Itanium Architecture for Programmers: Understanding 64-Bit Processors and EPIC Principles by James S. Evans and Gregory L. Trimper The practical guide to computer architecture—using the Itanium design by Hewlett-Packard and Intel

Itanium Architecture for Programmers can help students and professionals to master the fundamentals of computer architecture and assembly-language programming using one of the world's most advanced and high-performance architectures: the 64-bit Itanium processors. This book introduces assemblers, debuggers, instruction formats, addressing, branch instructions, logical operations, explicit predication, the register stack engine, and many other features of a very new computer architecture. The book delivers real-world guidance for solving practical programming problems along with extensive sample code. Coverage includes:

• Working with character, integer, and floating-point data in a load/store architecture
• Subroutines, procedures, and functions
• Predication of instructions
• Text I/0 integrating C functions for HP-UX and Linux with assembly language
• Understanding internal parallelism of the Itanium design
• Writing subprograms and linking higher-level language modules with assembly modules

Learn how processor architecture impacts performance, including the roles of instruction size, addressing mode, instruction power, program size, in-line functions, recursion, pipelining, compilers, and post-compilation optimization. The book includes extensive references to Itanium resources for Linux and HP-UX. It will be an invaluable resource for engineers, programmers, and students alike.

The authors maintain a supplementary web site http://www.viika.com/itanium/.

This book was been published in 2003 by Prentice Hall PTR in the HP Professional Books series, ISBN 0-13-101372-6.