The Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) interface is a platform bus specification that enables high-performance graphics capabilities, 3-D, and video-over networks as well as on individual PCs. This book provides an overview of the technology, a detailed description of the specification, a discussion of AGP Pro, and a tutorial for mastering AGP.

••PCI EXPRESS is considered to be the most general purpose bus so it should appeal to a wide audience in this arena.•Today's buses are becoming more specialized to meet the needs of the particular system applications, building the need for this book.•Mindshare and their only competitor in this space, Solari, team up in this new book.

Learn all you need to know to engineer reliable, high-performance PCI products with text written in practical and comprehensive prose. The bestselling PCI book for computer engineers now fully updated for PCI Revision 2.2.

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PCI-X is the successor to the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) Bus Specification, the current standard that enables communication between peripheral devices and the computer processor. A major improvement over the older PCI technology, PCI-X enables significantly higher performance with transfer rates of up to 1.06 GB per second. " PCI-X System Architecture " is a detailed and comprehensive guide to the PCI-X technology. It highlights the many changes and improvements from PCI 2.2 to PCI-X, so that you can build on your PCI knowledge to master PCI-X with greater ease. The book discusses the drawbacks of PCI and how PCI-X solves these problems, achieving faster transfer rates. In addition, it presents in-depth information and practical guidance on the PCI-X transaction protocol, device configuration for PCI-X, load tuning, PCI-X bridges, error detection and handling, and electrical issues. You will find specific information on such key topics as: Device types and bus initialization, including Hot-Plug PCI-X initialization Dword and burst commands Bus arbitration, latency rules, and burst transactions Transaction termination Split completion messages 64-bit transactions Bridge and non-bridge configuration registers Load tuning, including adjustable fields and registers, split completion buffers, and adjusting timeslice values PCI-X to PCI-X bridges Handling master abort, attribute phase parity errors, and split read errors Anyone who designs or tests hardware or software that involves the PCI-X bus will find "PCI-X System Architecture" an essential resource for understanding and working with this important technology. "

With nearly 50,000 copies sold since its 1997 release, "Pentium Pro Processor System Architecture" is now updated in a second edition to include the Pentium II processor and MMX technology. The Pentium II processor adds MMX technology, which consists of 57 new instructions designed to enrich and accelerate multimedia and communications.

"This series of books is truly an important part of my library.... They are consistently accurate.... I would recommend them to anyone doing hardware design or support, as well as to any developers who write low-level system code." Paul Tomlinson "Windows Developer's Journal" "Universal Serial Bus System Architecture "provides an in-depth discussion of USB and is based on the 1.0 version of the Universal Serial Bus specification. It focuses on the USB protocol, signaling environment, and electrical specifications, along with the hardware/software interaction required to configure and access USB devices. Although this book does not focus on writing USB device drivers, it does contain useful background information that aids in understanding the USB software environment. Key topics include: differential signaling environment device configuration suspend/resume operations device descriptors device requests (commands) transfer mechanisms USB transaction protocols bus-powered devices self-powered devices host controller designs (UHC and OHC) error detection and handling device class definitions If you design or test hardware or software that involves USB, "Universal Serial Bus System Architecture "is an essential, time-saving tool. 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 explains thoroughly the architecture, features, and operations of systems built using one particular type of chip or hardware specification. MindShare Inc.is one of the leading technical training companies in the computer industry, providing innovative courses for dozens of companies, including Intel, IBM, and Compaq. Don Anderson passes on his wealth of experience in digital electronics and computer design by training engineers, programmers, and technicians for MindShare. 0201461374B04062001