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.
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.
••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.
Heterogeneous Systems Architecture - a new compute platform infrastructure presents a next-generation hardware platform, and associated software, that allows processors of different types to work efficiently and cooperatively in shared memory from a single source program. HSA also defines a virtual ISA for parallel routines or kernels, which is vendor and ISA independent thus enabling single source programs to execute across any HSA compliant heterogeneous processer from those used in smartphones to supercomputers. The book begins with an overview of the evolution of heterogeneous parallel processing, associated problems, and how they are overcome with HSA. Later chapters provide a deeper perspective on topics such as the runtime, memory model, queuing, context switching, the architected queuing language, simulators, and tool chains. Finally, three real world examples are presented, which provide an early demonstration of how HSA can deliver significantly higher performance thru C++ based applications. Contributing authors are HSA Foundation members who are experts from both academia and industry. Some of these distinguished authors are listed here in alphabetical order: Yeh-Ching Chung, Benedict R. Gaster, Juan Gómez-Luna, Derek Hower, Lee Howes, Shih-Hao HungThomas B. Jablin, David Kaeli,Phil Rogers, Ben Sander, I-Jui (Ray) Sung. Provides clear and concise explanations of key HSA concepts and fundamentals by expert HSA Specification contributors Explains how performance-bound programming algorithms and application types can be significantly optimized by utilizing HSA hardware and software features Presents HSA simply, clearly, and concisely without reading the detailed HSA Specification documents Demonstrates ideal mapping of processing resources from CPUs to many other heterogeneous processors that comply with HSA Specifications
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. "
The set of rules and methods which describe the organization, functionality and implementation of computer systems are known as computer architecture. It is a sub-field of computer engineering. The primary goal of computer architecture is to design a computer which maximizes performance while keeping power consumption in check. It should also keep the costs low compared to the amount of expected performance and should be very reliable. There are three main subcategories within this field. These are instruction set architecture (ISA), microarchitecture and system design. The machine code which a processor reads and acts upon is defined by ISA. Microarchitecture details how a particular processor should implement the ISA. The rest of the hardware components which are in a computing system are included in system design. Computer architecture is an upcoming field of computer engineering that has undergone rapid development over the past few decades. This book is compiled in such a manner, that it will provide in-depth knowledge about the theory and applications of this field. Those in search of information to further their knowledge will be greatly assisted by this book.
