| Description |
xiv, 367 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The basics -- Superscalar processors -- Front-end: branch prediction, instruction fetching, and register renaming -- Back-end: instruction scheduling, memory access instructions, and clusters -- The cache hierarchy -- Multiprocessors -- Multithreading and (chip) multiprocessing -- Current limitations and future challenges. |
| Subject |
Microprocessors.
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Computer architecture.
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| ISBN |
9780521769921 |
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