Supplementary Material

Books

These books present slightly different views of system architecture concepts, in slightly different forms. You may find concepts explained in a more palatable form in them than in the course textbook or during the lectures. However, they are just supplementary material, you do not need them in order to get a good mark in the course.

• John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson: Computer Architecture, a Quantitative Approach, third edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2003. Call number: N/A (in process of being acquired by the library).

• Carl Hamacher, Zvonko Vranesic, and Safwat Zaky: Computer organization, fifth edition, McGraw-Hill, 2002. Call Number: QA 76.9 .C643 H36 2002.

• John D. Carpinelli: Computer Systems Organization and Architecture, Addison-Wesley, 2001. Call Number: QA 76.9 .C643 C37 2001.

• Andrew S. Tanenbaum: Structured Computer Organization, fourth edition, Prentice Hall, 1999. Call Number: QA 76.6 .T38 1999.

• William Stallings: Computer Organization and Architecture: Designing for Performance, fourth edition, Prentice Hall, 1996. Call Number: QA 76.9 .C643 S73 1996.

These will (soon) be on reserve at the library.

On-Line Material

• BogoMips mini-Howto
• Linux Benchmarking HOWTO

• Survey of RISC Architectures, part of the Web extension to the textbook
• Documentation for MIPS processors architecture
• The MPC7450 RISC Microprocessor Family User's Manual.
• Intel Pentium III and Pentium IV Processors Homepage
• Introduction to AltiVec Technology