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Hardware and software support for virtualization
This book focuses on the core question of the necessary architectural support provided by hardware to efficiently run virtual machines, and of the corresponding design of the hypervisors that run them. Virtualization is still possible when the instruction set architecture lacks such support, but the hypervisor remains more complex and must rely on additional techniques. Despite the focus on architectural support in current architectures, some historical perspective is necessary to appropriately frame the problem. The first half of the book provides the historical perspective of the theoretical framework developed four decades ago by Popek and Goldberg. It also describes earlier systems that enabled virtualization despite the lack of architectural support in hardware. As is often the case, theory defines a necessary-but not sufficient-set of features, and modern architectures are the result of the combination of the theoretical framework with insights derived from practical systems. The second half of the book describes state-of-the-art support for virtualization in both x86-64 and ARM processors. This book includes an in-depth description of the CPU, memory, and I/O virtualization of these two processor architectures, as well as case studies on the Linux/KVM, VMware, and Xen hypervisors. It concludes with a performance comparison of virtualization on current-generation x86- and ARM-based systems across multiple hypervisors.
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Fast and effective embedded systems design : applying the ARM mbed
Fast and Effective Embedded Systems Design is a fast-moving introduction to embedded system design, applying the innovative ARM mbed and its web-based development environment.Each chapter introduces a major topic in embedded systems, and proceeds as a series of practical experiments, adopting a \"learning through doing\" strategy.
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Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems
Tackling the questions that systems designers care about, this book brings queueing theory decisively back to computer science. The book is written with computer scientists and engineers in mind and is full of examples from computer systems, as well as manufacturing and operations research. Fun and readable, the book is highly approachable, even for undergraduates, while still being thoroughly rigorous and also covering a much wider span of topics than many queueing books. Readers benefit from a lively mix of motivation and intuition, with illustrations, examples and more than 300 exercises – all while acquiring the skills needed to model, analyze and design large-scale systems with good performance and low cost. The exercises are an important feature, teaching research-level counterintuitive lessons in the design of computer systems. The goal is to train readers not only to customize existing analyses but also to invent their own.
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Applied Control Theory for Embedded Systems
Many embedded engineers and programmers who need to implement basic process or motion control as part of a product design do not have formal training or experience in control system theory. Although some projects require advanced and very sophisticated control systems expertise, the majority of embedded control problems can be solved without resorting to heavy math and complicated control theory. However, existing texts on the subject are highly mathematical and theoretical and do not offer practical examples for embedded designers. This book is different; it presents mathematical background with sufficient rigor for an engineering text, but it concentrates on providing practical application examples that can be used to design working systems, without needing to fully understand the math and high-level theory operating behind the scenes. The author, an engineer with many years of experience in the application of control system theory to embedded designs, offers a concise presentation of the basics of control theory as it pertains to an embedded environment.
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Designing SOCs with Configured Cores
Microprocessor cores used for SOC design are the direct descendents of Intel's original 4004 microprocessor.Just as packaged microprocessor ICs vary widely in their attributes, so do microprocessors packaged as IP cores.
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Power systems analysis illustrated with MATLABھ and ETAPھ
\"Electrical power is harnessed using several energy sources, including: coal, hydel, nuclear, solar, and wind. Generated power is needed to be transferred over long distances to support load requirements of customers viz: residential, industrial, and commercial. This necessitates proper design and analysis of Power Systems to efficiently control the power flow from one point to the other without delay, disturbance, or interference. Ideal for utility and power system designer professionals and students, this book is richly illustrated with MATLAB and etap (Electrical Transient Analysis Program) to succinctly illustrate concepts throughout, and includes examples, case studies, and problems\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Building dependable distributed systems
A guide to the essential techniques for designing and building dependable distributed systems. Instead of covering a broad range of research works for each dependability strategy, it focuses on only a selected few, explaining each in depth, usually with a comprehensive set of examples.
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