Download or read book AGP System Architecture written by Dave Dzatko and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2000 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) interface is a platform bus specification that enables high-performance graphics capabilities, 3-D, and video-over networks as well as on individual PCs. This book provides an overview of the technology, a detailed description of the specification, a discussion of AGP Pro, and a tutorial for mastering AGP.
Download or read book PCI Express System Architecture written by Ravi Budruk and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2004 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ••PCI EXPRESS is considered to be the most general purpose bus so it should appeal to a wide audience in this arena.•Today's buses are becoming more specialized to meet the needs of the particular system applications, building the need for this book.•Mindshare and their only competitor in this space, Solari, team up in this new book.
Download or read book AGP System Architecture written by Dave Dzatko and published by Addison Wesley Longman. This book was released on 1999 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "AGP System Architecture" provides a detailed description of the AGP interface, a new platform bus specification enabling high-performance graphics capabilities and three-dimensional graphics on PCs.
Download or read book PCI System Architecture written by Don Anderson and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 1999 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn all you need to know to engineer reliable, high-performance PCI products with text written in practical and comprehensive prose. The bestselling PCI book for computer engineers now fully updated for PCI Revision 2.2.
Download or read book HyperTransport System Architecture written by Don Anderson and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2003 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important book with no competition based on a successful course from Mindshare.
Download or read book PCI X System Architecture written by Tom Shanley and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2001 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PCI-X is the successor to the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) Bus Specification, the current standard that enables communication between peripheral devices and the computer processor. A major improvement over the older PCI technology, PCI-X enables significantly higher performance with transfer rates of up to 1.06 GB per second. " PCI-X System Architecture " is a detailed and comprehensive guide to the PCI-X technology. It highlights the many changes and improvements from PCI 2.2 to PCI-X, so that you can build on your PCI knowledge to master PCI-X with greater ease. The book discusses the drawbacks of PCI and how PCI-X solves these problems, achieving faster transfer rates. In addition, it presents in-depth information and practical guidance on the PCI-X transaction protocol, device configuration for PCI-X, load tuning, PCI-X bridges, error detection and handling, and electrical issues. You will find specific information on such key topics as: Device types and bus initialization, including Hot-Plug PCI-X initialization Dword and burst commands Bus arbitration, latency rules, and burst transactions Transaction termination Split completion messages 64-bit transactions Bridge and non-bridge configuration registers Load tuning, including adjustable fields and registers, split completion buffers, and adjusting timeslice values PCI-X to PCI-X bridges Handling master abort, attribute phase parity errors, and split read errors Anyone who designs or tests hardware or software that involves the PCI-X bus will find "PCI-X System Architecture" an essential resource for understanding and working with this important technology. "
Download or read book Pentium Pro and Pentium II System Architecture written by T. Shanley and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 1998 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With nearly 50,000 copies sold since its 1997 release, "Pentium Pro Processor System Architecture" is now updated in a second edition to include the Pentium II processor and MMX technology. The Pentium II processor adds MMX technology, which consists of 57 new instructions designed to enrich and accelerate multimedia and communications.
Download or read book USB System Architecture written by Don Anderson and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 1997 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This series of books is truly an important part of my library.... They are consistently accurate.... I would recommend them to anyone doing hardware design or support, as well as to any developers who write low-level system code." Paul Tomlinson "Windows Developer's Journal" "Universal Serial Bus System Architecture "provides an in-depth discussion of USB and is based on the 1.0 version of the Universal Serial Bus specification. It focuses on the USB protocol, signaling environment, and electrical specifications, along with the hardware/software interaction required to configure and access USB devices. Although this book does not focus on writing USB device drivers, it does contain useful background information that aids in understanding the USB software environment. Key topics include: differential signaling environment device configuration suspend/resume operations device descriptors device requests (commands) transfer mechanisms USB transaction protocols bus-powered devices self-powered devices host controller designs (UHC and OHC) error detection and handling device class definitions If you design or test hardware or software that involves USB, "Universal Serial Bus System Architecture "is an essential, time-saving tool. The "PC System Architecture Series" is a crisply written and comprehensive set of guides to the most important PC hardware standards. Each title is designed to illustrate the relationship between the software and hardware and explains thoroughly the architecture, features, and operations of systems built using one particular type of chip or hardware specification. MindShare Inc.is one of the leading technical training companies in the computer industry, providing innovative courses for dozens of companies, including Intel, IBM, and Compaq. Don Anderson passes on his wealth of experience in digital electronics and computer design by training engineers, programmers, and technicians for MindShare. 0201461374B04062001
Download or read book PCMCIA System Architecture written by Don Anderson and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 1995 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easily learn the internals of the PC plug-in standard.
Download or read book ISA System Architecture written by Tom Shanley and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 1995 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intro to microprocessor communications - Introduction to the bus cycle - Addressing I/0 and memory - The address decode logic - The 80286 microprocessor - The reset logic - The power-up sequence - The 80286 system kernel : the engine - Detailed view of the 80286 bus cycle - The 80386 DX and SX microprocessors - The 80386 system kernel - Detailed view of the 80386 bus cycles - RAM memory : theory of operation - Cache memory concepts - ROM memory - ISA bus structure - Types of ISA bus cycles - The interrupt subsystem - Direct memory access (DMA) - ISA bus masters - RTC and configuration RAM - Keyboard/mouse interface - Numeric coprocessor - ISA timers.
Download or read book Plug and Play System Architecture written by Tom Shanley and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 1995 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn Microsoft's major new PC hardware standard.
Download or read book Pentium Processor System Architecture written by Don Anderson and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 1995 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The design, operation, and technical strategy of the Pentium--both the how and the why.
Download or read book Protected Mode Software Architecture written by Tom Shanley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1996 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone writing real-time operating systems, multi-task operating systems, or device drivers for these systems needs to be able to do assembly language protected-mode programming. Protected Mode Software Architecture helps readers understand the problems that single-task and multitasking operating systems must deal with, and then examines each component of both the real and protected mode software architectures of the post-286 Intel processors.
Download or read book InfiniBand Network Architecture written by Tom Shanley and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring the successful MindShare style and format, this is a complete guide to Infiniband architecture, a new interconnect architecture standard designed to significantly boost data transfers between servers, server clusters, and peripherals. The book is based on MindShare's successful Infinband courses.
Download or read book Fundamentals of Computer Organization and Architecture written by Mostafa Abd-El-Barr and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-02-22 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in the two-volume set offering comprehensive coverage of the field of computer organization and architecture. This book provides complete coverage of the subjects pertaining to introductory courses in computer organization and architecture, including: * Instruction set architecture and design * Assembly language programming * Computer arithmetic * Processing unit design * Memory system design * Input-output design and organization * Pipelining design techniques * Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISCs) The authors, who share over 15 years of undergraduate and graduate level instruction in computer architecture, provide real world applications, examples of machines, case studies and practical experiences in each chapter.
Download or read book Fundamentals of Computer Organization and Design written by Sivarama P. Dandamudi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-05-31 with total page 1065 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new advanced textbook/reference providing a comprehensive survey of hardware and software architectural principles and methods of computer systems organization and design. The book is suitable for a first course in computer organization. The style is similar to that of the author's book on assembly language in that it strongly supports self-study by students. This organization facilitates compressed presentation of material. Emphasis is also placed on related concepts to practical designs/chips. Topics: material presentation suitable for self- study; concepts related to practical designs and implementations; extensive examples and figures; details provided on several digital logic simulation packages; free MASM download instructions provided; and end-of-chapter exercises.
Download or read book Modern Processor Design written by John Paul Shen and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conceptual and precise, Modern Processor Design brings together numerous microarchitectural techniques in a clear, understandable framework that is easily accessible to both graduate and undergraduate students. Complex practices are distilled into foundational principles to reveal the authors insights and hands-on experience in the effective design of contemporary high-performance micro-processors for mobile, desktop, and server markets. Key theoretical and foundational principles are presented in a systematic way to ensure comprehension of important implementation issues. The text presents fundamental concepts and foundational techniques such as processor design, pipelined processors, memory and I/O systems, and especially superscalar organization and implementations. Two case studies and an extensive survey of actual commercial superscalar processors reveal real-world developments in processor design and performance. A thorough overview of advanced instruction flow techniques, including developments in advanced branch predictors, is incorporated. Each chapter concludes with homework problems that will institute the groundwork for emerging techniques in the field and an introduction to multiprocessor systems.
