Computer Organization, Design, and Architecture, Fourth Edition (Revised)

With 40% updated material and four new chapters, this edition presents the operating principles, capabilities, and limitations of digital computers to enable development of complex yet efficient systems. It contains additional material that covers the ACM/IEEE computer science and engineering curricula; more coverage on computer organization, embedded systems, and performance evaluation; expanded discussions of RISC, CISC, VLIW, and parallel/pipelined architectures; the latest information on integrated circuit technologies and devices, memory hierarchy, and storage; and updated examples, references, and problems.