Computer Organization and Design By David A Patterson

Considering the importance of computer system analysis in today\'s modern world, it is essential that there is proper guidance in place. Computer Organisation and Design by David A Patterson and John L. Hennessy is focussed on providing detailed information about the changing world of technology and the latest updates with relation to factors like a switch from uniprocessor to multicore microprocessors. It analyses the advancements that have taken place with this parallelism and also provides some historical perspectives.

Modern computers need some prerequisite knowledge and a certain skill-set to be understood fully. The book says that what you need is sound fundamental know-how of the processors and the workings of a computer. Consisting of a strong mix of information relating to both hardware and software and their interface, Computer Organisation and Design is useful for those who are novices when it comes to computer design or are used to working with either hardware or software only and want to understand the other. Database programmers, software engineers and operating system designers will be able to utilise the information presented in the text to understand the concepts of the subject.

MIPS processor, computer language, arithmetic for computers, microprogramming, recent pentium implementation, pipelining, input output performance measures, the basics and implementation of cache performance and logic design are some of the topics covered under this title. New and promising inventions like the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) have been explained in the text as well.

Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface was published by Morgan Kaufmann Pub in 2010 and is available in paperback.