This book presents a formal model for evaluating the cost effectiveness of computer architectures. The model can cope with a wide range of architectures, from CPU design to parallel supercomputers. To illustrate the formal procedure of trade-off analyses, several non-pipelined design alternatives for the well-known RISC architecture called DLX are analyzed quantitatively. It is formally proved that the interrupt mechanism proposed for the DLX architecture handles nested interrupts correctly.
In an appendix all programs to compute the cost and cycle time of the designs described are listed in C code. Running these simple C programs on a PC is sufficient to verify the results presented. The book addresses design professionals and students in computer architecture.

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Book Title: The Complexity of Simple Computer Architectures
Editors: Silvia M. Müller, Wolfgang J. Paul
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60580-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1995
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-60580-5Published: 25 October 1995
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-47774-7Published: 01 July 2005
Series ISSN: 0302-9743
Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 273
Topics: Control Structures and Microprogramming, Processor Architectures, System Performance and Evaluation, Arithmetic and Logic Structures, Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation, Logic Design

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