Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Basics
- 3 Superscalar Processors
- 4 Front-End: Branch Prediction, Instruction Fetching, and Register Renaming
- 5 Back-End: Instruction Scheduling, Memory Access Instructions, and Clusters
- 6 The Cache Hierarchy
- 7 Multiprocessors
- 8 Multithreading and (Chip) Multiprocessing
- 9 Current Limitations and Future Challenges
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Basics
- 3 Superscalar Processors
- 4 Front-End: Branch Prediction, Instruction Fetching, and Register Renaming
- 5 Back-End: Instruction Scheduling, Memory Access Instructions, and Clusters
- 6 The Cache Hierarchy
- 7 Multiprocessors
- 8 Multithreading and (Chip) Multiprocessing
- 9 Current Limitations and Future Challenges
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
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- Microprocessor ArchitectureFrom Simple Pipelines to Chip Multiprocessors, pp. 351 - 360Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009