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It is refreshing that nowadays such excellent guides to the jungle of PC architecture are available for hardware and software engineers. This is one of those rare instances where even the cover blurbs back and front are dry and accurate. AGP System Architecture and others of this series are impressive as time-valued rush-to-press technical publishing of the first caliber. The authors, editors, and publisher have not skimped on the printing and production value, nor on the wealth of diagrams, nor on profound discussion of issues, nor even, apparently, on technical review procedures prior to publication. --Jack Woehr, Dr. Dobb's Electronic Review of Computer Books
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Book Description
The Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) interface is a new platform bus specification that enables high performance graphics capabilities-especially 3-D and video-over networks and on individual PCs. Platform independent, AGP is supported by numerous hardware and software vendors, and is now standard on Pentium II computers. Software and hardware engineers working with graphics must have a good understanding of this important technology.
AGP System Architecture provides an overview of the technology, a detailed description of the specification, and a practical tutorial for mastering AGP. Comprehensive and concise, it presents all the information you need to understand and utilize this proliferating technology. In particular, this book focuses on 3-D graphics and video-related issues-the applications most served by AGP.
You will find coverage of the following essential topics.
AGP advantages over PCI graphics for rendering 3-D images
AGP signaling requirements, including electrical AC and DC specifications and AGP driver and receiver characteristics
Signals for AGP-compliant masters and targets
AGP arbitration, with a look at optimization of grant pipelining
AGP transaction requests and ordering rules
AGP and Fast Write transactions in the 1X, 2X, and 4X data transfer modes
AGP hardware environment, including add-in cards, connectors, and the motherboard
AGP-specific configuration registers
This indispensable resource will enable you to utilize AGP tools, design a high quality AGP device and support AGP in software applications.
The PC System Architecture Series is a crisply written and comprehensive set of guides to the most important PC hardware standards. Each title is designed to illustrate the relationship between the software and hardware, and thoroughly explains the architecture, features, and operation of systems built using one particular type of chip or hardware specification.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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