Table of Contents

1.1 Introduction
1.2 Seven great ideas in computer architecture
1.3 Below your program
1.4 Under the covers
1.5 Technologies for building processors and memory
1.6 Performance
1.7 The power wall
1.8 The sea change: The switch from uniprocessors to multiprocessors
1.9 Real stuff: Benchmarking the Intel Core i7
1.10 Going Faster: Matrix Multiply in Python
1.11 Fallacies and pitfalls
1.12 Concluding remarks
1.13 Historical perspective and reading
1.14 Self-study
1.15 Exercises

2.1 Introduction
2.2 Operations of the computer hardware
2.3 Operands of the computer hardware
2.4 Signed and unsigned numbers
2.5 Representing instructions in the computer
2.6 Logical operations
2.7 Instructions for making decisions
2.8 Supporting procedures in computer hardware
2.9 Communicating with people
2.10 MIPS addressing for 32-bit immediates and addresses
2.11 Parallelism and instructions: synchronization
2.12 Translating and starting a program
2.13 A C sort example to put it all together
2.14 Arrays versus pointers
2.15 Advanced material: Compiling C and interpreting Java
2.16 Real stuff: ARMv7 (32-bit) instructions
2.17 Real stuff: ARMv8 (64-bit) instructions
2.18 Real stuff: RISC-V instructions
2.19 Real stuff: x86 instructions
2.20 Going faster: Matrix multiply in C
2.21 Fallacies and pitfalls
2.22 Concluding remarks
2.23 Historical perspective and further reading
2.24 Self-study
2.25 Exercises
2.26 MIPS Simulator

3.1 Introduction
3.2 Addition and subtraction
3.3 Multiplication
3.4 Division
3.5 Floating point
3.6 Parallelism and computer arithmetic: Subword parallelism
3.7 Real stuff: Streaming SIMD extensions and advanced vector extensions in x86
3.8 Going faster: Subword parallelism and matrix multiply
3.9 Fallacies and pitfalls
3.10 Concluding remarks
3.11 Historical perspective and further reading
3.12 Self-study
3.13 Exercises

4.1 Introduction
4.2 Logic design conventions
4.3 Building a datapath
4.4 A simple implementation scheme
4.5 A multicycle implementation
4.6 An overview of pipelining
4.7 Pipelined datapath and control
4.8 Data hazards: Forwarding versus stalling
4.9 Control hazards
4.10 Exceptions
4.11 Parallelism via instructions
4.12 Putting it all together: The Intel Core i7 6700 and ARM Cortex-A53. On website: Real stuff: The ARM Cortex-A8 and Intel Core i7 pipelines
4.13 Going faster: Instruction-level parallelism and matrix multiply
4.14 Advanced topic: An intro to digital design using a hardware design language to describe and model a pipeline On webset end with: “and more pipelining illustrations”
4.15 Fallacies and pitfalls
4.16 Concluding remarks
4.17 Historical perspective and further reading
4.18 Self-study
4.19 Exercises

5.1 Introduction
5.2 Memory technologies
5.3 The basics of caches
5.4 Measuring and improving cache performance
5.5 Dependable memory hierarchy
5.6 Virtual machines
5.7 Virtual memory
5.8 A common framework for memory hierarchy
5.9 Using a finite-state machine to control a simple cache
5.10 Parallelism and memory hierarchies: Cache coherence
5.11 Parallelism and memory hierarchy: Redundant arrays of inexpensive disks
5.12 Advanced material: Implementing cache controllers
5.13 Real stuff: The ARM Cortex-A8 and Intel Core i7 memory hierarchies
5.14 Going faster: Cache blocking and matrix multiply
5.15 Fallacies and pitfalls
5.16 Concluding remarks
5.17 Historical perspective and further reading
5.18 Self-study
5.19 Exercises

6.1 Introduction
6.2 The difficulty of creating parallel processing programs
6.3 SISD, MIMD, SIMD, SPMD, and vector
6.4 Hardware multithreading
6.5 Multicore and other shared memory multiprocessors
6.6 Introduction to graphics processing units
6.7 Domain specific architectures
6.8 Clusters, warehouse scale computers, and other message-passing multiprocessors
6.9 Introduction to multiprocessor network topologies
6.10 Communicating to the outside world: Cluster networking
6.11 Multiprocessor benchmarks and performance models
6.12 Real stuff TPUv3 Volta
6.13 Going faster: Multiple processors and matrix multiply
6.14 Fallacies and pitfalls
6.15 Concluding remarks
6.16 Historical perspective and further reading
6.17 Self-study

7.1 Introduction
7.2 Assemblers
7.3 Linkers
7.4 Loading
7.5 Memory usage
7.6 Procedure call convention
7.7 Exceptions and interrupts
7.8 Input and output
7.9 SPIM
7.10 MIPS R2000 assembly language
7.11 Concluding remarks
7.12 Exercises

8.1 Introduction
8.2 Gates, truth tables, and logic equations
8.3 Combinational logic
8.4 Using a hardware description language
8.5 Constructing a basic arithmetic logic unit
8.6 Faster addition: Carry lookahead
8.7 Clocks
8.8 Memory elements: Flip-flops, latches, and registers
8.9 Memory elements: SRAMs and DRAMs
8.10 Finite-state machines
8.11 Timing methodologies
8.12 Field-programmable devices
8.13 Concluding remarks
8.14 Exercises

9.1 Introduction
9.2 GPU system architectures
9.3 Programming GPUs
9.4 Multithreaded multiprocessor architecture
9.5 Parallel memory system
9.6 Floating point arithmetic
9.7 Real stuff: The NVIDIA GeForce 8800
9.8 Real stuff: Mapping applications to GPUs
9.9 Fallacies and pitfalls
9.10 Concluding remarks
9.11 Historical perspective and further reading

10.1 Introduction
10.2 Implementing combinational control units
10.3 Implementing finite-state machine control
10.4 Implementing the next-state function with a sequencer
10.5 Translating a microprogram to hardware
10.6 Concluding remarks
10.7 Exercises

11.1 Introduction
11.2 A Survey of RISC Architectures for Desktop, Server, and Embedded Computers
11.3 The Intel 80×86
11.4 The VAX Architecture
11.5 The IBM 360/370 Architecture for Mainframe Computers
11.6 Historical Perspective and References

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Provides an introduction to the fundamentals of computer organization, emphasizing the relationship between hardware and software at various levels. Topics include assembly language, hardware, pipelining, memory hierarchies, I/O, and parallelism. Design paradigms are grounded through numerous examples with a MIPS processor.

The interactive version embeds 100s of learning questions, converts various figures and examples into dynamic animations (assembly execution, datapath operation, pipeline, etc.), and includes auto-generated auto-graded challenge activities (“homework problems”) throughout the material. As with other zyBooks, a key benefit of such interactivity is that students learn more, and come to lecture more engaged when points are given for completing the interactive activities beforehand. Auto-graded homework also gives students better feedback and frees teaching resources for higher-value interactions.

Authors

David A. Patterson
University of California, Berkeley

John L. Hennessy
Stanford University