Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This is a comprehensive introduction to pipelined and parallel computer architecture, aimed at students taking a further education course in computer architecture. Each chapter provides the most generic hardware aspects, followed by supporting details on corresponding programming languages, data structures and operating systems, but also provides details of representative commercially available systems.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• This book, an antidote to texts offering a cut-and-paste approach to the discipline, is a readable and comprehensive introduction to Pipelined and Parallel processing architectures
• A result of the twenty-year teaching experience of third-time author Sajjan Shiva, its logical progression of chapters, overview of complete systems and emphasis on the fundamentals makes Pipelined and Parallel Computer Architectures the perfect text for students taking a second course in computer architecture
• Each chapter not only provides the most generic hardware aspects--followed by supporting details on corresponding programming languages, data structures, and operating systems--but provides details of representative commercially available systems
• This potent combination of detailed information and practical examples separates this text from research-oriented reference books, and makes it readily accessible to both the teacher and the student
• Learning Aids
• End-of-Chapter Questions
• Extensive List of End-of-Chapter References 0673520935B04062001