CPU Design and Practice

The book provides guidance and practical techniques for the CPU design and its implementation. By scheduling a complete CPU design procedure into a series practicing tasks, the book offers a step-by-step process support to the readers for the design of a CPU which can run Unix-like OS (e.g. Linux) kernel. It also covers various design practices and debug skills. The book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students, lecturers and tutors, as well engineers and practitioners who are interested in the CPU design and implementation.

Wenxiang Wang, Ph.D., senior engineer, is Chief Architect of the processor core at Loongson Technology Co., Ltd., and an adjunct professor at the University of Science and Technology of China. His main research interests include processor architecture design, processor verification, and performance analysis and optimization of computer systems. He has participated in several national ＂Core Electronics Devices, High-End General-Purpose Chips, and Basic Software Products＂ (National Major Science and Technology Project), 863, and 973 projects. He has published more than ten papers in domestic and international journals and conferences, applied for dozens of patents, and been granted more than ten patents. Since 2012, he has served as the leader of the IP group in the Chip R&D Department of Loongson Technology, responsible for the development, research, and maintenance of the Loongson series CPU IP cores, and participated in formulating the LoongArch instruction set architecture specifications. He is the author of CPU Design and Practice, Computer Architecture, Fundamentals of Computer Architecture, and other works.

Jinzhang Xing graduated with a master’s degree from the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2015, he joined Loongson Technology Co., Ltd. He has long been engaged in the research and development of processor core structures and is one of the main structural designers of the Loongson series processor cores. In recent years, he has actively participated in providing technical support and training for the CPU Design Competition (Loongson Cup) of the National Computer System Development Capability Competition.