PowerPC step-by-step from a system point of view.

Powerpc System Architecture (PC System Architecture Series)

Science & Math

Shanley, Tom

Mathematics

Mindshare Pr

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.The PC System Architecture Series is a crisply written and comprehensive set of guides to the most important PC hardware standards. Each title explains from a programmer's perspective the architecture, features, and operations of systems built using one particular type of chip or hardware specification.The PC System Architecture Series features step-by-step descriptions and instructions and accessible illustrations that enable a wide range of readers to easily understand difficult hardware topics. The authors, expert hardware training consultants for clients including IBM, Intel, Compaq, and Dell, have mastered the art of pinpointing and succinctly explaining just the critical information that PC programmers, software and hardware designers, and engineers need to know and leaving out the rest. The result is an exciting series of books that will enable readers of a wide range of backgrounds to make immediate gains in programming productivity.

80486 System Architecture (3rd Edition)

Computers & Technology

Software

A time-saving tool for those who design or test hardware or software that involves EISA (extension to the industry standard architecture). Describes EISA's hardware architecture, explains how EISA differs from ISA, and gives an overview of the bus structure, including bus masters and slaves, bus arbitration, and interrupt handling. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Eisa System Architecture (PC System Architecture, Vol 2)

Anderson, Don

Networking & Cloud Computing

"If he sends me into fire or into the ocean, I will go. I'll go for him." Temujin rose from exile and slavery to conquer the world. This is his story. In the same spirit as Shogun, James Clavell's epic historical novel of feudal Japan, Heaven's Favorite tells the tale of Temujin, the Mongol outcast who swept all before him to become Chinggis Khan, the founder of an empire six times larger than Rome's. Book One relates the story of his rise and the foundation of the Mongol empire. In 1167 A.D., eastern Asia is dominated by three powerful empires. Manchurian invaders, the Jurchen, have controlled northern China for more than a century, and the Chinese Sung dynasty reigns in southern China. To the west, the Tibetan Xi Xia empire has ruled the area south of the Gobi and west of the Yellow River for over a hundred years. A fractious collection of Mongol tribes, their divisions inflamed by the manipulative Jurchens, occupy a small area southeast of Lake Baikal. The son of a tribal chieftain betrayed by self-serving relatives, Temujin finds himself banished to a life of exile and poverty at the age of ten. Rejecting blood ties to the nobility, his childhood love becomes his wife and most trusted advisor as he assembles about himself a small band, his future generals, who will remain with him for the rest of his life. Heaven's Favorite paints a vivid portrait of the Asia of eight hundred years ago as Temujin's story unfolds. Book two, Dominion: Dawn of the Mongol Empire, completes this epic tale. In pursuit of the true story behind this saga, the author visited China and traveled over forty-five hundred kilometers through the Mongolian countryside in the company of Mongol scholars.

Heaven's Favorite (Ascent: the Rise of Chinggis Khan)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Heaven's Favorite paints a vivid portrait of the Asia of eight hundred years ago in which Temujin's story unfolds. Over the past eight hundred years, our collective memory of Chinggis Khan has been reduced to a grotesque caricature of an archetypical despot. Like his contemporaries in those harsh times, he proved himself capable of great cruelty. Unlike many, however, he was also capable of extraordinary good.

Heaven's Favorite: Dominion: Dawn of the Mongol Empire