Computers as Components: Principles of Embedded Computing System Design

by Marilyn Wolf Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

Overview

Computers as Components: Principles of Embedded Computing System Design, Fifth Edition continues to focus on foundational content in embedded systems technology and design while updating material throughout the book and introducing new content on machine learning and Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323851282
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	09/13/2022
Series:	The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design
Edition description:	5th ed.
Pages:	560
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Marilyn Wolf is Elmer E. Koch Professor of Engineering and Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. She received her BS, MS, and PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University. She was with AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1984 to 1989, was on the faculty of Princeton University from 1989 to 2007 and was Farmer Distinguished Chair in Embedded Computing Systems and GRA Eminent Scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 2007 to 2019. Her research interests include cyber-physical systems, Internet-of-Things, embedded computing, embedded computer vision, and VLSI systems. She has received the IEEE Computer Society Goode Memorial Award, the ASEE Terman Award, and IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Education Award. She is a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM and a Golden Core member of IEEE Computer Society. Professor Wolf is the author of several successful Morgan Kaufmann textbooks: Computers as Components, Fifth Edition (2022); High-Performance Embedded Computing, Second Edition (2014); The Physics of Computing, First Edition (2016); and Embedded System Interfacing, First Edition (2019).

Table of Contents

1. Embedded Computing
2. Instruction Sets
3. CPUs
4. Computing Platforms
5. Program Design and Analysis
6. Processes and Operating Systems
7. System Design Techniques
8. Internet-of-Things Systems
9. Machine Learning and Edge Intelligence
10. Automotive and Aerospace Systems
11. Multiprocessors

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As the leading embedded computing systems textbook, this new edition is updated to include new content on security and safety, the design of Internet-of-Things devices and systems, and wireless communications standards like Bluetooth® and ZigBee®

Editorial Reviews

"This book is a good textbook for any introductory course in embedded systems design, and it can also serve in a more advanced capacity.[...] If you need to teach a course on embedded systems, or if you just want to learn on your own, I recommend taking a good look at this text." —Grant Martin, "Teaching someone to fish," IEEE Design and Test of Computers, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 106-107, Sep./Oct. 2009

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