Advanced Computer Architectures: A Design Space Approach

Description

This timely book provides an unconventional and up-to-date overview of all the important computer architectures and is one of the first texts to present all the relevant concepts of advance architecture classes by exploring their design spaces.

Advanced Computer Architectures: A Design Space Approach will prove an indispensable guide for anyone who needs to be acquainted with the relevant concepts and solutions introduced in recent years to the dramatically changing world of computer architecture. For the student of advance level courses in computer architecture, this book will provide a comprehensive and accessible overview of the subject whilst its strong orientation will make it an invaluable reference for the practitioner.

Key Features

• Explores design spaces for each architecture class and exposes evolution of concepts and design issues
• Provides an up-to-date overview of significant architecture classes, including unique in-depth coverage of superscalar architectures as well as multithreaded, shared and distributed memory MIMDs, and associative and neural architectures
• Identifies which concepts and design choices have been made use of in important processors and illustrates significant trends and surpasses and viable concepts
• Case Studies and tables show micro architectural details of relevant processors, including the Pentium Pro, Power PC 604, Power PC 620 and R10000, allowing comparisons between them

Table of Contents

1. Computational Models
2. The Concept of Computer Architecture
3. Introduction to Parallel Processing
4. Introduction to ILP-Processors
5. Pipelined Processors
6. VLIW Architectures
7. Superscalar Processors
8. Processing of Control Transfer Instructions
9. Code Scheduling for ILP-Processors
10. Introduction to Data-Parallel Architectures
11. SIMD Architectures
12. Introduction to MMID Architectures
13. Data-Parallel Pipelined and Systolic Architectures
14. Vector Architectures
15. Introduction to MIMD Architectures
16. Multi-threaded Architectures
17. Distributed Memory MIMD Architectures
18. Shared Memory MIMD Architectures
19. Outlook