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The book provides a comprehensive and in-depth view on the state-of-the-art embedded memory technologies. The book helps practicing engineers grasp key technology attributes and advanced design techniques in nano-scale VLSI design. It also helps them make decisions concerning the right design tradeoffs in real product development.

This book first provides an overview on the landscape and trend of embedded memory in various VLSI system designs, including high-performance microprocessor, low-power mobile handheld devices, micro-controllers, and various consumer electronics. It then shows an in-depth view on each different type of embedded memory technology, including high-speed SRAM, ultra-low-voltage and alternative SRAM, embedded DRAM, embedded nonvolatile memory, and emerging or so-called “universal” memories such as FeRAM, MRAM, and PRAM. Each topic covers all the key technology attributes from a product application perspective, ranging from technology scaling challenges to advanced circuit techniques for achieving optimal design tradeoff in performance and power. As VLSI systems become increasingly dependent on on-die memory to provide adequate memory bandwidth for various applications, the book gives readers a broader view of this important field and helps them to achieve their optimal design goals for different applications.

This book provides readers a broad knowledge on the entire embedded memory technologies in order to better comprehend the technologies and create optimal memory solutions in real applications.

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Leading problem -- Drive and memory problems are the leading technical problems with computers and this book focuses specifically on that point. It includes error codes and messages difficult to find elsewhere. A Quick Reference -- Unlike other "pocket references" which attempt to serve as miniature textbooks, this book is intended to provide concise, no-frills procedures and explanations. A reader can quickly find the answers to their drive and memory problems and questions. Handy, portable design -- The small trim size makes these books great for techniicans in the field. ... Read more

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Referencia
Cada profesional del servicio a computadoras debe tener una biblioteca de referencia y en ella tener este libro. Ayuda a resolver problemas no comunes que se presentan y causan dolores de cabeza. Como libro de referencia en el taller es muy bueno. Lo recomiendo en versiones más actualizadas.

A must have reference
The book is very useful in emergency cases, and every computer technician must have bigelow's book on his shelf. It is my first reference in times of troubleshooting. If you're already a guru, you can skip the explanation part of the subject you're interested in and merge directly into the symptoms section. I only wished that it coverd more topics like CPUs, Motherboards, expansion cards... The bottom line, It's a very good book. ... Read more

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This volume contains the conference proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Workshop on Memory Technology, Design and Testing. ... Read more

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An authoritative book for hardware and software designers. Caches are by far the simplest and most effective mechanism for improving computer performance. This innovative book exposes the characteristics of performance-optimal single and multi-level cache hierarchies by approaching the cache design process through the novel perspective of minimizing execution times. It presents useful data on the relative performance of a wide spectrum of machines and offers empirical and analytical evaluations of the underlying phenomena. This book will help computer professionals appreciate the impact of caches and enable designers to maximize performance given particular implementation constraints.

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a book NOT for designer
"If you plane to design a Cache memory system, this book is NOT for you. It's just a collection of statistcal measurements."

Outdated, software-centric
The big problem with this book is that it's outdated. More than fifteen years old, it studies relatively small kilobyte-sized caches when today's computers are using multi-megabyte caches. The treatment of multi-level caches isn't very strong, and ignores L3 caches completely. The book studies VAX and old RISC architectures, which have some carry-over to today's machines but are not directly applicable. The book doesn't describe MESI or any of the related multi-processor protocols.

The blurb here at Amazon says the book is useful to both software and hardware engineers, though I can't imagine that to be true. The hardware-appropriate details only cover power consumption, and don't deal with partitioning, leveling, associativity imlpementations, concurrency, and so on.

But on to the strong points: The book does a great job of explaining how older memory caches work. The main point of the book, in fact, is developing, describing, and studying mathematical models for cache performance and implementation. The author examines a variety of different structures for caches, both in commercial products and in hypothetical architectures.

By simulating the performance of the respective machiens, he shows how they really work. Trade-offs between cache size, block size, and set associativity are modeled and graphed very carefully, and the tradeoffs discussed in-depth.

I just love some of the sundries the book offers: a thoughtful symbols table explains the variables and the symbols the author consistently uses throughout the book. The biblography is very valuable. though it doesn't cite any papers newer than 1990, it provides a wealth of references for further research. The index could have used a little more attention. ... Read more

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The definitive work on PC memory management. Throughout the book numerous examples, detailed memory maps, and graphics help readers understand memory management topics. This edition of the "Elephant Book" includes a disk that includes a number of reporting utilities, example memory management related batch files, and utilities designed to help control your PC's use of memory (DOS and Windows versions). (Operating Systems) ... Read more

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The workshop on Scalable Shared Memory Multiprocessors took place on May 26 & 27 1990 in Seattle, Wa. About 100 participants heard 22 presentations from leaders in academia and industry.

The contributions of these proceedings can be partitioned into four categories: 1) Access Order and Synchronization 2) Performance 3) Cache Protocols and Architectures 4) Distributed Shared Memory

Particular topics on which new ideas and results are presented in these proceedings include: efficient schemes for combining networks, formal specification of shared-memory models, correctness of trace-driven simulations, synchronization, various coherence protocols, an evaluation of directory schemes, discussions on scalability, and info on projects such as the MIT Alewife, the CMU PLUS and the Rice University MUNIN Proejcts. ... Read more

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Model based testing is the most powerful technique for testing hardware and software systems. Models in Hardware Testing describes the use of models at all the levels of hardware testing. The relevant fault models for nanoscaled CMOS technology are introduced, and their implications on fault simulation, automatic test pattern generation, fault diagnosis, memory testing and power aware testing are discussed. Models and the corresponding algorithms are considered with respect to the most recent state of the art, and they are put into a historical context by a concluding chapter on the use of physical fault models in fault tolerance.

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This guide is a detailed look at flash memory including its uses, hardware and software considerations, PCMCIA requirements, and basic design principles. Examined are both hardware and software considerations, as well as discussions of applications, flash technologies, packaging, hardware and software interfacing, power requirements and more. ... Read more

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This work is devoted to the formal verification ofthe VAMP memory unit (MU) and based on the workcarried out in [Dal06]. The new design of the MU,developed here, contains translation look-asidebuffers (TLB) for fast virtual address translationinside the memory management units (MMU) and supportsaccesses to external devices.A computer-aided verification tool used throughoutthe whole work is an interactive theorem proverIsabelle/HOL bound [Tve05] with the NuSMV [CCG+02]and SMV [McM99] model checkers. The results(correctness proofs and models of hardware blocks)are presented as Isabelle mathematical theories. Thework is described formally and paper-and-pencilproofs are provided. ... Read more

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This guide covers every aspect of memory management and all memory managers for IBM and compatible computers. Readers will learn how memory works in their PCs and where it's located. They'll discover how memory managers work, and how to troubleshoot DOS or Windows system problems. The authors also provide solutions to memory management problems on LANs. The focus is on maximizing the effectiveness of the computer's memory and getting the most out of memory management software. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! SimpleTech is a consumer brand of external hard drives and backup products owned by Fabrik Inc. and designed to integrate hardware, software, and online services to help consumers store, protect, manage, and share digital content. The brand and product line was originally created by Simple Technology, a company founded in 1990, which later changed its name to SimpleTech in 2001. SimpleTech (now STEC) sold the SimpleTech brand and consumer products: flash memory cards, USB flash drives, memory upgrades, and external and portable disk drive storage, to Fabrik in February 2007. Fabrik acquired the SimpleTech?s storage platform to integrate and deliver backup and content management software and web services (FabrikUltimateBackup.com and Joggle.com), allowing consumers to store, access, manage and share their digital content. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from EDP Weekly's IT Monitor, published by Millin Publishing, Inc. on October 23, 2000. The length of the article is 563 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This digital document is an article from EDP Weekly's IT Monitor, published by Millin Publishing, Inc. on December 11, 2000. The length of the article is 534 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: SST OFFERS FLASH MEMORY PRODUCTS IN INDUSTRY'S SMALLEST MICRO-BGA PACKAGE.(Product Announcement)
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Title: STMICROELECTRONICS INTROS APP-SPECIFIC FLASH MEMORY FOR FIRMWARE HUB BIOS.(Product Announcement)
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This digital document is an article from EDP Weekly's IT Monitor, published by Millin Publishing, Inc. on November 20, 2000. The length of the article is 429 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: STMICROELECTRONICS ANNOUNCES APPLICATION-SPECIFIC FLASH MEMORY FOR FIRMWARE HUB BIOS.(Product Announcement)
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