Computer Architecture

“The book is highly interesting to computer scientists … . It is very well written, although compact and for the specialist, or for a reader with a deep interest in the details of a RISC machine. … So this book can be recommended as the text for advanced, graduate-level hardware classes since after have worked through it the reader will be best prepared for starting a job in the hardware industry right away.” (Gottfried Vossen, zbMATH 0966.68023, 2022)

• 1 Introduction.- 2 Basics.- 3 A Sequential DLX Design.- 4 Basic Pipelining.- 5 Interrupt Handling.- 6 Memory System Design.- 7 IEEE Floating Point Standard and Theory of Rounding.- 8 Floating Point Algorithms and Data Paths.- 9 Pipelined DLX Machine with Floating Point Core.- A DLX Instruction Set Architecture.- A.1 DLX Fixed-Point Core: FXU.- A.1.1 Instruction Formats.- A.1.2 Instruction Set Coding.- A.2 Floating-Point Extension.- A.2.1 FPU Register Set.- A.2.2 FPU Instruction Set.- B Specification of the FDLX Design.- B.1 RTL Instructions of the FDLX.- B.1.l Stage IF.- B.1.2 Stage ID.- B.1.3 Stage EX.- B.1.4 Stage M.- B.1.5 Stage WB.- B.2 Control Automata of the FDLX Design.- B.2.1 Automaton Controlling Stage ID.- B.2.2 Precomputed Control.