Computer System Design
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Designing High-Speed Interconnect Circuits - Advanced Signal Integrity Methods for Engineers
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Personal computer data rates have already climbed into the multi-Gigahertz frequency range that requires microwave design techniques for interconnect circuitry. Have your design skills kept pace? Most digital designers were trained in an era when you could use idealized models to simplify circuitry design. The very high speeds demanded for today's computers negate the benefits and applicability of those idealizations, thereby threatening a generation of designers with obsolesce. Microwave design uses a new vocabulary; both the words and the concepts are often unfamiliar to digital designers. This book provides sorely needed information that is both appropriate to the 21st century PC industry and explained in terms digital designers understand. Written for the experienced engineer who is responsible for signal integrity, Designing High-Speed Interconnect Circuits provides you with the skills to cope with high-speed technologies, such as PCI Express. This introduction to the properties, mathematics, and methods helps you understand the concepts behind the buzzwords and bootstrap yourself into the world of microwave frequency circuit design. | |
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Introduction to PCI Express* - A Hardware and Software Developer's Guide
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This book offers an introduction to PCI Express*, a new I/O technology for desktop, mobile, server and communications platforms designed to allow increasing levels of computer system performance. Hardware and software developers will discover how to employ PCI Express technology to overcome the practical performance limits of existing multi-drop, parallel bus technology. Introduction to PCI Express explains critical technical considerations that both hardware and software developers need to understand to take full advantage of PCI Express technology in next generation systems. Learn about: Metrics and criteria for developers and product planners to consider in adopting PCI Express. Applications for desktop, mobile, server and communications platforms that will benefit significantly from PCI Express technology. Implications for hardware and software developers of the layered architecture of PCI Express. Features of PCI Express available in legacy software environments. Comparison of features of PCI Express, PCI-X and PCI. New form factors and mechanical designs enabled by PCI Express. | |
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Serial ATA Storage Architecture and Applications - Designing High-Performance, Cost-Effective I/O Solutions
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Today, hard disk drives for desktop PCs, laptops, servers, and storage appliances use either Parallel ATA or SCSI interconnect technology. Serial ATA is the new storage interconnect standard for these systems. Computer engineers and architects who plan to incorporate Serial ATA in new products must answer questions such as: "Why make the change? What problems does Serial ATA solve for me? How do I transition from Parallel ATA to Serial ATA and from SCSI to Serial ATA?" This book helps you answer these questions. If you are a systems engineer, product architect, or product line manager, you could be asked to contribute to the planning process for a transition to Serial ATA. This book provides you with reliable information, in sufficient technical depth to help you implement the Serial ATA specifications. Topics include PHY signaling and interface states, protocol encoding, programming model, flow control, performance, compatibility with legacy systems, enclosure management, signal routing, hot-plug, presence detection, activity indication, power management, and cable/connector standards. Serial ATA Storage Architecture and Applications brings you authoritative insights on: The goals driving Serial ATA standard development The advantages of Serial ATA adoption for OEMs, IHVs, and end-users Capabilities defined by the Serial ATA 1.0 and Serial ATA II standards, with "under the covers" explanations of how Serial ATA works Performance and reliability characteristics of Serial ATA Hands-on, how-to designs for building real-world systems that use Serial ATA | |
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PCI Express* Electrical Interconnect Design - Practical Solutions for Board-Level Integration and Validation
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Intel and other companies throughout the computer and communications industries are adopting PCI Express* technology as the successor to today's Conventional PCI* and PCI-X* architectures. The PCI Express serial architecture offers scalable bandwidth and advanced features to meet the I/O needs of next-generation systems. PCI Express* Electrical Interconnect Design is a how-to guide for system design engineers, board and layout designers, signal integrity engineers, communication high-speed designers, test engineers and technicians, and validation engineers. With design flowcharts, example schematics, and testing checklists at your fingertips, you will learn how to translate PCI Express electrical specifications into a reliable and robust interface implementation. Topics include: Desktop, server, workstation, mobile, and communication system designs Modeling and simulation in both frequency and time domains Design guidelines for layout Validation of the final design using measurement and correlation procedures | |
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Building the Power-Efficient PC - A Developers Guide to ACPI Power Management
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Here is the first comprehensive hardware and software engineering guide for designing power-managed PCs. Written by PC experts, this book provides developers and integrators with practical knowledge and design techniques for building PCs that address the increasing demand for energy conservation. With power management, a PC can have lower overall power utilization, automated off-hours maintenance, and an improved end-user experience. Recent regulations and labeling programs mandate tighter restrictions on platform power consumption. PC hardware developers, software programmers, and system integrators must work together to build systems that meet the new power management guielines. Instead of rehashing specifications, Building the Power-Efficient PC clearly explains how a properly designed system functions during power state transitions and shows you in detail how those transitions can be implemented in the hardware and software. Topics include: Background and history of PC power management Key power management concepts Control flow through power states Design considerations for desktop and mobile hardware Drivers for Microsoft Windows* and Linux* Specific techniques for application software Testing and validation In addition, a companion CD-ROM provides all of the latest power management specifications and reference materials to help you design your product. | |
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USB Design by Example - A Practical Guide to Building I/O Devices
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This unique guide goes beyond all the Universal Serial Bus (USB) specification overviews to provide you with the expert knowledge and skills you need to design and implement USB I/O devices. It is organized around a series of fully documented, real-world examples, and is structured to serve as both a step-by-step guide for creating specific devices and a complete reference to USB. Design examples cover most USB classes (HID, communications, audio, mass-storage and hub) and provide insights into high-speed USB 2.0 devices, including a device driver for a vendor class called blockio. Intel insider John Hyde: Provides examples, complete with schematics and source code, that gradually increase in complexity Describes many vendor solutions and shows how to pick the ones best suited to your project needs Explains how to design a vast array of devices, including data acquisition, audio, video and computer-telephony examples The CD-ROM contains: Source code and project files for all the examples in the book (PC Host and I/O device) Evaluation versions of design and debug tools The USB specification and supporting class and test documents Categorized links to other USB solution suppliers | |
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High Definition Audio for the Digital Home - Proven Techniques For Getting It Right The First Time
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The personal computer is evolving to become an integral component of the digital home. Essential to assuming this new role will be the ability to deliver high-fidelity audio that is equivalent to home entertainment system audio. High Definition Audio for the Digital Home provides hardware and software developers a wealth of insight into all aspects of personal computer high definition audio subsystem design. From the critical considerations related to circuit board layout to overcoming challenges of audio latency, this book tells you how to specify and build each portion of a personal computer high definition audio subsystem. Highlights include: Key concepts for successful design and implementation of high definition audio based on personal computer hardware and software technologies. Complete signal path view with hardware and software layouts to understand how signals pass through the system and how control is handled. Intel® High Definition Audio specification examination and explanation. Unique challenges presented by laptop computers. Balancing usability, cost and audio performance. The challenges presented by digital rights management, security and copy protection. Performance characterization and certification of high definition audio designs. Fundamentals of audio design, audio interfaces, surround sound and signal processing. Numerous examples of potential problem areas with detailed design guidelines for maintaining audio quality from start to finish. | |
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The Intel Safer Computing Initiative - Building Blocks for Trusted Computing
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With the ever-increasing connectivity of home and business computers, it is essential that developers understand how the Intel Safer Computing Initiative can provide critical security building blocks to better protect the PC computing environment. A highly versatile set of hardware-based security enhancements, codenamed La Grande technology (LT), will be coming soon to Intel® processors, chipsets, and platforms. This book covers the fundamentals of LT and key Trusted Computing concepts such as security architecture, cryptography, trusted computer base, and trusted channels. Highlights include: History of trusted computing and definitions of key concepts Comprehensive overview of protections that are provided by La Grande technology Case study showing how access to memory is the focal point of an attack Protection methods for execution, memory, storage, input, and graphics How the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) supports attestation In this concise book, the lead security architect for Intel's next-generation security initiative provides critical information you need to evaluate Trusted Computing for use on today's PC systems and to prepare your designs to respond to future threats. | |
