Wiley-Blackwell Surviving the Design of Microprocessor and Multimicroprocessor Systems: Lessons Learned (Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing)

In order to achieve the computing power and speed necessary for their given applications, today′s computers utilize numerous microprocessors working in conjunction with central processing units (CPU) on a single integrated circuit (IC) chip. This book presents expert, state–of–the–art discussion of advanced computer architecture, covering in detail such issues as caching, instruction–level parallelism, system bottlenecks, multithreading, multiprocessing, and distributed shared memory systems.