An overview of performance enhancement strategies, beyond simple pipelining, is presented and examples of applications requiring higher performance are cited. These are followed by design strategies and example architectures based on vector or array processing, multiprocessing, and multicomputing.
Designed for the first course in Computer Architecture, usually offered at the junior/senior (3rd, 4th year) level in electrical engineering, computer science or computer engineering departments. This text provides a comprehensive introduction to computer architecture, covering topic from design of simple microprocessors to various techniques.
Designed for the first course in Computer Architecture, usually offered at the junior/senior (3rd, 4th year) level in electrical engineering, computer science or computer engineering departments. This text provides a comprehensive introduction to computer architecture, covering topic from design of simple microprocessors to various techniques.







