Computer Organization & Design Fifth Edition is the latest update to the classic introduction to computer organization The text now contains new examples & material highlighting the emergence of mobile computing & the cloud It explores this generational change with updated content featuring tablet computers cloud infrastructure & the ARM (mobile computing devices) & x 86 (cloud computing) architectures The book uses a MIPS processor core to present the fundamentals of hardware technologies assembly language computer arithmetic pipelining memory hierarchies & IOBecause an understanding of modern hardware is essential to achieving good performance & energy efficiency this edition adds a new concrete example Going Faster used throughout the text to demonstrate extremely effective optimization techniques There is also a new discussion of the Eight Great Ideas of computer architecture Parallelism is examined in depth with examples & content highlighting parallel hardware & software topics The book features the Intel Core i 7 ARM Cortex-A8 & NVIDIA Fermi GPU as real-world examples along with a full set of updated & enhanced exercises This new edition is an ideal resource for professional digital system designers programmers application developers & system software developers It will also be of interest to undergraduate students in Computer Science Computer Engineering & Electrical Engineering courses in Computer Organization Computer Design ranging from Sophomore required courses to Senior Electives