mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson) (12/19/89)
In article <960020@hpcllla.HP.COM> daryl@hpcllla.HP.COM (Daryl Odnert) writes: >There was sufficient interest in the Hennessy and Patterson book that >I've decided to post the information here: > > ... > > Table Of Contents (from the Preliminary Edition) > > ... >Daryl Odnert Another good feature of the book is Appendix A: Computer Arithmetic which is 72 pages long. It discusses FP representation, rounding, precision, exceptions (!!), and hardware design and design tradeoffs. Three addition hardware schemes are discussed, 5 multiplier hw designs, and 2 divider designs are mentioned. Plus, the final edition discusses the implementation specifics of three real world, sold for money, floating-point integrated circuits. It shows comparison photos and block diagrams of TI 8847, Weitek 3364, and R3010, along with a discussion of their design tradeoffs, similarities, and differences. DISCLAIMER: I'm the one who, upon request, mailed the R3010 die photo to the authors. But I don't get any royalties or revenue if you buy their book :-(. -- -- Mark Johnson MIPS Computer Systems, 930 E. Arques, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 (408) 991-0208 mark@mips.com {or ...!decwrl!mips!mark}
mark@kimball.PARC.xerox.com (Mark Weiser) (12/21/89)
In article <33847@mips.mips.COM> mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson) writes: >> Another good feature of the book is Appendix A: Computer Arithmetic Let me also point out that this part of the book has a separate author: David Goldberg, of the Computer Science Lab at Xerox PARC, an all around fun guy (office down the hall). -mark -- Spoken: Mark Weiser ARPA: mark@mimsy.umd.edu Phone: +1-301-454-7817 After May 15, 1987: weiser@parcvax.xerox.com