Computers - Computer Architecture

In this book, the interrupt handling models used by several operating systems are introduced and compared. We begin with an analysis of the classical interrupt management model used by Unix, followed by the schemes used by modern networked environments. We highlight the key challenges...

Provides a comprehensive vulnerability analysis across the integrated circuits design flow Introduces security metrics to measure quantitatively the vulnerability of a circuit to hardware Trojan insertion Describes design techniques to prevent hardware Trojan insertion and to facilitate hardware Trojan detection Presents testing techniques for...

This book introduces readers to a variety of tools for analog layout design automation. After discussing the placement and routing problem in electronic design automation (EDA), the authors overview a variety of automatic layout generation tools, as well as the most recent advances in...

This book describes techniques to verify the authenticity of integrated circuits (ICs). It focuses on hardware Trojan detection and prevention and counterfeit detection and prevention. The authors discuss a variety of detection schemes and design methodologies for improving Trojan detection techniques, as well as...

This Open Access book introduces readers to many new techniques for enhancing and optimizing reliability in embedded systems, which have emerged particularly within the last five years. This book introduces the most prominent reliability concerns from today's points of view and roughly recapitulates the...

Biometric identity verification (BIV) offers a radical alternative to passports, PIN numbers, ID cards and driving licences. It uses physiological or behavioural characteristics such as fingerprints, hand geometry, and retinas to check a person's identity. It is therefore much less open to fraudulent use,...

This book analyzes energy and reliability as major challenges faced by designers of computing frameworks in the nanometer technology regime. The authors describe the existing solutions to address these challenges and then reveal a new reconfigurable computing platform, which leverages high-density nanoscale memory for...

This book introduces Open Core Protocol (OCP) not as a conventional hardware communications protocol but as a meta-protocol: a means for describing and capturing the communications requirements of an IP core, and mapping them to a specific set of signals with known semantics. Readers...

This book gives a comprehensive introduction to the design challenges of MPSoC platforms, focusing on early design space exploration. It defines an iterative methodology to increase the abstraction level so that evaluation of design decisions can be performed earlier in the design process. These...

Fast, Efficient and Predictable Memory Accesses presents techniques for designing fast, energy-efficient and timing predictable memory systems. By using a careful combination of compiler optimizations and architectural improvements, we can achieve more than what would be feasible at one of the levels in isolation....

The organization of data is clearly of great importance in the design of high performance algorithms and architectures. Although there are several landmark papers on this subject, no comprehensive treatment has appeared. This monograph is intended to fill that gap. We introduce a model...

It has been widely recognized that artificial intelligence computations offer large potential for distributed and parallel processing. Unfortunately, not much is known about designing parallel AI algorithms and efficient, easy-to-use parallel computer architectures for AI applications. The field of parallel computation and computers for...

Automatic Performance Prediction of Parallel Programs presents a unified approach to the problem of automatically estimating the performance of parallel computer programs. The author focuses primarily on distributed memory multiprocessor systems, although large portions of the analysis can be applied to shared memory architectures...

Language, Compilers and Run-time Systems for Scalable Computers contains 20 articles based on presentations given at the third workshop of the same title, and 13 extended abstracts from the poster session. Starting with new developments in classical problems of parallel compiler design, such as...

Cooperating Heterogeneous Systems provides an in-depth introduction to the issues and techniques surrounding the integration and control of diverse and independent software components. Organizations increasingly rely upon diverse computer systems to perform a variety of knowledge-based tasks. This presents technical issues of interoperability and...

This volume contains a selection of papers that focus on the state-of- the-art in formal specification and verification of real-time computing systems. Preliminary versions of these papers were presented at a workshop on the foundations of real-time computing sponsored by the Office of Naval...

Cache And Interconnect Architectures In Multiprocessors Eilat, Israel May 25-261989 Michel Dubois UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Shreekant S. Thakkar SequentComputerSystems The aim of the workshop was to bring together researchers working on cache coherence protocols for shared-memory multiprocessors with various interconnect architectures. Shared-memory multiprocessors have become viable...

Media processing applications, such as three-dimensional graphics, video compression, and image processing, currently demand 10-100 billion operations per second of sustained computation. Fortunately, hundreds of arithmetic units can easily fit on a modestly sized 1cm2 chip in modern VLSI. The challenge is to provide...

Iris and Periocular Recognition using Deep Learning systematically explains the fundamental and most advanced techniques for ocular imprint-based human identification, with many applications in sectors such as healthcare, online education, e-business, metaverse, and entertainment. This is the first-ever book devoted to iris recognition that...

1. Introduction.- The History of Microprocessors.- Advanced Microprocessors.- Terminology.- Von Neumann Architecture vis-a-vis Harvard Architecture.- Parallel versus Multiprocessor.- Multiprogramming.- Topology.- Orthogonality.- Granularity.- Summary.- Notes.- 2. Advanced Computer Concepts.- General Comments.- Data and Data Types.- Boolean.- Integer.- Ordinal.- Real Operands.- Literal.- Pixels.- Arrays and Records.-...

Grid Computing: International Symposium on Grid Computing (ISGC) 2007 is one of the most important annual events in Asia that brings together scientific contributions by world class researchers and scientists working in the Grid Computing field to exchange ideas, to present challenges, solutions and...

The aim of CoreGRID is to strengthen and advance scientific and technological excellence in the area of Grid and Peer-to-Peer technologies in order to overcome the current fragmentation and duplication of effort in this area. To achieve this objective, the workshop brought together a...

Spring Boot Microservices is the ultimate handbook for mastering the intricacies of microservices design, implementation, and deployment through the lens of the Spring Boot framework. This guide is tailored to equip readers with practical insights and real-world applications, ensuring they possess the skills to...

Master strategies for crafting high-performance Java systems with Spring 6.0 and making the right architectural decisions to ensure scalability and robustnessKey Features: - Confidently make strategic architectural choices that align business needs with technical excellence- Design and evolve a real-world system using the right...

It has been recognised recently that the strange features of the quantum world could be used for new information transmission or processing functions such as quantum cryptography or, more ambitiously, quantum computing. These fascinating perspectives renewed the interest in fundamental quantum properties and lead...

In the world of information technology, it is no longer the computer in the classical sense where the majority of IT applications is executed; computing is everywhere. More than 20 billion processors have already been fabricated and the majority of them can be assumed...

Are you fascinated by the mysteries of quantum mechanics? Do you want to understand the technology that promises to revolutionize industries? Are you eager to explore the cutting-edge advancements in computing? If you answered yes, keep reading.Dive into a world where quantum bits (qubits)...

Take a realistic look at microservices and distributed systems with the .NET stack to understand the limitations of microservices development through a practical lensKey Features: - Work through common scenarios encountered when developing distributed microservices applications- Understand cost considerations, traffic limits, and time limits...

Author: Richard J. ReeseISBN-10: 1436305055ISBN-13: 9781436305051Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2008Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d

Enables readers to understand VHDL in the context of FPGA programming with a focus on the Vivado Design Suite Fundamentals of VHDL for FPGA Programming Using Vivado is a comprehensive guide designed to introduce readers to VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL) and its application...

Unchained Vision explores the future of startups in the Web 3.0 era through the lens of Unison.gg. This groundbreaking guide unpacks decentralized product and financial management, blending real-world strategies, governance innovation, and token economies to empower founders, creators, and investors navigating the next evolution...

A no-nonsense, practical guide to current and future processor and computer architectures that enables you to design computer systems and develop better software applications across a variety of domainsKey Features: Understand digital circuitry through the study of transistors, logic gates, and sequential logic Learn...

This book provides a structured and comprehensive pathway through the complexities of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools and processes. It focuses on OpenLane and Caravel EDA tools, due to their current major role in the open-source IC design ecosystem. OpenLane provides a robust and...

An integral element of software engineering is model engineering. They both endeavor to minimize cost, time, and risks with quality software. As such, model engineering is a highly useful field that demands in-depth research on the most current approaches and techniques. Only by understanding...

"This book provides research highlighting the possibilities inherent in blockchain for different sectors of the economy and the added value blockchain can provide for the future of these different sectors"--Author: Idongesit WilliamsISBN-10: 1799836339ISBN-13: 9781799836339Publisher: Engineering Science ReferenceLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/24/2020Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 11.00h x...

Though traditionally information systems have been centralized, these systems are now distributed over the web. This requires a re-investigation into the way information systems are modeled and designed. Because of this new function, critical problems, including security, never-fail systems, and quality of service have...

As technology continues to advance in today's global market, practitioners are targeting systems with significant levels of applicability and variance. Instrumentation is a multidisciplinary subject that provides a wide range of usage in several professional fields, specifically engineering. Instrumentation plays a key role in...

In today's modernized environment, a growing number of software companies are changing their traditional engineering approaches in response to the rapid development of computing technologies. As these businesses adopt modern software engineering practices, they face various challenges including the integration of current methodologies and...

In recent years, we have ushered in a new age where applications will become smaller, distributed, JavaScript-laden, microservices-infused, and utilize the hardware of the client to operate. A new paradigm has been forced upon us by the large search providers, and because of this,...

As network science and technology continues to gain popularity, it becomes imperative to develop procedures to examine emergent network domains, as well as classical networks, to help ensure their overall optimization. Centrality Metrics for Complex Network Analysis: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a pivotal...

Cyber-physical systems play a crucial role in connecting aspects of online life to physical life. By studying emerging trends in these systems, programming techniques can be optimized and strengthened to create a higher level of effectiveness. Solutions for Cyber-Physical Systems Ubiquity is a critical...

Written by internationally renowned experts, this book introduces emerging parallel architectures, their corresponding programming paradigms, and their bioinformatics applications. Providing two introductory chapters to supply necessary background on sequential bioinformatics algorithms and parallel architectures-such as multi-cores, Cell B.E., GPUs, FPGAs-it then presents parallelization strategies...

Author: Michael J. NurneyISBN-10: 1836887507ISBN-13: 9781836887508Publisher: Michael NurneyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/10/2025Pages: 358Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.74dLarge Print

James Adams' journey to becoming a CTO was anything but straightforward. He bypassed the typical university path, diving into the world of programming with a Sinclair ZX81 and an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. From coding with COBOL as a teenager to leading technology teams...

This must-read text/reference provides a practical guide to processes involved in the development and application of dynamic simulation models, covering a wide range of issues relating to testing, verification and validation. Illustrative example problems in continuous system simulation are presented throughout the book, supported...

Not only does almost everyone in the civilized world use a personal computer, smartphone, and/or tablet on a daily basis to communicate with others and access information, but virtually every other modern appliance, vehicle, or other device has one or more computers embedded inside...

Microprocessors and Microcomputer-Based System Design, Second Edition discusses the basics of microprocessors, various 32-bit microprocessors, the 8085 microprocessor, the fundamentals of peripheral interfacing, and Intel and Motorola microprocessors. This edition includes topics such as floating-point arithmetic, Program Array Logic, and flash memories. It covers...

Multimedia data streams will form a major part of the new generation of applications in high-speed networks. Continuous media streams, however, require transmission with guaranteed performance. In addition, many multimedia applications will require peer-to-multipeer communication. Guaranteed performance can only be provided with resource reservation...

During a meeting in Toronto last winter, Mike Jenkins, Bob Bernecky and I were discussing how the two existing theories on arrays influenced or were in- fluenced by programming languages and systems. More's Army Theory was the basis for NIAL and APL2 and Mullin's...

Fundamentals of Fog Computing and the Internet of Things for Smart Healthcare explores the intersection of two transformative technologies, fog computing and the IoT, shedding light on how they are revolutionizing healthcare. The book serves as an essential guide for researchers and graduate students,...