Computer Architecture and Logic Design Books

This book celebrates the most exciting period in the history of technology - the arrival of the home computer and home gaming console. YouTube's most successful purveyor of computer nostalgia brings those stories to print. More

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Modeling Enterprise Architecture with TOGAF explains everything you need to know to effectively model enterprise architecture with The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), the leading EA standard. This solution-focused reference presents key techniques and illustrative examples to help you… More

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The understanding of fundamental computer components and systems lies at the heart of those enabling computer technologies that pervade our lives. Principles of Computer Hardware explores the fundamentals of computer structure, architecture, and programming that underpin the array of computerized… More

Building upon the success of best-sellers The Clean Coder and Clean Code, legendary software craftsman Robert C. "Uncle Bob" Martin shows how to bring greater professionalism and discipline to application architecture and design. More

The Physics of Computing gives a foundational view of the physical principles underlying computers. Performance, power, thermal behavior, and reliability are all harder and harder to achieve as transistors shrink to nanometer scales. This book describes the physics of computing at all levels of… More

This second edition continues to provide a clear introduction to formal reasoning which is both relevant to the needs of modern computer science and rigorous enough for practical application. Improvements have been made throughout, with many extra and expanded sections and exercises. The coverage… More

Hardware Security: A Hands-On Learning Approach provides a broad, comprehensive and practical overview of hardware security that encompasses all levels of the electronic hardware infrastructure. It covers basic concepts like advanced attack techniques and countermeasures that are illustrated… More

Updated and revised to reflect the most current data in the field, perennial bestseller The Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture, Fourth Edition is comprehensive enough to address all necessary organization and architecture topics, but concise enough to be appropriate for a… More

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For courses in Logic and Computer design. More

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Learn the Raspberry Pi 3 from the experts! Raspberry Pi User Guide, 4th Edition is the "unofficial official" guide to everything Raspberry Pi 3. Written by the Pi's creator and a leading Pi guru, this book goes straight to the source to bring you the ultimate Raspberry Pi 3 manual. More

The Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP) is an international standard that provides a solid basis for describing and building widely distributed systems and applications in a systematic way. It stresses the need to build these systems with evolution in mind by identifying the… More

Malware analysis and memory forensics are powerful analysis and investigation techniques used in reverse engineering, digital forensics, and incident response. This book teaches you the concepts, tools, and techniques to determine the behavior and characteristics of malware using malware analysis… More

An interdisciplinary guide to enabling technologies for 3D ICs and 5G mobility, covering packaging, design to product life and reliability assessments More

Contains papers presented at the DIMACS workshop on Specification of Parallel Algorithms, held in May 1994 at Princeton University. This book contains topics such as specification techniques for concurrent and distributed systems, behavioral and operational specification techniques, and parallel… More

The new RISC-V Edition of Computer Organization and Design features the RISC-V open source instruction set architecture, the first open source architecture designed to be used in modern computing environments such as cloud computing, mobile devices, and other embedded systems. More

An understanding of high speed interconnect phenomena is necessary for modern designs such as routing and layout of computer motherboards. Computers have reached speeds where digital design must provide for these effects. The problem is that most engineers active today have not been trained in this subject. More

Use your Raspberry Pi to get smart about computing fundamentals In the 1980s, the tech revolution was kickstarted by a flood of relatively inexpensive, highly programmable computers like the Commodore. Now, a second revolution in computing is beginning with the Raspberry Pi. More

Presenting the goals that drive the developers of the best-known peer-to-peer systems, this text explores the problems they've faced, and the technical solutions they've found. Topics include metadata, performance, trust, resource allocation, reputation, and security. More

The eagerly anticipated new edition of the bestselling introduction to x86 assembly language The long-awaited third edition of this bestselling introduction to assembly language has been completely rewritten to focus on 32-bit protected-mode Linux and the free NASM assembler. More

This book is an accessible and scientifically rigorous introduction to the principles of logical reasoning, covering many topics including the deductive machinery of metalogic, otherwise known as the nature and function of proofs. It will be valuable to students of logic, mathematics and computer science. More

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When we think about processor intensive applications, we think about parallel computing. This book discusses what parallel computing is and how it can be achieved. Parallel computing cannot be achieved by hardware or software alone, but by a combination of these two. At the lowest level, this book… More

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Learn to program the Propeller in Spin and C and how to map the Propeller Assembler (PASM) language from other high-level languages you might know. More

This book provides students with a system-level perspective and the tools they need to understand, analyze and design complete digital systems using Verilog. It goes beyond the design of simple combinational and sequential modules to show how such modules are used to build complete systems,… More

Arcadia is a system engineering method based on the use of models, with a focus on the collaborative definition, evaluation and exploitation of its architecture. More

"This title presents computing systems as a series of layers, taking a bottoms -up approach by starting with low-level hardware and progressing to higher-level software. It is geared towards the computer scientist, as opposed to the computer engineer"-- More

Analyzing how hacks are done, so as to stop them in the future Reverse engineering is the process of analyzing hardware or software and understanding it, without having access to the source code or design documents. Hackers are able to reverse engineer systems and exploit what they find with scary results. More

Handbook of Signal Processing Systems is organized in three parts. the third part focuses on compilers and simulation tools, describes models of computation and their associated design tools and methodologies. More

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Sixth Edition has been considered essential reading by instructors, students and practitioners of computer design for over 20 years. The sixth edition of this classic textbook from Hennessy and Patterson, winners of the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award… More

Systems Architecture Modeling with the Arcadia Method is an illustrative guide for the understanding and implementation of model-based systems and architecture engineering with the Arcadia method, using Capella, a new open-source solution. More

Process-Driven SOA: Patterns for Aligning Business and IT supplies detailed guidance on how to design and build software architectures that follow the principles of business-IT alignment. It illustrates the design process using proven patterns that address complex business/technical scenarios,… More

Professional CUDA Programming in C provides down to earth coverage of the complex topic of parallel computing, a topic increasingly essential in every day computing. This entry-level programming book for professionals turns complex subjects into easy-to-comprehend concepts and easy-to-follows steps. More

High Performance Computing: Modern Systems and Practices is a fully comprehensive and easily accessible treatment of high performance computing, covering fundamental concepts and essential knowledge while also providing key skills training. With this book, domain scientists will learn how to use… More

Navigation Design and SEO for Content-Intensive Websites: A Guide for an Efficient Digital Communication presents the characteristics and principal guidelines for the analysis and design of efficient navigation and information access systems on content-intensive websites, such as magazines and… More

Focusing on the use of the UEFI Shell and its recently released formal specification, this book unlocks a wide range of usage models which can help people best utilize the shell solutions. This text also expands on the obvious intended utilization of the shell and explains how it can be used in… More

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Parallel Programming: Concepts and Practice provides an upper level introduction to parallel programming. In addition to covering general parallelism concepts, this text teaches practical programming skills for both shared memory and distributed memory architectures. The authors' open-source system… More

A comprehensive examination of the interfaces of logic, computer science, and game theory, drawing on twenty years of research on logic and games. More

The definitive presentation of Soar, one AI's most enduring architectures, offering comprehensive descriptions of fundamental aspects and new components. More

This collection of new AI theories and experiments examines the impact on research in artificial intelligence that the increased sophistication and availability of massively parallel supercomputers has had. Topics covered include: associate memory; neural networks; and genetic algorithms. More

Contains papers on the development and assessment of approximation and solution techniques that can take advantage of parallel computers. This work is suitable for applied mathematicians, computer scientists, and engineers concerned with investigating the future directions in numerical computing. More

This book looks at relationships between the organization of physical objects in space and the organization of ideas. Historical, philosophical, psychological and architectural knowledge are united to develop an understanding of the relationship between information and its representation. More

Due to the growth of Internet-driven applications, issues such as storage capacity and access speed have become critical in the design of computer systems. This book serves as a reference source on the subject of high-performance, large scale storage and delivery systems. It contains information… More

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Guides the reader through the development of object-oriented, distributed business systems using CORBA. More

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A collection of 19 papers on logical and practical aspects of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for computing and applications. More

Covers the Third DIMACS Implementation Challenge that was conducted as part of the 1993-1994 Special Year on Parallel Algorithms. This book includes two problem areas for research study: tree searching algorithms, used in game search and combinatorial optimization, for example, and algorithms for… More

Investigates the origin, background, and components of Grid, a computing model. This book presents various concepts and analyzes various ideas in the context of Grid, educating organizations as to how Grid can increase their computing power and strengthen their operations. It helps to learn what… More

Explains how HTS is able to explore the synthesis freedom provided at high-level to derive an inherently testable architecture at low or even overhead. This text provides an introduction to HTS and helps develop an understanding of this emerging technology. More

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This comprehensive introduction to parallel computing is for students and practitioners alike. It covers both theoretical and practical issues, including fundamentals of concurrent processes, metrics for evaluating and comparing parallel algorithms, and standards for parallel program… More

Learn to combine security theory and code to produce secure systems Security is clearly a crucial issue to consider during the design and implementation of any distributed software architecture. Security patterns are increasingly being used by developers who take security into serious consideration… More

Run-time Management techniques for Many-core Architectures More