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High-Performance Embedded Computing: Architectures, Applications, and Methodologies

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Now and then a book comes along to open your eyes. I've been developing embedded computing solutions for 20 years and thought I knew a thing or two about this important computing discipline. Wayne Wolf's book put structure and analysis around what I knew (and thought was just improvised) and taught me a lot more about industrial-strength solutions. Wish to use the correct model of computation for your real-time application? Start with this book and follow the leads. Want to minimize memory? Practical algorithms are here. Need to balance throughput and latency? Go no further. Have to develop software and hardware concurrently? Get the right picture in the last chapter. Above all, the book gives excellent coverage of critical issues for migrating uniprocessor code to multiprocessors.

I only wish that the solution manual could be available to those of us who are not instructors but work in the industry, and I feel the Index ought to be expanded. Otherwise a perfect book for embedded computing professionals and students.

Well, here and then comes a book that really makes me wish I had read more of its content before buying. The book covers a wide variety of subject in computer architecture, but for every subject, the author just gloss over numerous technical paper and gives from a few lines to half page of description for each one of them (The reference section in the back of the book is 33 pages). At the end, I cannot get a good picture of what any of the solution really is. The book seems like a collection of abstract of many people's paper, but it's not clear whose solution is really effective or widely used by the industry.