A funny thing happened on the way to the twenty-first century. Computers became more human. By “human,” I don’t mean “humanoid.” I only mean that the computer has evolved from being a stodgy office tool to a revolutionary home appliance and entertainment system, a device designed to help us manage and enjoy our...

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Nearly all the computers sold today have a multi-core processor, but only a small number of applications are written to take advantage of the extra cores. Most programmers are playing catch-up. A recent consultation with a group of senior programming engineers revealed the top three hurdles in adopting parallelism: the challenges of porting...

I was aware of the existence of this book (published in Dutch) even before Erik du Plessis’ company, Impact, became part of Millward Brown, and have since urged him to update it and get it published in English. The result is essentially a new book that expands on the original to provide new insight.

This book is unlike...

Design flow and circuit techniques of contemporary transceivers for multigigahertz mobile radio-frequency (RF) wireless applications are typically quite analog intensive and utilize process technologies that are incompatible with a digital baseband (DBB) and application processor (AP). Nowadays, the DBB and AP designs constantly migrate to...

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Presenting a comprehensive overview of the design automation algorithms, tools, and methodologies used to design integrated circuits, the Electronic Design Automation for Integrated Circuits Handbook is available in two volumes. The first volume, EDA for IC System Design, Verification, and Testing, thoroughly...

The Instruction Set Architecture, or ISA, is defined as that part of the processor architecture related to programming, including the native data types, instructions, registers, addressing modes, memory architecture, interrupt and exception handling, and external IO. With the exception of some small deviations and differences in...