-05-31
List price: $104.00
ISBN-10: 1558605967
ISBN-13: 9781558605961

This best-selling title, considered for over a decade to be essential reading for every serious student and practitioner of computer design, has been updated throughout to address the most important trends facing computer designers today. In this edition, the authors bring their trademark method of quantitative analysis not only to high performance desktop machine design, but also to the design of embedded and server systems. They have illustrated their principles with designs from all three of these domains, including examples from consumer electronics, multimedia and web technologies, and

Authors:David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy, Peter J. Ashen
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Keywords: computer, design, architecture, kaufmann, series, morgan, interface, organization, hardware, software, third
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2004-08-02
List price: $64.95
ISBN-10: 1558606041
ISBN-13: 9781558606043

This best selling text on computer organization has been thoroughly updated to reflect the newest technologies. Examples highlight the latest processor designs, benchmarking standards, languages and tools. As with previous editions, a MIPs processor is the core used to present the fundamentals of hardware technologies at work in a computer system. The book presents an entire MIPS instruction set instruction by instruction the fundamentals of assembly language, computer arithmetic, pipelining, memory hierarchies and I/O. A new aspect of the third edition is the explicit connection b