Product Description: 80486 System Architecture describes the hardware architecture of PC products using the Intel family of 80486 chips, providing a clear, concise explanation of the 80486 processor's relationship to the rest of the system. The author provides a comprehensive treatment of the processor including: -80486 microarchitecture and its functional units -internal and external caches -hardware interface -SL technology features -instructions new to the 80486 -the register set -486/487SX processors -486DX2 processors -486DX2 write-back enhanced processor -486DX4 processors -implementation-specific issues -main memory subsystem design -OverDrive processors If you design or test hardware or software that involves 486 processors, 80486 System Architecture is an essential, time-saving tool...read more

Product Description: Provides an overview of the technology, a detailed description of the specification, a discussion of AGP Pro, and a practical tutorial for mastering AGP. Focuses on 3-D graphics and video-related applications most served by AGP. Softcover. DLC: Computer graphics. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A crisply written and comprehensive set of guides to the most important PC hardware standards. Each series title explains from a programmer's perspective the architecture, features, and operation of systems built using one particular type of chip or industry-accepted hardware specification...read more

Product Description: A building-block approach to a bedrock PC standard.

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Product Description: With the steppe now unified under his rule, the story continues in book two as Chinggis Khan turns his attention to the world outside. Over the past eight hundred years, history has depicted Chinggis Khan as a bloodthirsty despot who, like his contemporaries, was capable of great cruelty...read more

Product Description: Complete guide to Infiniband architecture, a new interconnect architecture standard designed to significantly boost data transfers between servers, server clusters, and peripherals. Softcover. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The authoritative guide to the ISA specification for internal PC data exchange.

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Product Description: Detailed and comprehensive guide to the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) Bus Specification. Thoroughly updated, reorganized, and expanded to cover the PCI Local Bus Specification version 2.2 and other recent developments. Softcover. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: (Pearson Education, MindShare Inc.) A detailed and comprehensive guide to PCI-X technology and its applications. Shows how to use it, which devices it works with, and the pros and cons of the technology. The CD-ROM comes with a 70-minute PCI-X overview video by the author...read more

Product Description: Pentium(R) Pro and Pentium(R) II System Architecture, Second Edition, details the internal architecture of these two processors, describing their hardware and software characteristics, the bus protocol they use to communicate with the system, and the overall machine architecture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 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 RISC instructions, executes them out-of-order, and then reassembles the result to match the original program flow...read more

Product Description: The design, operation, and technical strategy of the Pentium--both the how and the why.

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Product Description: Anyone writing real-time operating systems, multi-task operating systems, or device drivers for these systems needs to be able to do assembly language protected-mode programming. Protected Mode Software Architecture helps readers understand the problems that single-task and multitasking operating systems must deal with, and then examines each component of both the real and protected mode software architectures of the post-286 Intel processors...read more

Product Description: The Unabridged Pentium 4 offers unparalleled coverage of Intel's IA32 family of processors, from the 386 through the Pentium 4 and Pentium M processors. Unlike other texts, which address solely a hardware or software audience, this book serves as a comprehensive technical reference for both audiences...read more