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    <title>Computer organization and architecture designing for performance</title>
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    <namePart>Stallings, William.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Pearson</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2010</dateIssued>
    <edition>8th ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>792 p: ill.; 24cm</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Overview: Introduction -- Computer evolution and performance -- The Computer system: A Top- level view of computer function and interconnection -- Cache memory -- Internal memory technology -- External memory -- Input/ output -- Operating system support -- The Central processing unit: Computer arithmetic -- Instruction sets: charaterisitcs and functions -- Instructon sets addressing modes and formats -- Processor structure and function -- Reduced instruction set computers (RISCs) -- Instruction- level parallelsim and superscalar processors -- Control unit operation -- Microprogrammed control -- Parallel organization: Parallel processing -- Multicore computers -- Appendix A: Projects for teaching computer organization and architecture -- Assembly language and related topics -- Online chapters: Number systems -- Digital logic -- The IA- 64 Architrecture.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">William Stallings.</note>
  <note>Includes index.</note>
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    <topic>Architecture</topic>
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