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Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors » (1st Edition)

Book cover image of Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors by John P. Shen

Authors: John P. Shen, Mikko Lipasti, Mikko H. Lipasti
ISBN-13: 9780070570641, ISBN-10: 0070570647
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Date Published: July 2004
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: John P. Shen

Book Synopsis

Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors is an exciting new first edition from John Shen of Carnegie Mellon University & Intel and Mikko Lipasti of the University of Wisconsin—Madison. This book brings together the numerous microarchitectural techniques for harvesting more instruction-level parallelism (ILP) to achieve better processor performance that have been proposed and implemented in real machines. Other advanced techniques from recent research efforts that extend beyond ILP to exploit thread-level parallelism (TLP) are also compiled in this book. All of these techniques, as well as the foundational principles behind them, are organized and presented within a clear framework that allows for ease of comprehension.

This text is intended for an advanced computer architecture course or a course in superscalar processor design. It is written at a level appropriate for senior or first year graduate level students, and can be used by professionals as well.

Table of Contents

1Processor design1
2Pipelined processors39
3Memory and I/O systems105
4Superscalar organization177
5Superscalar techniques217
6The PowerPC 620301
7Intel's P6 microarchitecture329
8Survey of superscalar processors369
9Advanced instruction flow techniques453
10Advanced register data flow techniques519
11Executing multiple threads559

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