The Architecture of Pipelined Computers

Book excerpt: This text is designed to document and unify much of the theory, techniques, and understanding about pipelining, presenting the material so that the reader can recognize and use the techniques in future design. It is more of an engineering than a theoretical text; discussions range from logic design considerations, through the construction, cascading, and control of pipelined structures, to the architecture of complete systems and the development of programming techniques to efficiently use such machines. Examples from real are used whenever possible to amplify the development and presentation of concepts.