March 2018
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For more information on the current RISC-versus-CISC debate, see Blem et al. (2013).
There have been several attempts at modifying Flynn’s taxonomy. Hwang (1987), Bell (1989), Karp (1987), and Hockney and Jesshope (1988) have all extended this taxonomy to varying degrees.
There are many good textbooks on advanced architectures, including Hennessy and Patterson (2006), Hwang (1993), and Stone (1993). Stone has very detailed explanations of pipelining and memory organization, in addition to vector machines and parallel processing. For a detailed explanation of superscalar execution in a modern RISC processor, see Grohoski (1990). For a thorough discussion of RISC principles with a good explanation of instruction pipelines, see ...