Modern computer architectures designed with high-performance microprocessors offer tremendous potential gains in performance over previous designs. Yet their very complexity makes it increasingly difficult to produce efficient code and to realize their full potential. This landmark text from two leaders in the field focuses on the pivotal role...
Chip multiprocessors — also called multi-core microprocessors or CMPs for short — are now the only way to build high-performance microprocessors, for a variety of reasons. Large uniprocessors are no longer scaling in performance, because it is only possible to extract a limited amount of parallelism from a typical instruction stream...
Computer architecture is at a turning point. Radical changes occurred in the 1980s when the Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) philosophy, spurred in good part by academic research, permeated the industry as a reaction to the Complex Instruction Set Computer (CISC) complexities. Today, three decades later, we have reached a point where...
Since the advent of microprocessors in the 70s, a good many books have been written covering different aspects of microprocessors and microcomputers. A knowledge and exposure to microprocessors is a must for practising engineers and scientists in the fields of Electrical, Electronics, Instrumentation and Software Engineering.
Increased levels of chip integration combined with physical limitations of heat
removal devices, cooling mechanisms and battery capacity, have established
energy-efficiency as an important design objective in the implementation flow of
modern electronic products. To meet these low energy objectives, new low
power techniques, including...
This book presents and discusses research in the study of computer science. Topics
discussed include fuzzy logic in molecular computing; mobile database computing; learning
methods for spam filtering; heterogeneous systems; nested relational database systems;
advanced array processing techniques and systems and swarm intelligence....
This volume is unique: the first comprehensive exposition of the exciting new field of Reconfigurable Computing with FPGAs. By mapping algorithms directly into programmable logic, FPGA accelerators offer and deliver 10X-100X performance increases over microprocessors for a large range of application domains. Reconfigurable computing is found in...
Nobody spends more time with Apple s computers and software than the writers and editors at Macworld, the world s foremost Mac authority. Now Macworld s team of experts take you inside Apple s latest update to the popular Mac OS X operating system: Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6. Snow Leopard is an OS X update unlike any in recent memory one...
IntelЮ Integrated Performance Primitives (IntelЮ IPP) is a software library for application developers that increases performance from Intel's latest microprocessors while providing time-to-market advantages and reducing the cost of development. Intel IPP provides access to advanced processor features without having to...
This text is intended for microprocessor courses at the undergraduate level in technology and engineering. ll is a comprehensive treatment of the microprocessor. covering both hardware and software based on the Z80 microprocessor family. The text assumes a course in digital logic as a prerequisite; however, it does not assume a background in...
The hybrid/heterogeneous nature of future microprocessors and large high-performance computing systems will result in a reliance on two major types of components: multicore/manycore central processing units and special purpose hardware/massively parallel accelerators. While these technologies have numerous benefits, they also pose substantial...
Simulation has made possible systems that would otherwise be impracticable. The sophisticated controls in modern aircraft and automobiles, the powerful microprocessors in desktop computers, and space-faring robots are possible because simulations reduce substantially the need for expensive prototypes. These complicated systems are designed...
