FURTHER READING
Instruction sets, addressing, and instruction formats are covered in detail in almost every computer architecture book. The books by Patterson and Hennessy (2009), Stallings (2013), and Tanenbaum (2013) all provide excellent coverage in these areas. Many books, such as Brey (2003), Messmer (2001), Abel (2001), and Jones (2001) are devoted to the Intel x86 architecture. For those interested in the Motorola 68000 series, we suggest Wray, Greenfield, and Bannatyne (1999) or Miller (1992).
Sohi (1990) gives a very nice discussion of instruction-level pipelining. Kaeli and Emma (1991) provide an interesting overview of how branching affects pipeline performance. For a nice history of pipelining, see Rau and Fisher (1993). To get a ...
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