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 ...

CATALOG DESCRIPTION: Design and evaluation of modern uniprocessor computing systems. Evaluation methodology/metrics and caveats, instruction set design, advanced pipelining, instruction level ...

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 ...

Hennessy and Patterson developed a systematic and ... This also led to their groundbreaking textbook, Computer Architecture: a Quantitative Approach. The textbook, released in 1990, was the ...