Last edition Elsevier 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 abstraction from single gates to complete computer systems.
Last Edition
ISBN 13: 9780128093818
Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann
Language: English
Authors: Marilyn Wolf
Pub Date: 11/2016
Pages: 276
Illus: Illustrated
Weight: 590.00 grams
Size: h 191 X 235 mm
Product Type: Softcover
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- • It can be used as a course for juniors or seniors in computer engineering and electrical engineering, and can also be used to teach students in other scientific disciplines important concepts in computing.
- • For electrical engineering, the book provides the fundamentals of computing that link core concepts to computing.
- • For computer science, it provides foundations of key challenges such as power consumption, performance, and thermal.
- • The book can also be used as a technical reference by professionals.
- • Links fundamental physics to the key challenges in computer design, including memory wall, power wall, reliability
- • Provides all of the background necessary to understand the physical underpinnings of key computing concepts
- • Covers all the major physical phenomena in computing from transistors to systems, including logic, interconnect, memory, clocking, I/O
- Marilyn Wolf is Farmer Distinguished Chair and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is the author of two successful Morgan Kaufmann textbooks on embedded systems: Computers as Components, Third Edition (2012; 4e under contract); and High-Performance Embedded Computing, Second Edition (2014).
- • Preface •
- Chapter 1. Electronic Computers o
- 1.1. Introduction o 1.2. The long road to computers o 1.3. Computer system metrics o 1.4. A tour of this book o 1.5. Synthesis •
- Chapter 2. Transistors and Integrated Circuits o
- 2.1. Introduction o 2.2. Electron devices and electronic circuits o 2.3. Physics of materials o 2.4. Solid-state devices o 2.5. Integrated circuits o 2.6. Synthesis •
- Chapter 3. Logic Gates o
- 3.1. Introduction o 3.2. The CMOS inverter o 3.3. Static gate characteristics o 3.4. Delay o 3.5. Power and energy o 3.6. Scaling theory o 3.7. Reliability o 3.8. Synthesis •
- Chapter 4. Sequential Machines o
- 4.1. Introduction o 4.2. Combinational logic o 4.3. Interconnect o 4.4. Sequential machines o 4.5. Synthesis •
- Chapter 5. Processors and Systems o
- 5.1. Introduction o 5.2. System reliability o 5.3. Processors o 5.4. Memory o 5.5. Mass storage o 5.6. System power consumption o 5.7. Heat transfer o 5.8. Synthesis •
- Chapter 6. Input and Output o
- 6.1. Introduction o 6.2. Displays o 6.3. Image sensors o 6.4. Touch sensors o 6.5. Microphones o 6.6. Accelerometers and inertial sensors o 6.7. Synthesis •
- Chapter 7. Emerging Technologies o
- 7.1. Introduction o 7.2. Carbon nanotubes o 7.3. Quantum computers o 7.4. Synthesis •
- Appendix A. Useful Constants and Formulas •
- Appendix B. Circuits •
- Appendix C. Probability •
- Appendix D. Advanced Topics •
- References •
- Index
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