Itanium Architecture for Software Developers [Paperback]

Walter A. Triebel (Author)

Book Description

Series: Engineer-to-Engineer | Publication Date: July 2000

This unique description of the Itanium-based application architecture helps the software development community to use the power of Intel's new line of Itanium processors. The book provides: Knowledge that helps developers understand how to create high-performance software by tapping the unique features of the architecture and corresponding compilers. Clear explanation of how the massively parallel Itanium architecture meets demand for increased throughput by Internet-based applications and e-commerce. Highlights of unique concepts that help the reader to understand how Itanium architecture differs from traditional architectures. Descriptions of salient features of the Itanium processor's application software architecture. This is the starter book for your collection on the new architecture. The target audience is a broad mixture of application developers who are creating new Itanium-based applications or are porting current applications to the new architecture. It is also a valuable resource for developers of firmware, system software, or operating systems. For those who want to know what's happening inside but don't wish to program in assembly language or tune applications with special tools, this book orients the software developer making the transition from 32-bit to 64-bit architecture.

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"Reading the Itanium Architecture for Software Developers book saved us days, maybe weeks on project development." -- Dong Wei, System Architect for Servers, Hewlett-Packard

About the Author

Walter Triebel is the author of 17 books on microprocessors, digital logic, and memory. His most recent title is Itanium® Architecture for Software Developers. Along with enthusiasm for the technology, he brings to the book over twenty years of experience as an application engineer and educator. He has worked seventeen years for Intel Corporation, currently as a writer-in-residence for Intel Press. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from New York University.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 308 pages
• Publisher: Intel Pr (July 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970284640
• ISBN-13: 978-0970284648
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #273,195 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #28 in Books > Computers & Technology > Hardware > Microprocessors & System Design > Microprocessor Design

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4.0 out of 5 stars a gentler introduction to a subset of the material that is in freely-available voluminous Itanium & IA-64 reference manuals, April 24, 2011

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This review is from: Itanium Architecture for Software Developers (Paperback)

This book is apparently intended for two different audiences: 1) the people who intend to eventually read the Itanium & IA-64 reference manuals that are freely-available as downloads from the Intel website but want a gentler introduction to the big picture at the forest level before examining the bark on each tree in the voluminous reference manuals and 2) the people, such as managers, who want to understand the key highpoints of very-long-instruction-word (VLIW) processors without slogging through thousands of pages in the Itanium & IA-64 reference manuals.

By the way, Intel brands the industry-wide generic term VLIW as EPIC®. In addition to being an introduction to Itanium itself, this book serves as a useful introduction to VLIW as a topic as well to compare & contrast VLIW with RISC and CISC, because (other than a line of DSPs from Texas Instruments) the Itanium line of processors over the past ten years has been one of the few VLIW processors to reach mass production in such large numbers.