Computer Organization and Design: Hardware Software Interface (2nd Edition)

Paperback. Pub Date: December 2003 Pages: 703 Publisher: Department of Tsinghua University Press. University of California. Berkeley. Patterson. Professor. Department of Computer Science. Stanford University computer professor Hennesssy very respected scholar and pioneer in the field of modern computer design. John Hennessy proficient in hardware and software. is the technical leader of the legendary MIPS compiler and generations of MIPS hardware products. David Patterson is one of the first advocate of RISC. He created a RISC word. and define the meaning of RISC. Sun's SPARC processor's principal adviser. He RAID (Inexpensive Disks Redundant Array). brought the industrial revolution of the disk storage of large amounts of data services. and proposed the concept of NOW (Network of Workstations). The book is a comprehensive and systematic summary of their organization researc...