Computers - Computer Architecture

This textbook explains the fundamentals of electric circuits and uses the transfer function as a tool to analyze circuits, systems, and filters. The author avoids the Fourier transform, since this topic is often not taught in circuits courses. General transfer functions for low pass,...

This book describes automated debugging approaches for the bugs and the faults which appear in different abstraction levels of a hardware system. The authors employ a transaction-based debug approach to systems at the transaction-level, asserting the correct relation of transactions. The automated debug approach...

This text describes modern embedded processing systems using the Field Programmable Gate Array. This new paradigm in embedded design utilizes the Verilog Hardware Descriptive Language behavioral synthesis of controller and datapath constructs and the finite state machine for digital signal processing, communications and control...

High Performance Parallelism Pearls Volume 2 offers another set of examples that demonstrate how to leverage parallelism. Similar to Volume 1, the techniques included here explain how to use processors and coprocessors with the same programming - illustrating the most effective ways to combine...

Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools, known to professors, students, and developers worldwide as the "Dragon Book," is available in a new edition. Every chapter has been completely revised to reflect developments in software engineering, programming languages, and computer architecture that have occurred since 1986,...

Skip the fluff and get straight to the essentials with an indispensable prep handbook for the CompTIA A+ Core 2 exam In CompTIA A+ CertMike: Prepare. Practice. Pass the Test! Get Certified!Core 2 Exam 220-1102, veteran tech experts and educators Mike Chapple and Mark...

Skip the fluff and get straight to the essentials with an indispensable prep handbook for the CompTIA A+ Core 1 exam In CompTIA A+ CertMike: Prepare. Practice. Pass the Test! Get Certified! Core 1 Exam 220-1101, veteran tech experts and educators Mike Chapple and...

A laser-focused and job-ready blueprint for success on the CompTIA Network+ exam and a running start on your first (or next) job in tech CompTIA Network+ CertMike: Prepare. Practice. Pass the Test! Get Certified! Exam N10-008 delivers a no-nonsense, straight-to-business guide to acing the...

This updated textbook covers digital design, fundamentals of computer architecture, and ARM assembly language. The book starts by introducing computer abstraction, basic number systems, character coding, basic knowledge in digital design, and components of a computer. The book goes on to discuss information representation...

Get up to date with the latest recipes for applying agile methodologies and techniques in model-based systems engineering (MBSE) and manage the growing complexity of systems in your organization with ease.Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in PDF format.Key...

This textbook introduces basic and advanced embedded system topics through Arm Cortex M microcontrollers, covering programmable microcontroller usage starting from basic to advanced concepts using the STMicroelectronics Discovery development board. Designed for use in upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses on microcontrollers, microprocessor systems, and...

This textbook teaches students techniques for the design of advanced digital systems using System-on-Chip (SoC) Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). The author demonstrates design of custom hardware components for the FPGA fabric using VHDL, with implementation of custom hardware-software interfaces. Readers gain hands-on experience...

This is the first book to focus on the problem of ensuring the correctness of floating-point hardware designs through mathematical methods. Formal Verification of Floating-Point Hardware Design, Second Edition advances a verification methodology based on a unified theory of register-transfer logic and floating-point arithmetic...

A must-have Kubernetes book to learn key concepts for succeeding in any production environment, be it a greenfield Kubernetes environment or your cloud-native journeyKey Features: Advance in your Kubernetes journey with guidance from a seasoned k8s practitioner and trainer Discover best practices for implementing...

Author: Srinivas KatkooriISBN-10: 3030788431ISBN-13: 9783030788438Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/09/2023Pages: 398Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.28lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.85d

Quickly deliver microservices with CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline using software architecture patterns, microservices, and release pipelines Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookKey Features Learn software architecture and microservices design patterns from an AWS certified professional architect Develop...

Not since the 1980s has computer architecture been so exciting! This book captures the moment, mining the history of computing to teach key concepts in modern hardware design and introduce the neural and quantum architectures of the future. Computer Architecture is an in-depth exploration...

Recent technological developments in sensors, edge computing, connectivity, and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have accelerated the integration of data analysis based on embedded AI capabilities into resource-constrained, energy-efficient hardware devices for processing information at the network edge. Embedded AI combines embedded machine learning (ML)...

Author: Bekkay Hajji, Adel Mellit, Loubna BouselhamISBN-10: 9811906173ISBN-13: 9789811906176Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/23/2023Pages: 328Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.72d

This book serves as a single-source reference to the latest advances in Approximate Computing (AxC), a promising technique for increasing performance or reducing the cost and power consumption of a computing system. The authors discuss the different AxC design and validation techniques, and their...

A software development is a highly labor intensive activity. A large software project may involve hundreds of people, and may span over many years. A project of this dimension can easily turn into chaos if proper management controls are not imposed. To complete the...

Do you want to easily create, deploy and run apps using containers?Do you want to collaborate seamlessly on your app's operating system with a team?This book will show how Docker could be the answer for you!Docker is the perfect tool that was designed specifically...

This book covers the two broad areas of the electronics and electrical aspects of control applications, highlighting the many different types of control systems of relevance to real-life control system design. The control techniques presented are state-of-the-art. In the electronics section, readers will find...

Today, computer-system optimization, at both the hardware and software levels, must consider the details of the memory system in its analysis; failing to do so yields systems that are increasingly inefficient as those systems become more complex. This lecture seeks to introduce the reader...

General-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPU) have emerged as an important class of shared memory parallel processing architectures, with widespread deployment in every computer class from high-end supercomputers to embedded mobile platforms. Relative to more traditional multicore systems of today, GPGPUs have distinctly higher degrees...

This book offers a comprehensive survey of shared-memory synchronization, with an emphasis on "systems-level" issues. It includes sufficient coverage of architectural details to understand correctness and performance on modern multicore machines, and sufficient coverage of higher-level issues to understand how synchronization is embedded in...

Due to the diversity of contexts in which biological computation is performed, a major problem is the selection of functional-oriented techniques for the analysis of biological sequences in a huge environment. The performances of various sequences in biocomputational algorithms are evaluated with variant features...

Solve the complexity of running a business in a multi-cloud environment with practical guidelines backed by industry experience. Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in PDF format.Key Features: Explore the benefits of the major cloud providers to make better...

This book provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to physical inspection-based approaches for electronics security. The authors explain the principles of physical inspection techniques including invasive, non-invasive and semi-invasive approaches and how they can be used for hardware assurance, from IC to PCB level....

This book covers several aspects of the operational amplifier and includes theoretical explanations with simplified expressions and derivations. The book is designed to serve as a textbook for courses offered to undergraduate and postgraduate students enrolled in electronics and communication engineering. The topics included...

In practice, many different people with backgrounds in many different disciplines contribute to the design of an enterprise. Anyone who makes decisions to change the current enterprise to achieve some preferred structure is considered a designer. What is problematic is how to use the...

Get started with Docker on your local machine and progress towards deploying useful applications in production with this simplified, practical guideKey Features Get a working understanding of Docker containers by incorporating them in your development process Complete interesting exercises to learn how to secure...

This textbook teaches students techniques for the design of advanced digital systems using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). The authors focus on communication between FPGAs and peripheral devices (such as EEPROM, analog-to-digital converters, sensors, digital-to-analog converters, displays etc.) and in particular state machines and...

This book describes a comprehensive approach for synthesis and optimization of logic-in-memory computing hardware and architectures using memristive devices, which creates a firm foundation for practical applications. Readers will get familiar with a new generation of computer architectures that potentially can perform faster, as...

You are probably reading this book for two reasons: you are either a programmer or you are seeking to be a better programmer. If these two describe you, then you have chosen the right book.This book will give you all the necessary tips and...

With the continual development of professional industries in today's modernized world, certain technologies have become increasingly applicable. Cyber-physical systems, specifically, are a mechanism that has seen rapid implementation across numerous fields. This is a technology that is constantly evolving, so specialists need a handbook...

B?ent Sari deals with the various fail-operational safety architecture methods developed with consideration of domain ECUs containing multicore processors and describes the model-driven approaches for the development of the safety lifecycle and the automated DFA. The methods presented in this study provide fail-operational system...

Pipelined ADCs have seen phenomenal improvements in performance over the last few years. As such, when designing a pipelined ADC a clear understanding of the design tradeoffs, and state of the art techniques is required to implement today's high performance low power ADCs. Author:...

High-level synthesis - also called behavioral and architectural-level synthesis - is a key design technology to realize systems on chip/package of various kinds, whether single or multi-processors, homogeneousor heterogeneous, for the emb- ded systems market or not. Actually, as technology progresses and systems become...

This book offers readers comprehensive coverage of security policy specification using new policy languages, implementation of security policies in Systems-on-Chip (SoC) designs - current industrial practice, as well as emerging approaches to architecting SoC security policies and security policy verification. The authors focus on...

Introduction.- Reconfigurable Real-Time Memory Controller Architecture.- Memory Patterns.- Cycle-Accurate SDRAM Power Modeling.- Power/Performance Trade-Offs.- Conservative Open-Page Policy.- Reconfiguration.- Related Work.- Conclusions and Future Work.- Appendix A: ILP Problem Formation.- Appendix B: Memory Specifications.- Appendix C: Code Listings.- Appendix D: List of Acronyms.- Appendix E:...

This book equips readers with tools for computer architecture of high performance, low power, and high reliability memory hierarchy in computer systems based on emerging memory technologies, such as STTRAM, PCM, FBDRAM, etc. The techniques described offer advantages of high density, near-zero static power,...

This book discusses the design principles of physically unclonable functions (PUFs) and how these can be employed in hardware-based security applications, in particular, the book provides readers with a comprehensive overview of security threats and existing countermeasures.This book has many features that make it...

The interplay between words, computability, algebra and arithmetic has now proved its relevance and fruitfulness. Indeed, the cross-fertilization between formal logic and finite automata (such as that initiated by J.R. B?hi) or between combinatorics on words and number theory has paved the way to...

Run Ansible playbooks to launch complex multi-tier applications hosted in public clouds Key Features Build your learning curve using Ansible Automate cloud, network, and security infrastructures with ease Gain hands-on exposure on Ansible Book Description Ansible has grown from a small, open source orchestration...

Author: René Enriquez, Alberto SalazarISBN-10: 1788992997ISBN-13: 9781788992992Publisher: Packt PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/31/2018Pages: 372Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.41lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.77d

Get acquainted with GCP and manage robust, highly available, and dynamic solutions to drive business objectiveKey Features: Identify the strengths, weaknesses and ideal use-cases for individual services offered on the Google Cloud Platform Make intelligent choices about which cloud technology works best for your...

Author: Brian AllbeeISBN-10: 1788622014ISBN-13: 9781788622011Publisher: Packt PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2018Pages: 736Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.74lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 1.47d

Author: Ed RobinsonISBN-10: 1788390075ISBN-13: 9781788390071Publisher: Packt PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/29/2018Pages: 270Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.57d

Author: Ryan LemmerISBN-10: 178398872XISBN-13: 9781783988723Publisher: Packt PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/30/2015Pages: 166Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.35d