Computers - Computer Architecture

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

The blockchain revolution has drastically impacted global economics and the strategic practices within different industries. Cryptocurrency specifically has forever changed the face of business and the implementation of business online. While innovative, people are still in the early stages of building and developing blockchain...

What exactly is a cloud-native platform? It's certainly a hot topic in IT, as enterprises today assess this option for developing and delivering software quickly and repeatedly. This O'Reilly report explains the capabilities of cloud-native platforms and examines the fundamental changes enterprises need to...

Easy introduction for hobbyists and students wanting to work with both programming and hardware interfacesCovers multiple approaches and solutions from beginner to intermediateAuthor has co-authored titles with Eben Upton, Founder of the Pi Foundation Author: Ralph RobertsISBN-10: 1484227271ISBN-13: 9781484227275Publisher: ApressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/26/2017Pages: 222Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Author: Richard J. ReeseISBN-10: 1436305063ISBN-13: 9781436305068Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2008Pages: 200Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Communications via satellite introduces a number of new technical problems for mobile networks and applications. Satellite links have fundamentally different properties from terrestrial wired or wireless networks. Some of the properties include larger latency, bursty error characteristics, asymmetric capability, and unconventional network architecture. These...

This book focuses on the core question of the necessary architectural support provided by hardware to efficiently run virtual machines, and of the corresponding design of the hypervisors that run them. Virtualization is still possible when the instruction set architecture lacks such support, but...

In the last few years, power dissipation has become an important design constraint, on par with performance, in the design of new computer systems. Whereas in the past, the primary job of the computer architect was to translate improvements in operating frequency and transistor...

Performance evaluation is at the foundation of computer architecture research and development. Contemporary microprocessors are so complex that architects cannot design systems based on intuition and simple models only. Adequate performance evaluation methods are absolutely crucial to steer the research and development process in...

Quantum computers can (in theory) solve certain problems far faster than a classical computer running any known classical algorithm. While existing technologies for building quantum computers are in their infancy, it is not too early to consider their scalability and reliability in the context...

Since the 1970's, microprocessor-based digital platforms have been riding Moore's law, allowing for doubling of density for the same area roughly every two years. However, whereas microprocessor fabrication has focused on increasing instruction execution rate, memory fabrication technologies have focused primarily on an increase...

The emerging three-dimensional (3D) chip architectures, with their intrinsic capability of reducing the wire length, promise attractive solutions to reduce the delay of interconnects in future microprocessors. 3D memory stacking enables much higher memory bandwidth for future chip-multiprocessor design, mitigating the "memory wall" problem....

Most emerging applications in imaging and machine learning must perform immense amounts of computation while holding to strict limits on energy and power. To meet these goals, architects are building increasingly specialized compute engines tailored for these specific tasks. The resulting computer systems are...

With growing interest in computer security and the protection of the code and data which execute on commodity computers, the amount of hardware security features in today's processors has increased significantly over the recent years. No longer of just academic interest, security features inside...

This book seeks to introduce the reader to the DevOps pattern, evolving to DevSecOps. It will then be taught and exemplified how to build a DevSecOps pipeline using the Jenkins tool for continuous delivery (CI/CD)." We'll also use SonarQube, learn about unit testing, functional...

The sixth generation of wireless communication (6G), succeeding 5G cellular technology, opens up several possibilities in terms of technology and its offered services. 6G is expected to allow usage of available higher frequency spectrums to cater to increased capacity, throughput, and low latency (...

Engineering Senior Design is perhaps the course that most resembles what an engineering professional will be required to do during their career; it is the bridge between the academic classroom and the engineering profession. This textbook will support students as they learn to apply...

Manage VMware workloads in Azure VMware Solution and enable hybrid connectivity between on-premises datacenters and Azure with this extensive guide focusing on best practices and use casesKey Features: Extend or migrate your existing VMware environment to Azure VMware Solution smoothly Discover best practices that...

Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture focuses on the function and design of the various components necessary to process information digitally. This title presents computing systems as a series of layers, taking a bottom-up approach by starting with low-level hardware and progressing to higher-level...

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...

Cyber Physical System (CPS) is an integration of computation, networking, and physical processes: the combination of several systems ofdifferent nature whose main purpose is tocontrol a physical process and, through feedback, adapt itself to new conditions, in real time.Cyber Physical System: Concepts and Applications...