Computers : Computer Architecture

The FireWire (IEEE 1394) standard for high-speed serial bus communications has come to the forefront as an important technology supporting today's emerging data-intensive applications. FireWire System Architecture provides an in-depth description of the IEEE 1394a standard including the cable environment, arbitration enhancements, improvements in the bus timing, new PHY register definition and port interface enhancements to support suspend/resume and port disable. The book also describes the various hardware and software layers that make up the FireWire serial bus and provides transaction examples to explain and illustrate the relationship between each layer. more...

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A comprehensive description of the Pentium microprocessor and its relationship to the remainder of the system. Emphasis is placed on the interaction of the processor's execution units, internal caches, and the external cache and system memory. The different types of Pentium bus transfers are described in detail. more...

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Customizable processors have been described as the next natural step in the evolution of the microprocessor business: a step in the life of a new technology where top performance alone is no longer sufficient to guarantee market success. Other factors become fundamental, such as time to market, convenience, energy efficiency, and ease of customization. This book is the first to explore comprehensively one of the most fundamental trends which emerged in the last decade: to treat processors not as rigid, fixed entities, which designers include “as is” in their products; but rather, to build sound methodologies to tailor-fit processors to the specific needs of such products. This book addresses the goal of maintaining a very large family of processors, with a wide range of features, at a cost comparable to that of maintaining a single processor. more...

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A comprehensive guide to InfiniBand, the new interconnect architecture for data centers. Featuring the successful MindShare style and format, this is a complete guide to InfiniBand architecture, the new SAN (System Area Network) interconnect standard. InfiniBand creates a more efficient way to connect storage subsystems, communications networks and server clusters together, while delivering an I/O infrastructure producing the efficiency, reliability and scalability that growing data centers demand. more...

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Detailed discussion of the Pentium II and Pentium Pro processors, Front Side Bus (FSB) protocol and system implementation from a hardware and software viewpoint. Written for computer hardware and software engineers, this book offers insight into how the Pentium Pro and Pentium II family of processors translates legacy x86 code into RISC instructions, executes them out of order, and then reassembles the result to match the original program flow. In detailing the Pentium Pro and Pentium II processors' internal operations, the book reveals why the processors generate various transaction types and how they monitor bus traffic generated by other entities to ensure cache consistency. more...

Price: $14.95