The Microarchitecture of Pipelined and Superscalar Computers

1. Front Matter

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2. Fundamentals of Pipelining

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3. Timing and Control of Pipelines

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4. High-Performance Memory Systems

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5. Control Flow: Branching and Control Hazards

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6. Data Flow: Detecting and Resolving Data Hazards

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7. Vector Pipelines

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8. Interrupts and Branch Mispredictions

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9. Back Matter

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This book is intended to serve as a textbook for a second course in the im­ plementation (Le. microarchitecture) of computer architectures. The subject matter covered is the collection of techniques that are used to achieve the highest performance in single-processor machines; these techniques center the exploitation of low-level parallelism (temporal and spatial) in the processing of machine instructions. The target audience consists students in the final year of an undergraduate program or in the first year of a postgraduate program in computer science, computer engineering, or electrical engineering; professional computer designers will also also find the book useful as an introduction to the topics covered. Typically, the author has used the material presented here as the basis of a full-semester undergraduate course or a half-semester post­ graduate course, with the other half of the latter devoted to multiple-processor machines. The background assumed of the reader is a good first course in computer architecture and implementation - to the level in, say, Computer Organization and Design, by D. Patterson and H. Hennessy - and familiarity with digital-logic design. The book consists of eight chapters: The first chapter is an introduction to all of the main ideas that the following chapters cover in detail: the topics covered are the main forms of pipelining used in high-performance uniprocessors, a taxonomy of the space of pipelined processors, and performance issues. It is also intended that this chapter should be readable as a brief "stand-alone" survey.

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• Department of Computer Science, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

  Amos R. Omondi

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