Book on Processor Architecture

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Can somebody suggest a good book on Processor Architecture (x86, IA-64) ?

Thanks
Abhijit

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You can download the reference manuals from Intel

Jamey

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See http://developer.intel.com

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x86 architecture by Jim Turley.
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A good book about computer architecture is ?Computer Architecture: A
Quantitative Approach?[1] by Hennessy, Patterson and Goldberg. It describes
most topics of interest for computer architectures and includes case studies
about various processors.

Hth,
--andy

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First I would assume the OP is looking to correlate processor
architecture(s) with systems programming, specifically windows driver
programming…

Assuming that, IF POSSIBLE, look at the book

“Computer Systems - A programmers perspective” by Randal E Bryant and David
O’Hallaron. Lots of exercise using x86 but using “as” and not very
difficult to convert to masm…

This is a text of CMU undergrads, fundamentally sound and clear :-).

-pro
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A good book about computer architecture is “Computer Architecture: A
Quantitative Approach”[1] by Hennessy, Patterson and Goldberg. It describes
most topics of interest for computer architectures and includes case studies
about various processors.

Hth,
–andy

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Hello,

Prokash Sinha wrote:

> Assuming that, IF POSSIBLE, look at the book
>
> “Computer Systems - A programmers perspective” by Randal E Bryant and David
> O’Hallaron. Lots of exercise using x86 but using “as” and not very
> difficult to convert to masm…
>
> This is a text of CMU undergrads, fundamentally sound and clear :-).

I can second that this book is a good starting point. This book is
really very easy to read. Anyway, it’s “just” a good starting point as
many things are oversimplified. A collegue has partially used that book
for making a university course.

Regards,
Spiro.

–
Spiro R. Trikaliotis
http://www.trikaliotis.net/

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For what it’s worth, Hennessey & Patterson was (long ago) the text book for CMU’s computer architecture program. I still have my battered copy at home somewhere.

If you’re concerend about the X86 instruction set then it’s not the right book. If you’re curious about what a set-associative cache is, or how a TLB works, or what’s good & bad about them, HP is a terrific book.

-p

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First I would assume the OP is looking to correlate processor
architecture(s) with systems programming, specifically
windows driver programming…

Assuming that, IF POSSIBLE, look at the book

“Computer Systems - A programmers perspective” by Randal E
Bryant and David O’Hallaron. Lots of exercise using x86 but
using “as” and not very difficult to convert to masm…

This is a text of CMU undergrads, fundamentally sound and clear :-).

-pro
----- Original Message -----
From: “Andreas H?ber”
> To: “Windows System Software Devs Interest List”
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 5:06 AM
> Subject: RE: [ntdev] Book on Processor Architecture
>
>
> A good book about computer architecture is “Computer
> Architecture: A Quantitative Approach”[1] by Hennessy,
> Patterson and Goldberg. It describes most topics of interest
> for computer architectures and includes case studies about
> various processors.
>
> Hth,
> --andy
>
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> Subject: [ntdev] Book on Processor Architecture
>
> Can somebody suggest a good book on Processor Architecture
> (x86, IA-64) ?
>
> Thanks
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