Readings for Instruction Set Architectures, Microcodes

The readings for this lecture are H&P5 Chapter 1 (H&P4 Chapter 1), and H&P5 Appendix A (H&P4 Appendix B).

Book abbreviations:

• H&P5 = Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (5th Edition), 2011

• H&P4 = Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (4th Edition), 2007

• S&L = Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors (1st Edition), 2005, reissued 2013.