Case studies. REQUIRED TEXT: None RECOMMENDED TEXT: J. Hennessy and D. Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach , Morgan Kaufmann, 3 rd edition, 2003. Research, survey, and case study ...

Hennessy and David A. Patterson described the present as the “golden age of computer architecture”. Compared to the early days of MS-DOS, when designing user- and kernel-space interactions was ...