TY - GEN AU - Hennessy, John L AU - Patterson, David A. TI - Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach SN - 9789351073659 U1 - 004.22 HEN PY - 2019/// CY - New Delhi PB - Elsevier KW - Computer architecture KW - Computer arithmetic KW - Electronic digital computers--Design and construction N2 - Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Sixth Edition has been considered essential reading by instructors, students and practitioners of computer design for over 20 years. The sixth edition of this classic textbook from Hennessy and Patterson, winners of the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award recognizing contributions of lasting and major technical importance to the computing field, is fully revised with the latest developments in processor and system architecture. The text now features examples from the RISC-V (RISC Five) instruction set architecture, a modern RISC instruction set developed and designed to be a free and openly adoptable standard. It also includes a new chapter on domain-specific architectures and an updated chapter on warehouse-scale computing that features the first public information on Google's newest WSC ER -