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We used "Computer Organization and Design: the Hardware/Software Interface" (also Hennessy and Patterson) as our comp arch textbook. I'd recommend it (any mode
by ethbro 9y ago
We used "Computer Organization and Design: the Hardware/Software Interface" (also Hennessy and Patterson) as our comp arch textbook.
I'd recommend it (any moderately recent version) for simply learning as well.
Learning the internals of everything between memory and functional CPU subunits is fun (and useful).
And the ideas don't change that quickly (e.g. the TLB and ROBs that were attacked here have been around for decades in similar form). There's only so many clever things you can do when a one bit buffer is expensive.
- esaym 9y agoWhich edition? I think we used the 3rd edition in our class 5 or so years ago. It would not be something I'd "recommend" but I haven't looked elsewhere ( just assuming there is something better out there)
- ethbro 9y agoI couldn't say. I do remember at the time searching for a few topics on the net -- and sadly it was one of those "black holes" where there simply isn't equivalent information out there. I imagine there might be some stuff in research papers, but that seems like an even worse learning experience. For example: https://www.google.com/search?q=branch+prediction+scoreboarding https://www.google.com/search?q=branch+prediction+scoreboard...