Computer architecture and logic design

During the last three decades, reconfigurable logic has been growing steadily and can now be found in many different fields.

Tackle the Challenges of Parallel Programming in the Visual Effects IndustryIn Multithreading for Visual Effects, developers from DreamWorks Animation, Pixar, Side Effects, Intel, and AMD share their successes and failures in the messy real-world application area of production software.

The Future of Numerical ComputingWritten by one of the foremost experts in high-performance computing and the inventor of Gustafson's Law, The End of Error: Unum Computing explains a new approach to computer arithmetic: the universal number (unum).

Computer Systems Architecture provides IT professionals and students with the necessary understanding of computer hardware.

The main aim of this book is to introduce the concept of photonic information processing technologies to the graduate and post-graduate students, researchers, engineers and scientists.

Error-correcting codes are ubiquitous.

The MATLAB programming environment is often perceived as a platform suitable for prototyping and modeling but not for "e;serious"e; applications.

Although multicore is now a mainstream architecture, there are few textbooks that cover parallel multicore architectures.

Designed for a one-semester course, Introduction to Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing presents fundamental concepts of numerical mathematics and explains how to implement and program numerical methods.

This book is for business professionals interested in learning techniques for managing change in technology driven companies.

The first Stanford MIPS project started as a special graduate course in 1981.

With the advent of portable and autonomous computing systems, power con- sumption has emerged as a focal point in many research projects, commercial systems and DoD platforms.

Efficient parallel solutions have been found to many problems.

Automatic transformation of a sequential program into a parallel form is a subject that presents a great intellectual challenge and promises a great practical award.

High Performance Scientific And Engineering Computing: Hardware/Software Support contains selected chapters on hardware/software support for high performance scientific and engineering computing from prestigious workshops in the fields such as PACT-SHPSEC, IPDPS-PDSECA and ICPP-HPSECA.

Multimedia data streams will form a major part of the new generation of applications in high-speed networks.

Fault-Tolerant Parallel Computation presents recent advances in algorithmic ways of introducing fault-tolerance in multiprocessors under the constraint of preserving efficiency.

Concurrency in Dependable Computing focuses on concurrency related issues in the area of dependable computing.

Kickstart systems programming with C# 12 and .

The advent of very large scale integrated circuit technology has enabled the construction of very complex and large interconnection networks.

Effective compilers allow for a more efficient execution of application programs for a given computer architecture, while well-conceived architectural features can support more effective compiler optimization techniques.

Nonlinear Assignment Problems (NAPs) are natural extensions of the classic Linear Assignment Problem, and despite the efforts of many researchers over the past three decades, they still remain some of the hardest combinatorial optimization problems to solve exactly.

This book is intended to serve as a textbook for a second course in the im- plementation (Le.

Optical media are now widely used in the telecommunication networks, and the evolution of optical and optoelectronic technologies tends to show that their wide range of techniques could be successfully introduced in shorter-distance interconnection systems.

In Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), within a given time frame a particular user is allowed to transmit within a given time slot.

Digital image business applications are expanding rapidly, driven by recent advances in the technology and breakthroughs in the price and performance of hardware and firmware.

Image and Video Compression Standards: Algorithms and Architectures presents an introduction to the algorithms and architectures that underpin the image and video compression standards, including JPEG (compression of still images), H.

Database Concurrency Control: Methods, Performance and Analysis is a review of developments in concurrency control methods for centralized database systems, with a quick digression into distributed databases and multicomputers, the emphasis being on performance.

Kickstart systems programming with C# 12 and .

The term "e;peer-to-peer"e; has come to be applied to networks that expect end users to contribute their own files, computing time, or other resources to some shared project.

Computer Arithmetic in Practice: Exercises and Programming is a simple, brief introductory volume for undergraduate and graduate students at university courses interested in understanding the foundation of computers.

For linear optimization models that can be formulated as linear programs with the block-angular structure, i.

This book is on dependence concepts and general methods for dependence testing.

In contemporary research, the supercomputer now ranks, along with radio telescopes, particle accelerators and the other apparatus of "e;big science"e;, as an expensive resource, which is nevertheless essential for state of the art research.

Interactive architecture is already a reality and an emerging phenomenon that will soon be part of our everyday environments.

Recently the world celebrated the 60th anniversary of the invention of the first transistor.

An In-Depth, Practical Guide to GPGPU Programming Using Direct3D 11GPGPU Programming for Games and Science demonstrates how to achieve the following requirements to tackle practical problems in computer science and software engineering:RobustnessAccuracySpeedQuality source code that is easily maintained, reusable, and readableThe book primarily add

Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are extensively used in industry to perform automation tasks, with manufacturers offering a variety of PLCs that differ in functions, program memories, and the number of inputs/outputs (I/O).

PhoneGap is a standards-based, open-source development framework that can be deployed to any mobile device without losing the features of the native app-allowing for access to device contacts, the local file system, camera, and media on multiple platforms without requiring users to write a single line of code.

Designed for a one-semester course, Introduction to Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing presents fundamental concepts of numerical mathematics and explains how to implement and program numerical methods.

Many of today's complex scientific applications now require a vast amount of computational power.

Contemporary High Performance Computing: From Petascale toward Exascale focuses on the ecosystems surrounding the world's leading centers for high performance computing (HPC).

The predominant language used in embedded microprocessors, assembly language lets you write programs that are typically faster and more compact than programs written in a high-level language and provide greater control over the program applications.

GPU Pro4: Advanced Rendering Techniques presents ready-to-use ideas and procedures that can help solve many of your day-to-day graphics programming challenges.

Focusing on the line of high-performance microcontrollers offered by Microchip, Microcontrollers: High-Performance Systems and Programming discusses the practical factors that make the high-performance PIC series a better choice than their mid-range predecessors for most systems.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

Distributed Systems: An Algorithmic Approach, Second Edition provides a balanced and straightforward treatment of the underlying theory and practical applications of distributed computing.