BookAuthors: Dumas, Joseph D. (-)
Joseph Dumas focuses on the basics of design and performance enhancement that have proven effective. This textbook demonstrates how current trends in architecture and implementation apply and expand upon these principles.Introduction to computer architecture -- Computer memory systems -- Basics of the central processing unit -- Enhancing CPU performance -- Exceptions, interrupts, and input/output systems -- Parallel and high-performance systems -- Special-purpose and future architectures. 
