This best-selling title, considered to be essential reading for every serious student and practitioner of computer design for over a decade, has been updated throughout to address the most important trends facing computer designers today. In this edition, the authors bring their trademark method of quantitative analysis not only to high-performance desktop machine design, but also to the design of embedded and server systems. They have illustrated their principles with designs from all three of these domains, including examples from consumer electronics, multimedia and Web technologies, and high-performance computing.
Hennessy and Patterson continue to focus on fundamental techniques for designing real machines and for maximizing their cost-performance. Anyone involved in designing computers or designing with computers, from PDAs to Web servers to supercomputers, will benefit from the expertise they offer in this new edition.