Modern Computer Architecture and Organization: Learn x86, ARM, and RISC-V architectures and the design of smartphones, PCs, and cloud servers

The suitable book for computer architecture and organization

Amazing book, life changing experience

Modern computers have become extremely complex, comprising of so many levels, reaching from low-level physical layers to high-level layers of abstraction in order to program them efficiently. This book offers a bit of everything you need to know in order to understand in which category and which layer each topic belongs, and gives you an idea of what it takes to make everything work. Whereas you will by no means become an expert in computer architecture by using only this book, you will indeed gain a complete overview of the field and understand what it takes to design a computer: from transistors and logic gates to interacting with the operating system and the outside world. This book also offers an interesting glimpse to some very hot topics and modern applications of computers which show towards where computer design is heading. As an expert in computer architecture, I would highly recommend this book to students, computer scientce professionals from other fields and computer science enthusiasts. It will help you realise how all the pieces fall eventually into place!

This book is a great practical guide to modern computer architecture, especially if you are interested in how computers manage, process and communicate information. It is well organised, detailed, and thorough and clarifies lots of complex information. I highly recommended this book if you are a software developer, systems designer, or computer architecture student!

Books of this type are a rare find as it covers the entire spectrum of topics ranging from introduction to computer architecture, starts with gates, builds on logic elements, covers modern architectures like RISC-V and finally explores real world applications (quantum, blockchain, automated vehicles, etc) of domain specific accelerators. The wealth of knowledge provided in this book is excellent and is very timely as the technology evolves. The topics that are discussed are dealt with good level of details, and concepts are strengthened with the examples and exercises. I really enjoyed sections like performance enhancing techniques and the different application domains. It was very easy to read and relatively modular. So that you can jump sections and yet understand. Its also very rare to find people like James who have in-depth experience in the field and are technical working consultants writing such material. People with such experience mostly deal with practical aspects of the topics than the theoretical aspects. This can be noticed very clearly in the book with the emphasis on clear, concise language and easy to understand structure and concepts.

I have also read and reviewed the first edition and found it to be a great read, and like the first this is very digestible and easy to follow. Though you would need to understand technology a bit, I find Jim Ledin's ability to break down complex material to make it much more comprehensible is suburb. This book covers everything from the first edition as well as much more like things such as DDR5 SDRAM, RISC-V variants like SoC and IoT now using AI and ML, iPhone13, NVIDIA GF RTX, Ryzen 9, Cloud Applications, Cybersecurity, Cryptocurrencies, Self-driving cars, Quantum computing and more. This book is wonderful for anyone looking to get into the computer architecture or software architecture industries. It is also valuable for anyone still in school or still seeking out what focus they should start working towards within the computer science or any related technology centered classes. That to me is one of the greatest achievements of a book like this, is that it gives someone such a broad range of knowledge about so many different technologies that one can easily determine what interests them and what does not. Technology is fascinating, and this book does a great job at bringing the reader down to a pretty low level of how it all operates but does not bring you down so low level that you are trying to understand hard to follow proofs or things like this, it is all very easy to read and I highly recommend to anyone into technology.

Liked - everything. Didn't Like - anything significant. As a long retired microprocessor systems engineer from the 70's I chose this book as some holiday reading hoping to further update and consolidate my understanding of modern processor architecture. I picked up the book and began browsing through it like any other technical book from the back! I found the book immediately engaging and easy to explore with hundreds of topics scanned in 2 hours and now being read in order of interest like a magazine. A very meaty magazine, amost encyclopedic given the breadth of topics covered and at a depth suitable for conceptual understandng. A side benefit was for me to get a much better handle on the ever expanding glossary of terms, standards, product series etc which can unecessarily detract from a readers understandng or even the desire to understand. Each topic includes a handful of current or classic technology examples or standards. The author's choice in these was for me enjoyable and relevant. Of course it would be impossible to cover everyone's favourite areas to the depth desired or even at all. If there is a further edition of this wonderful book I would like to see acknowledgement and processor examples from the Motorola 6809 and 68000 processors that introduced the possibility of key processor functionality like: Unified addressing modes allowing a RISC like instruction set, position indepependent code and segmentation the the use of relative addressing, easy to write HLL compilers through stack relative passing of pointers and variables, easy systems programs such as RTOS with dual stack pointers etc. Finally I note the mention of micro-ops being used to make increasingly complex and sophisticated predictive pipelines. Perhaps a section on micro-programmed vs hard wired instruction sets would be good in the historical lead up to the current super processors. All in all a very enjoyable read awaits the reader. Thanks Jim!

Arquitectura por computadora

El libro explica los terminos de forma clara, entendible y describe desde los fundamentos la arquitecturas actuales.

Le livre est passionnant. Il est très didactique et explique très bien les notions les unes après les autres.