The "M·CORE" family of microprocessors is the latest 32-bit integrated circuit from Motorola designed to be a multi-purpose "micro-controller." The processor architecture has been designed for high performance and cost-sensitive embedded control applications with particular emphasis on reduced power consumption....

Modern consumers carry many electronic devices, like a mobile phone, digital camera, GPS, PDA and an MP3 player. The functionality of each of these devices has gone through an important evolution over recent years, with a steep increase in both the number of features as in the quality of the services that they provide. However, providing the...

Back in the days when I had a lot more energy and a lot less sense, I wrote
the first edition of this book. I had just finished writing Microwave Mixers,
and friends kept asking me, “Well, are you going to write another one?”
Sales of Mixers were brisk, and the feedback from readers was
encouraging,...

Data management has evolved over the years from being strictly associated with database systems, through active databases, to being a topic that has grown beyond the scope of a single field encompassing multiple aspects: distributed systems, event-driven systems, and peer-to-peer and streaming systems. The present collection of works,...

Good system administrators know about problems long before anyone asks,...