The Physics of Computing

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-12-809381-8
Verlag: William Andrew Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

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.

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.

Zielgruppe

<p>Primary: Undergraduate students in computer engineering, electrical engineering, computer science. For EEs, provides fundamentals of computing that links core EE concepts to computing. For CS, provides foundations of key challenges such as power consumption, performance, and thermal.</p> <p>Secondary: Some professional reference uses for people who want the basics for topics such as heat dissipation, leakage, performance, etc.</p>

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wolf, Marilyn

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Electronic Computers

Chapter 2. Transistors and Integrated Circuits

Chapter 3. Logic Gates

Chapter 4. Sequential Machines

Chapter 5. Processors and Systems

Chapter 6. Input and Output

Chapter 7. Emerging Technologies

Über Autor(innen)

Wolf, Marilyn
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).