"Presents the fundamentals of hardware technologies, assembly language, computer arithmetic, pipelining, memory hierarchies and I/O"--Provided by publisher.
Readers of the first edition of this innovative book will benefit from the increased coverage of pipelining and storage, the comprehensive presentation of caches and new chapters--including shared memory multiprocessing and networking technology--presented in this new edition. The book will benefit anyone involved in building computers.
The computing world is in the middle of a revolution: mobile clients and cloud computing have emerged as the dominant paradigms driving programming and hardware innovation. This book focuses on the shift, exploring the ways in which software and technology in the 'cloud' are accessed by cell phones, tablets, laptops, and more