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Assessment runs from realizations of the extended linearization model to optimization for piecewise regular processor arrays. Emphasizes efficiency in discussions of scalable parallel-pipelined and compiled regular architectures. Also covers single chip multiprocessing for consumer electronics. ... Read more

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Multithreaded Processor Design takes the unique approachof designing a multithreaded processor from the ground up. Everyaspect is carefully considered to form a balanced design rather thanmaking incremental changes to an existing design and then ignoringproblem areas.The general purpose parallel computer is anelusive goal. Multithreaded processors have emerged as a promisingsolution to this conundrum by forming some amalgam of the commonplacecontrol-flow (von Neumann) processor model with the more exoticdata-flow approach. This new processor model offers many excitingpossibilities and there is much research to be performed to make thistechnology widespread. Multithreaded processors utilize the simple and efficient sequentialexecution technique of control-flow, and also data-flow likeconcurrency primitives. This supports the conceptually simple butpowerful idea of rescheduling rather than blocking when waiting fordata, e.g. from large and distributed memories, thereby toleratinglong data transmission latencies. This makes multiprocessing far moreefficient because the cost of moving data between distributed memoriesand processors can be hidden by other activity. The same hardwaremechanisms may also be used to synchronize interprocess communicationsto awaiting threads, thereby alleviating operating system overheads.Supporting synchronization and scheduling mechanisms in hardwarenaturally adds complexity. Consequently, existing multithreadedprocessor designs have tended to make incremental changes to existingcontrol-flow processor designs to resolve some problems but notothers. Multithreaded Processor Design serves as an excellent referencesource and is suitable as a text for advanced courses in computerarchitecture dealing with the subject. ... Read more

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Keeping users on the forefront of technology, this timely volume offers a practical reference to all programming and interfacing aspects of the popular Intel family of microprocessors. Organized in an orderly and manageable format that stimulates and challenges understanding, the book contains numerous example programs using the Microsoft Macro Assembler program, and provides a thorough description of each Intel family member, memory systems, and various I/O systems.The volume provides an introduction to the microprocessor and computer and explains addressing modes, data movement instructions, program control instructions, programming the microprocessor and using assembly language with C/C++. It also outlines 8086/8088 hardware specifications, memory interface, basic I/O interface and interrupts, and the latest Pentium microprocessors.For anyone wanting a thorough knowledge of programming and interfacing of the Intel family of microprocessors. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (7)

A Good Book, but it needs a bit editing
It's a really Good Book, very thorough. But it lacks editing for the new revisions. There are quite a few chapters that concerns DOS only, and these days it would be hard to find a person that finds this interesting.
Those chapters could very well be exchanged for information on XP, Win 2003 or even Linux. And now I mentioned Linux: this OS is completely ignored in the text. When the author lists the 32 bit operating systems, he event counts Win95 and Win98, but excludes Linux and Unix!?

So: A very nice read that could have been better.

Out of date
Has a lot of good background, but if you are looking for in-depth information about the Pentium family, you should likely skip this book.The "Pentium and Pentium Pro" chapter starts page 753, "Pentium II, III and 4" starts page 783, and "Appendixes" star page 802, meaning 30 pages and 19 pages respectively on the last two Intel processor families.

Several references in the book state things like "just introduced" or "this year", but were obviously from early editions.

I recognize how hard it is to keep up to date - The current (as of this writing) architecture documents from Intel on IA-32e and AMD for AMD64 are several thousands of pages and free for download.Of course, I never expected 64 bit architecture discussion in this book, butbut I was looking for a narrative that would set the base and context of modern 32 bit implementations.

Very detail oriented, complete and good reference
I have read the first 140 pages of this book, and I really like it. So far, I have the following comments.
Good points:
1.) It covers both real and protected mode from the start. Other books wait until the middle of the books before they cover protected mode.
2.) Assembly language command mechanism are explained in great detail. The author explain exactly what's going on. How the data moved from memory to register, register to register, how the memory in a computer is organized, how exactly PUSH and POP command works etc. There are lots of diagram that illustrate his explanations.
3.) It covers from 8086 to Pentium II hardware architecture. Many books are strictly limited to outdated 8086 and 8088 processors.
4.) The exercises at the end of each chapter increases my understanding of the subject and answers to even numbered problems are available at the end of the book.

Bad Points:
1.)Assembly language and processor architecture are hard subjects. You have to read each chapter several times before you can get a good grasp of the topic.
2.)Some of the topic presented by the authors can not be easily understood until you read the subsequent chapters.

One suggestion for people who read the book: Make sure you know how to convert binary, hexadecimal and decimal number. You have to know these otherwise you can get lost. Some basic understanding of logic gates is also helpfull!

Unhelpful and Scattered
I'm currently studying Electronic Engineering, and this is our recommended text for the introduction to assembly module. I find i can't use the book as it does not lay out any subject clearly. Often parts of the language are used in examples then introduced and explained many pages later. If starting you have to get at least one other book.

This Book is a must for Hardware Freaks
My teacher used this book in our Electronics Engineering course few year back, it was some old edition.Since then I wanted to buy this book, but I couldn't find it in decent price.Few days back I bought it for US ... (lucky me).This book is really great for Assembly Programmers, Hardware Interfacing (with PCI, Local bus, AGP, LPT and USB), etc.It is also great for leaning Interfacing with other devices too, since it clearly describes some interfacing ICs.It is not suited for beginners. ... Read more

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Computer vision falls short of human vision in two respects: execution time and intelligent interpretation. This book addresses the question of execution time. It is based on a workshop on specialized processors for real-time image analysis, held as part of the activities of an ESPRIT Basic Research Action, the Working Group on Vision. The aim of the book is to examine the state of the art in vision-oriented computers. Two approaches are distinguished: multiprocessor systems and fine-grain massively parallel computers. The development of fine-grain machines has become more important over the last decade, but one of the main conclusions of the workshop is that this does not imply the replacement of multiprocessor machines. The book is divided into four parts. Part 1 introduces different architectures for vision: associative and pyramid processors as examples of fine-grain machines and a workstation with bus-oriented network topology as an example of a multiprocessor system. Parts 2 and 3 deal with the design and development of dedicated and specialized architectures. Part 4 is mainly devoted to applications, including road segmentation, mobile robot guidance and navigation, reconstruction and identification of 3D objects, and motion estimation. ... Read more

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As the demand for digital communication networks has increased, so have the challenges in network component design. To meet ever-escalating performance, flexibility, and economy requirements, the networking industry has opted to build products around network processors. These new chips range from task-specific processors, such as classification and encryption engines, to more general-purpose packet or communications processors. Programmable yet application-specific, their designs are tailored to efficiently implement communications applications such as routing, protocol analysis, voice and data convergence, firewalls, VPNs, and QoS.

Network processor design is an emerging field with issues and opportunities both numerous and formidable. To help meet this challenge, the editors of this volume created the first Workshop on Network Processors, a forum for scientists and engineers from academia and industry to discuss their latest research in the architecture, design, programming, and use of these devices. In addition to including the results of the Workshop in this volume, the editors also present specially commissioned material from practicing designers, who discuss their companies' latest network processors. Network Processor Design: Issues and Practices is an essential reference on network processors for graduate students, researchers, and practicing designers.

* Includes contributions from major academic and industrial research labs including Aachen University of Technology; Cisco Systems; Infineon Technologies; Intel Corp.; North Carolina State University; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; University of California, Berkeley; University of Dortmund; University of Washington; and Washington University.
* Examines the latest network processors from Agere Systems, Cisco, IBM, Intel, Motorola, Sierra Inc., and TranSwitch. ... Read more

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Processor networks consisting of a thousand and more processing nodes that interact by sending messages over a communications network are feasible today.They can only meet the market's demand for high-speed, low-cost computing when adequate facilities for the implementation of distributed programs--programs consisting of a collection of processes that communicate and synchronize via the exchange of messages--are offered.This book investigates some of these facilities by viewing both the processor network and the distributed program as a graph. Dr. Hilbers begins by introducing distributed computing with graph theory, and considers processor networks and their price/performance ratios.He goes on to look at obtaining homogeneous distributions of work over networks and considers examples.The author closes by discussing message routing within a processor network. ... Read more

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Weather forecasting and climatology have traditionally been users of the world's fastest supercomputers. The emergence of massively parallel supercomputers as likely successors to current vector supercomputers has resulted in the conversion of weather and climate models to suit parallel supercomputers with thousands of processors. The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts has established itself as the central venue for bringing together operational weather forecasters, climate researchers and parallel computer manufacturers to share their experiences about these efforts every other year. This book presents a cross-section of the results achieved so far in this demanding area of high-performance computing. ... Read more

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Modern electronics is driven by the explosive growth of digitalcommunications and multi-media technology. A basic challenge is todesign first-time-right complex digital systems, that meet stringentconstraints on performance and power dissipation. In order to combine this growing system complexity with anincreasingly short time-to-market, new system design technologies areemerging based on the paradigm of embedded programmable processors.This concept introduces modularity, flexibility and re-use in theelectronic system design process. However, its success will criticallydepend on the availability of efficient and reliable CAD tools todesign, programme and verify the functionality of embedded processors.Recently, new research efforts emerged on the edge between softwarecompilation and hardware synthesis, to develop high-quality codegeneration tools for embedded processors. Code Generation forEmbedded Systems provides a survey of these new developments.Although not limited to these targets, the main emphasis is on codegeneration for modern DSP processors. Important themes covered by thebook include: the scope of general purpose versus application-specificprocessors, machine code quality for embedded applications,retargetability of the code generation process, machine descriptionformalisms, and code generation methodologies.Code Generationfor Embedded Systems is the essential introduction to this fastdeveloping field of research for students, researchers, andpractitioners alike. ... Read more

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A Flexible Firmware Development Enviroment foe Embedded
FlexWare: A retargetable code generator for embedded processors ... Read more

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The i960 embedded processor is the world's bestselling RISC processor. This databook features product specifications for the new i960 Hx series processors which perform at more than 150 million instructions per second (MIPS), operating at speeds up to 75MHz. Also included is the Cobra series processors which feature on-chip cache memory. ... Read more

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Written for the experienced engineer, this data book is focused specifically on designing the 82496 Cache Controller and 82491 Cache SRAM using the Pentium Processor. ... Read more

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Written for computer hardware and software engineers,this book details the internal architecture of the processor,providing insight into how it translates legacy x86 code into RISCinstructions, executes them out-of-order, and then reassembles theresult to match the original program flow.In detailing theprocessor's internal operations, the book reveals why the processorgenerates various transaction types, and how it watches bus trafficgenerated by other entities to ensure cache consistency.The busprotocol is described in detail in a logical, building-block manner. ... Read more

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A fast overview
Suitable as a fast introduction to the Pentium Pro, but limited only to that. Gives an overview of the features that distinguish the chip from the Pentium processors.A decent description of the processor's pipeline.A mishmash of information about pins, bus transactions, system programming, etc.In every catagory, the information is a mishmash and is limited. This book is not a good substitute for the official Intel manuals. ... Read more

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Efficient design of embedded processors plays a critical role in embedded systems design. Processor description languages and their associated specification, exploration and rapid prototyping methodologies are used to find the best possible design for a given set of applications under various design constraints, such as area, power and performance.

This book is the first, comprehensive survey of modern architecture description languages and will be an invaluable reference for embedded system architects, designers, developers, and validation engineers.Readers will see that the use of particular architecture description languages will lead to productivity gains in designing particular (application-specific) types of embedded processors.

* Comprehensive coverage of all modern architecture description languages... use the right ADL to design your processor to fit your application;
* Most up-to-date information available about each architecture description language from the developers...save time chasing down reliable documentation;
* Describes how each architecture desccription language enables key design automation tasks, such as simulation, synthesis and testing...fit the ADL to your design cycle;
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Provides a stable base for software, allowing applications that run on one PowerPC processor to run consistently on any other PowerPC processor. ... Read more

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Excellent Introduction to the PowerPC Architecture
I would usually not have a written a review for this book, but was taken aback by it's very poor rating. It turned out that this was because of one very poor review which I feel did not do justice to the book, and so I felt compelled to add my opinion.

While many (free) manufacturer supplied data books for various PowerPC implementations have become available since this book was published this is the only PowerPC book that still remains on my shelf. I no longer work on this architecture, but I've found it impossible to give my copy of book away (yes, all the data books are long gone). I find this an excellent introduction to the PowerPC family of processors, and if there are facts about the architecture I need to look up I have always found it here. So, if you don't need a shelf full of data books, and are ready to pay for one hardcover that is almost always good enough, go out and get this one. It's not going to tell you about proprietary implementation details about a specific chip, but if you need to look up something about the PowerPC this should be a great reference.

Good material
I read the review from the other reader and I want to give justice to thisbook. If the person who bought this book is disappointed because s/he washoping to get something else instead, it has nothing to do with the qualityof the current material. A lot of not so positive reviews I read here fallin the same "erroneously bought" critic syndrom. Regarding thisbook, this is really excellent if you want to go deeper than simply readingthe manufacturer'suser and programming manuals. I work daily on PowerPCcomputers implementing low level OS routines and this book does a great jobat helping me on using specific instructions. In fact, this material addedto the (free) manufacturer manuals and Gary Kacmarcik's book is all oneneed to work intimately on this wonderful CPU. If you need something at amore generic level, buy J. Hennessey's book.

Save your time and money, folks
This book is NOT a design tool.It's not much of anything, as a matter of fact.It resembles a dumbed-down PowerPC data book, and is marginally easier to read, but it contains much less useful information.The textlacks sufficient detail to be implementation oriented.It focuses far toomuch on programming basics to be considered design oriented.I thinkperhaps it was intended to serve as an introductory manual for people whodon't know how to read data books.

If you're thinking of using this toolin a classroom setting, please don't.There is little or no information init that can't be obtained FREE by downloading the PowerPC "ProgrammingEnvironments" data book and the specific data book for your particularprocessor directly from Motorola. ... Read more

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The most complete architecture reference available on the 80X86 microprocessor family, this reference manual describes the software architecture of the 80X86 processor extension family, including the 1486. Each family is described as a whole, and a detailed description is given for the advanced execution modes - the protected mode and virtual-86 mode. The book is intended to give support to readers as they write assembly language programs, debug programs using complex 80X86 instructions and dis-assemble "core dumps". Because the C language is used as a tool for describing the architecture, the ability to read simple C programs is a prerequisite to using this book. ... Read more