Book, Computer Architecture a Quantitative Approach 6/19[LS]

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach has been considered essential reading by computer design instructors, students, and practitioners for nearly 30 years.. This 6th edition of this classic is completely revised with the latest developments in processor and system architecture.. And now presents examples of RISC-V instruction set architecture (RISC Five), a modern RISC instruction set developed and designed to be a free and openly adoptable standard. It also includes a new chapter on domain-specific architectures and an updated chapter on warehouse-scale computing that presents the first public information about Google's newest WSC.. True to its original mission of demystifying computer architecture, this edition continues the long tradition of focusing on areas where the most exciting computing innovation is happening, while always maintaining an emphasis on good engineering design.. What's new in this edition: A new chapter explaining how domain-specific architectures are the only path toward improved performance and energy efficiency, given the end of Moore's Law and Dennard scaling; An Introduction to the Four Industry DSAs: Google Tensor Processing Unit, Google Pixel Visual Core, Intel Nervana Neural Network Processor and Microsoft Catapult; Lots of updates to the warehouse-scale computing chapter, with the first insights into Google's latest WSC; Updates to other chapters, including new material on handling stacked DRAM; Performance data on the new NVIDIA Pascal GPU versus Intel's new Skylake AVX-512 CPU; and many additions to the material regarding multicore architecture and organization