Unique Chips and Systems

While the integration ability of modern semiconductor technology presents opportunities, issues in power consumption, reliability, and form-factor present challenges. This book explores systems and chips that provide new approaches to designing future computing and communication systems. It presents the TRIPS processor architecture and microarchitecture, the CELL processor from IBM STI, and the continuation based Fuce multi-threading processor. Extended analog computers, Ravenscar, hardware-implemented run-time kernel with delay queues, formal state models and their simulations, and example graphics applications that require enormous computing power complete the coverage.
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