Computer Engineering
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Computer Engineering

A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design

  1. 608 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Computer Engineering

A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design

About this book

Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design focuses on the principles, progress, and concepts in the design of hardware systems. The selection first elaborates on the seven views of computer systems, technology progress in logic and memories, and packaging and manufacturing. Concerns cover power supplies, DEC computer packaging generations, general packaging, semiconductor logic technology, memory technology, measuring (and creating) technology progress, structural levels of a computer system, and packaging levels-of -integration. The manuscript then examines transistor circuitry in the Lincoln TX-2, digital modules, PDP-1 and other 18-bit computers, PDP-8 and other 12-bit computers, and structural levels of the PDP-8. The text takes a look at cache memories for PDP-11 family computers, buses, DEC LSI-11, and design decisions for the PDP-11/60 mid-range minicomputer. Topics include reliability and maintainability, price/performance balance, advances in memory technology, synchronization of data transfers, error control strategies, PDP-11/45, PDP-11/20, and cache organization. The selection is a fine reference for practicing computer designers, users, programmers, designers of peripherals and memories, and students of computer engineering and computer science.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Computer Engineering: A Dec View of Hardware Systems Design
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. FOREWORD
  6. PREFACE
  7. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  8. Chapter 1. Seven Views of Computer Systems
  9. Chapter 2. Technology Progress in Logic and Memories
  10. Chapter 3. Packaging and Manufacturing
  11. PART 1: IN THE BEGINNING
  12. PART 2: BEGINNING OF THE MINICOMPUTER
  13. PART 3: THE PDP-11 FAMILY
  14. PART 4: EVOLUTION OF COMPUTER BUILDING BLOCKS
  15. PART 5: THE PDP-10 FAMILY
  16. APPENDIX 1: An ISPS Primer for the Instruction Set Processor Notation
  17. APPENDIX 2: The PMS Notation
  18. APPENDIX 3: Performance
  19. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  20. INDEX

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