Computers as Components: Principles of Embedded Computing System Design 3rd Edition
Author(s): Marilyn Wolf (Author)
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Publication Date: 9 May 2012
Edition: 3rd
Language: English
Print length: 528 pages
ISBN-10: 0123884365
ISBN-13: 9780123884367
Book Description
Computers as Components: Principles of Embedded Computing System Design, 3e, presents essential knowledge on embedded systems technology and techniques. Updated for today’s embedded systems design methods, this edition features new examples including digital signal processing, multimedia, and cyber-physical systems. Author Marilyn Wolf covers the latest processors from Texas Instruments, ARM, and Microchip Technology plus software, operating systems, networks, consumer devices, and more. Like the previous editions, this textbook: Uses real processors to demonstrate both technology and techniquesShows readers how to apply principles to actual design practiceStresses necessary fundamentals that can be applied to evolving technologies and helps readers gain facility to design large, complex embedded systems Updates in this edition include: Description of cyber-physical systems: physical systems with integrated computation to give new capabilitiesExploration of the PIC and TI OMAP processorsHigh-level representations of systems using signal flow graphsEnhanced material on interprocess communication and buffering in operating systemsDesign examples include an audio player, digital camera, cell phone, and more
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Compared to other leading academic books on embedded systems, this book takes a more structural approach to the discipline…this book presents components in detail and then discusses how they can be integrated into a system, mainly through examples. This makes it suitable for students and practitioners without a strong background in computer architecture, as the book gently introduces the basics of the subject…” –Computing Reviews, February 21, 2013
“This update of the 2008 edition by Wayne Wolfe keeps pace with the growing prevalence of embedded processors, “systems-on-chips,” in products ranging from automobiles and airplanes to alarm clocks and toys.” –Reference and Research Book News, December 2012
Review
Update of the leading embedded computing systems text for today’s embedded courses, featuring new examples and the latest processors from Texas Instruments, ARM, and Microchip Technology
About the Author
Marilyn Wolf is Farmer Distinguished Chair and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She received her BS, MS, and PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1980, 1981, and 1984, respectively. She was with AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1984 to 1989. She was on the faculty of Princeton University from 1989 to 2007. Her research interests included embedded computing, embedded video and computer vision, and VLSI systems. She has received the ASEE Terman Award and IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Education Award. She is a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM and an IEEE Computer Society Golden Core member.
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