Computer organization and design fourth edition provides a new focus on the revolutionary change taking place in industry today the switch from uniprocessor to multicore microprocessors this new emphasis on parallelism is supported by updates reflecting the newest technologies with examples highlighting the latest processor designs benchmarking standards languages and tools. Computer organization and design fourth edition has been updated with new exercises and improvements throughout suggested by instructors teaching from the book it covers the revolutionary change. Computer organization and design fourth edition fourth edition the hardware software interface the morgan kaufmann series in computer architecture and design october 2008 october 2008 read more authors david a patterson john l hennessy publisher morgan kaufmann publishers inc 340 pine street sixth floor san francisco ca. Buy computer organization and design fourth edition the hardware software interface the morgan kaufmann series in computer architecture and design by patterson david a hennessy john l 2011 paperback by isbn from amazons book store everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. David a patterson john l hennessy this fourth revised edition of computer organization and design includes a complete set of updated and new exercises along with improvements and changes suggested by instructors and students focusing on the revolutionary change taking place in industry today the switch from uniprocessor to multicore