The traditional H&P (COaD) is a safe bet for any first or second course in computer architecture. I haven't spent more than a few minutes with CA but I can tell you that neither book is going to ...

The design is performed using industry strength design tools and VHDL is used as the design specification language. The design is evaluated using benchmark programs for correctness and performance.

The course covers the important aspects of the design, organization, and performance evaluation of modern computer systems. Topics include computer performance measures, instruction set architecture ...

Fundamentals of computer systems programming, machine organization, and performance tuning. This course provides a solid background in systems programming and a deep understanding of low-level machine ...