Hardware correctness is becoming ever more important in the design of computer systems. The authors introduce a powerful new approach to the design and analysis of modern computer architectures, based on mathematically well-founded formal methods which allows for rigorous correctness proofs, accurate hardware costs determination, and performance evaluation. This book develops, at the gate level, the complete design of a pipelined RISC processor with a fully IEEE-compliant floating-point unit. In contrast to other design approaches, the design presented here is modular, clean and complete.

Dieses Lehrbuch beschaftigt sich in mathematisch praziser Weise mit einem ganz und gar praktischen Thema, namlich dem Entwurf digitaler Hardware. Neben einer Diskussion der mathematischen Grundbegriffe werden die notwendigen theoretischen Grundlagen behandelt. Schliesslich wird dann das vollstandige Design eines einfachen Rechners entwickelt.