Product Description
The classic textbook for computer systems analysis and design, Computer Organization and Design, has been thoroughly updated to provide a new focus on the revolutionary change taking place in industry today: the switch from uniprocessor to multicore microprocessors. This new emphasis on parallelism is supported by updates reflecting the newest technologies with examples highlighting the latest processor designs, benchmarking standards, languages and tools. As with p… More >>
Computer Organization and Design, Fourth Edition, Fourth Edition: The Hardware/Software Interface
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#1 by Anonymous on April 18, 2010 - 8:03 pm
How in the world can you understand this book.
This is too technical and extremely hard to follow.
The exercise in the chapter doesn’t even relate to
the content in the chapter.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by Anonymous on April 18, 2010 - 9:19 pm
I think it’s a terrible book. Especially for beginners, I use this book at University in combination with the MIPSIM (a mips-architecture simulator) which is even worse. It’s just much too complicated and I think i’ll never (have to) use this information in a later job.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by Anonymous on April 18, 2010 - 11:22 pm
This book was written with engineers in mind -not those who don’t understand a PC to begin with. This book made me question my sanity with wanting to go forth with my career choice. There has to be a better book out there that is written down to earth so the mere mortal can understand…
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by Joseph A. Skarulis on April 19, 2010 - 1:48 am
goes beyond simple digital logic and into more boring technical details like the true calculation of CPU cycle run time – hated the class and my professor almost failed me – make sure you take the right professor with the college course – very time consuming and not fun at all
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Steven Luke Zinnen on April 19, 2010 - 2:38 am
It’s the required textbook for my CA class, and I haven’t looked at it yet.
Rating: 3 / 5