David Money Harris
Författare till Digital Design and Computer Architecture
Om författaren
Verk av David Money Harris
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Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Harris, David Money
- Andra namn
- Harris, D. M.
- Kön
- male
- Utbildning
- Stanford University (Ph.D.)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.Eng. | SB) - Yrken
- Professor of Engineering, Harvey Mudd College
Medlemmar
Recensioner
Statistik
- Verk
- 6
- Medlemmar
- 132
- Popularitet
- #153,555
- Betyg
- 4.1
- Recensioner
- 1
- ISBN
- 23
- Språk
- 1
The book is carefully written and good to understand. It has an appealing layout, by which I mainly mean that meaningful figures are provided where they make sense educationally. It contains many exercises which are appropriate for the material covered.
On the downside, I find the description of "Memory" not as throughout as I had hoped. For example, a throughout schematic of DRAM is never provided and only cursory explanations are given. Until chapter 8 it is assumed that memory can be accessed in one clock cycle, and it is not worked out how a CPU implements logic to wait for memory.
In chapter 8, section 8.1 then tackles "Caches", but unfortunately not in the context of the overall CPU microarchitecture. The same holds for Section 8.2 which deals with virtual memory; here I miss a connection to the OS. Section 8.3 examines IO-devices in a very superficial and fast-paced way, from which I could not learn much. All in all, I found chapter 8 the weakest.… (mer)