Product Description: *ISA System Architecture describes the hardware architecture of ISA (Industry Standard Architecture), providing a clear, concise explanation of an ISA system in detail. The authors provide a comprehensive treatment of the bus including: **-bus cycles *-addressing *-I/O *-RAM, ROM, and cache memory *-cache architectures *-decode and reset logic *-interrupts *-system kernel *-bus mastering *-DMA *-RTC and configuration RAM If you design or test hardware or software that involves ISA, ISA System Architecture is an essential, time-saving tool...read more

Product Description: * Designed as a companion volume to the official hardware design guide for Windows(r) 95, Plug and Play System Architecture provides a detailed hardware and software description of the Plug and Play technology that is integrated into Windows 95 and will soon appear in other operating systems, including Windows NT...read more

Product Description: "The 'must-have' PC architecture reference set." -PC Magazine's "Read Only" column CardBus System Architecture describes 32-bit PC Cards, called CardBus PC Cards, and the hardware and software interfaces required to implement the new CardBus solution...read more

Product Description: A Second Edition of this book is now available "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...read more

Product Description: The FireWire standard makes a host of applications feasible for mainstream PCs by providing a highway for rich digital data streams with transfer rates of up to 400-Mbps. It provides an interface for data intensive peripherals such as digital video cameras, and should match or exceed the port expansion, hot-puggability, and plug and play aspects of USB...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: With USB 2.0, the USB standard for PC peripheral connectivity delivers up to 40 times the speed of USB 1.1 -- plus many other extensions, clarifications, and reliability improvements. Now's the time for professional engineers working with PC hardware and peripherals to master USB 2...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: PCI was originally designed to be used in a wide range of systems from notebooks to high-end servers. There are now a wide range of new buses being developed to replace PCI, which enable cost-savings, performance enhancement, and specialized features...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: “In this monumental new book, Tom Shanley pulls together 15 years of history of Intel’s mainline microprocessors, the most popular and important computer architecture in history. Shanley has a keen eye for the salient facts, and an outstanding sense for how to organize and display the material for easy accessibility by the reader...read more