The new ARM Edition of Computer Organization and Design features a subset of the ARMv8-A
architecture which is used to present the fundamentals of hardware technologies assembly
language computer arithmetic pipelining memory hierarchies and I O. . With the post-PC era
now upon us Computer Organization and Design moves forward to explore this generational change
with examples exercises and material highlighting the emergence of mobile computing and the
Cloud. Updated content featuring tablet computers Cloud infrastructure and the ARM (mobile
computing devices) and x86 (cloud computing) architectures is included. An online companion Web
site provides links to a free version of the ARMv8 Foundation Platform (a virtual platform
incorporating an AArch64 architecture simulation model) as well as additional advanced content
for further study appendices glossary references and recommended reading.
