A Practitioner's Guide to Risc Microprocessor Architecture

by Patrick H. Stakem

Here is an up-to-date, single-source book that offers a complete overview of RISC technology—as design philosophy, market force, and technology driver. Through its comprehensive coverage, information technology professionals and advanced students learn the fundamentals of RISC design, as well as the trade-offs, limitations, speed, cost, complexity, and implementations of the various architectures. Built on an overall structure that carefully balances theory and practice, this unique book reviews the basics and background of the technology, and then continues with specific case study examples that compare and contrast different implementations. Approaches RISC as a design philosophy and discusses such architectural topics as superscalar, superpipelining, and very-long-instruction-word (VLIW) techniques For hardware and software engineers, system architects and designers, information technology professionals, managers, and advanced students, A Practitioner's Guide to RISC Microprocessor Architecture offers an indispensable resource for working with this dynamic technology.

400 pages, Hardcover

First published April 25, 1996