Product Description: This reference to today's state-of-the-art microprocessors covers general principles before detailing each major family of machine, and comparing/contrasting their different performance applications. This updated edition includes a chapter on Pentium and a chapter on PowerPC.

Product Description: A complete designer's guide to microcontrollers - from the 8-bit Motorola 86HC11 to Intel new 32-bit 80960CA - this book includes all aspects of these devices' organization, application, and programming. (Microcontrollers are a kind of microprocessor used in a vast array of applications, from antilock brakes to industrial process control and robotics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) technology is advancing at a rapid pace, even since publication of the author's RISC Architecture in 1987. This work fills the need for a text that presents the state of the art in RISC technology, highlighting the latest and most important design methodologies that RISC technology has made possible...read more