Practicing computer engineers and graduate students in computer architecture alike will find this reference book invaluable as it describes the tradeoffs and design philosophy that lead to the development of the Alpha architecture and its implementation. Alpha Architecture and Implementation provides a comprehensive description of all major aspects of Alpha systems. The book includes an overview of the history of RISC development in the computer industry and at Digital, the Alpha Architecture, all the major processor chips, and system implementations. The book also covers RISC concept and design styles, and provides an overview of other RICS architectures and descriptions of the new SPARC, MIPS, Power PC and PA-RISC microprocessors introduced in 1995. The book also discusses operating system porting issues, compiler techniques and binary translation. Dileep Bhankdarkar was a senior consulting engineering in the Alpha Systems Business Group at Digital Equipment Corporation. He has been responsible for leading the technical direction and product strategy of Alpha Personal Systems, Alpha and VAX Servers and High Performance Computing. He was the architecture manager for microVAX, chief architect for VAX vector processing and co-architect of the PRISM RISC architecture on which Alpha is based. He has a BTech degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, and an MS and PhD in electrical engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University. Dileep holds 15 US patents and is senior member of IEEE. He is the author of more than 30 technical publication on computer architecture, semiconductor technology and performance analysis. He currently works for Intel Corporation. Only comprehensive treatise on Alpha Architecture, chips and systems. Insider's view of Alpha A comprehensive discussion of Alpha with overviews of competing architectures.

This is the authoritative reference on Digital Equipment Corporation's new 64-bit RISC Alpha architecture. Written by the designers of the internal Digital specifications, this book contains complete descriptions of the common architecture required for all implementations and the interfaces required to support the OSF/1 and OpenVMS operating systems.

This is the authoritative reference on Digital Equipment Corporation's new 64-bit RISC Alpha architecture. Written by the designers of the internal Digital specifications, this book contains complete descriptions of the common architecture required for all implementations and the interfaces required to support the OSF/1 and OpenVMS operating systems.

Alpha Architecture Reference Manual, Third Edition is the authoritative reference on the definition of Alpha architecture. Revised by the Alpha Architecture Committee, this book contains a complete description of the common architecture required of all implementations and describes the interfaces to support the Windows NT, Digital UNIX, and OpenVMS operating systems. The third edition reflects the latest implementations of the architecture, including the 21164A, 21164PC, and 21264. Some of the extensions to the architecture and the enhancement to the technical content include: new byte and word load, store and sign-extend operations; new multimedia instructions; new population enumeration and floating-point square root instructions; new instructions to improve data cache efficiency and updated Windows NT section. The Alpha chip is the fastest chip on the marketplace today. It runs Windows NT, UNIX and OpenVMS operating systems. New base-level server configurations provide four times the memory of current systems. Contains updated Windows NT section to reflect current technical port to Alpha Includes new insights into the software aspects of the implementation Covers new multimedia instructions for increased performance with high-end graphics applications

A comprehensive reference and guide book to the world's #1 64-bit processor, Alpha from Digital Equipment Corporation. The book explains the motivation and rationale for the Alpha architecture, and how to use its instruction set to solve real problems.

Alpha AXP Architecture Reference Manual, Second Edition describes the required behavior of all Alpha implementations, as seen by the machine-language programmer. This book discusses Alpha single-board computers, which have been introduced to cover the high-end embedded controller market. Organized into five parts, this edition begins with an overview of the instruction-set architecture. This text then describes the supporting PALcode routines for three operating systems. Other parts consider a particular console implementation that is specific to platforms that support the OpenVMS AXP or DEC OSF/1 operating systems. This book discusses as well the specific operating system PALcode architecture. The final part provides a discussion of console issues for Windows NT with its PALcode description. This book is a valuable resource for machine-language programmers.