Explains the software including SPEC CPU2000 suite for processors, SPEC Web99 for web servers, and EEMBC for embedded systems. This book features the developments of the Intel IA-32 architecture as well as the Power PC 604, the AMD Opteron Memory, and the Intrinsity FastMATH processor. It compares MIPs assembler code to both C and Java.

Intel and other semiconductor firms are abandoning the single fast processor model in favor of multi-core microprocessors. This title focuses on this historic shift, providing coverage of multiprocessors and exploring the effective ways of achieving parallelism as the key to unlocking the power of multiple processor architectures.

Includes maps to the objectives for the CompTIA 2003 A+ exams and bears the CompTIA Authorized Quality Curriculum (CAQC) seal of approval, as well as the Center for Systems Security and Information Assurance (CSSIA) seal of approval.

Having sold more than 2 million copies over its lifetime, How Computers Work is the definitive illustrated guide to the world of PCs and technology. In this new edition, you'll find detailed information not just about every last component of hardware found inside your PC, but also in-depth explanations about home networking, the Internet, PC security, and even how cell phone networks operate. ...

This text offers information, including how-to advice for specific components, ample reference material, and a comprehensive case study on building a PC. It is intended for anyone who buys, builds, upgrades, or repairs PCs in a corporate, small business, or home setting.

Offers advice for PC users on maintaining, upgrading, and troubleshooting. This book gives instruction on a wide range of entertainment upgrades - ways to enhance your enjoyment of music, photo, movies, and more. Its coverage includes: preventing hardware disasters; upgrading memory; replacing power supplies; and, solving data backup challenges.

Presenting 2006 CompTIA A+ exam objectives, this guide is designed to teach A+ IT technician skills. It covers CompTIA A+ exams 220-602, 220-603, and 220-604. It offers helpful tips, end-of-chapter practice questions, and hundreds of photographs and illustrations. It includes a CD-ROM that features hundreds of mock exam questions.

'Designing Embedded Hardware' steers a course between those books dedicated to writing code for particular microprocessors, and those that stress the philosophy of embedded system design without providing any practical information. With real examples, the book also provides a roadmap to the pitfalls and traps to avoid.

Maybe you've hacked computers and gadgets, and now you're ready to take it to your car. If hacking is new and you would like to mix cars and computers, this book gets you started with its introduction to the basics of car electrical systems.

Paperback Edition What do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? In CODE, they show us the ingenious ways we manipulate language and invent new means of communicating with each other. And through CODE, we see how this ingenuity and our very human compulsion to communicate have driven the technological innovations of the past two centuries. Using ...

An array of inventive customized electronics projects for the geek who looks at a gadget and wonders how it might be upgraded. Beginning with the basics for those without a background in electronics, it covers the tools of the hardware hacking trade and basic soldering techniques.

Provides tricks to keep friends and family entertained and mystified. This volume includes projects, ideas, tips, and tricks for doing everything from growing giant vegetables to finding lost screws.

Contains a series of projects that teach you what you need to know to get your creations talking to each other, connecting to the web, and forming networks of smart devices. The projects in this book are powerful but inexpensive to build. With a couple of microcontroller kits and the networking gadgets, you can make things that talk to each other.

Volume 9 of the Makers bible, Make:.

Radio frequency identification belongs to the masses, and it lets you control all sorts of things. This book shows you how, with instructions, illustrations, photos, and a list of the tools and technology you need for every project. It also supplies the lowdown on read/write tags and for the implantable chips.

Teaches readers how to systematically design efficient, portable moderately complex digital circuits using the VHDL hardware description language and synthesis software. This book also places the focus on the module level design, which is composed of functional units, routing circuit and storage.

Combining the requirements of the A+ certification examination with real-world examples, this text show how to install and troubleshoot hardware, as well as how to tackle problems associated with operating systems. There are also sample questions included, taken from the actual examination.

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Describes all hardware and software operational aspects of Infini Band networking. This book details important concepts relating to the design and implementation of data networks using this emerging standard. It provides an overview of the Infini Band specification, and detailed descriptions of the architecture's operational characteristics.

Provides a consolidated learning tool for 1394 hardware and software. This book provides an in-depth description of the IEEE 1394a cable environment, based on the 2.0 version of the 1394a standard. It details the specification itself and presents the architecture, features, and operations of systems developed with the Fire Wire bus.