Computers as Components: Principles of Embedded Computing by Marilyn Wolf

By Marilyn Wolf

Computers as elements: rules of Embedded Computing approach layout, 3e, provides crucial wisdom on embedded platforms expertise and strategies. up-to-date for today's embedded structures layout equipment, this variation good points new examples together with electronic sign processing, multimedia, and cyber-physical structures. writer Marilyn Wolf covers the newest processors from Texas tools, ARM, and Microchip know-how plus software program, working platforms, networks, buyer units, and extra.

Like the former variants, this textbook:
> makes use of genuine processors to illustrate either know-how and techniques
> indicates readers tips to follow ideas to genuine layout practice
> Stresses useful basics that may be utilized to evolving applied sciences and is helping readers achieve facility to layout huge, complicated embedded systems

Updates during this version include:
> Description of cyber-physical platforms: actual platforms with built-in computation to provide new capabilities
> Exploration of the PIC and TI OMAP multiprocessors
> High-level representations of platforms utilizing sign circulation graphs
> more desirable fabric on interprocess conversation and buffering in working systems
> layout examples comprise an audio participant, camera, cellphone, and more

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Apprendre Java Et C++ en Parallèle by Jean Bernard Boichat

By Jean Bernard Boichat

Faire d'une pierre deux coups Java et C++ sont deux langages à los angeles syntaxe très proche. Grâce à l'apprentissage de leurs différences, défauts et qualités intrinsèques, vous serez mieux préparé pour concevoir un code beaucoup plus propre, fondé sur une imaginative and prescient élargie de ces deux langages, de leurs possibilités et de leurs limites. remark est structuré ce livre ? L'ouvrage présente et evaluate les thoughts communs aux langages Java et C++ (déclarations de variables, tableaux...), mais reveal également les particularités de chacun. Les chapitres sont organisés selon un niveau de difficulté croissant, avec exercices corrigés à los angeles clé. A qui s'adresse cet ouvrage ? Aux débutants en programmation qui souhaitent apprendre les deux langages les plus demandés dans le monde professionnel Aux développeurs maîtrisant l'un des langages et souhaitant s'initier à l'autre Aux étudiants en informatique (IUT, 2e cycle, écoles d'ingénieurs) Sur le CD-ROM offert avec ce livre JDK 6 MinGW et MSYS (GNU g++ 3.4.5) NetBeans 6.1 .NET Framework 3.5 pink 3.70 Code resource des exemples et exercices du livre Plate-forme requise : computer avec processeur Pentium 233 MHz ou plus - home windows Vista, XP, 2000 ou 2003 - 512 Mo de RAM - 1Go d'espace disque Sur le web site www.editions-eyrolles.com Consultez les mises à jour et compléments Dialoguez avec l'auteur

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Computers, Chess and Long-Range Planning by M. M. Botvinnik (auth.)

By M. M. Botvinnik (auth.)

Mihail Moiseevich Botvinnik is an electric engineer by way of occupation; in the course of global warfare II he headed a high-tension laboratory within the Urals and used to be adorned by means of the USSR for his accomplishments. at this time, he's the top of the alternating-current computer laboratory on the Moscow Institute of strength Engineering. he's additionally a world-renowned chess participant. He used to be born in 1911, and by means of 1935 had turn into a Grandmaster of Soviet chess. In 1948 he received the area chess championship and held the name till 1963 (except for a two-year break). His chess sort has been characterised as deep, aim, severe, and brave. during this ebook, the standard of his considering is printed in his research of the fundamental notion strategies of grasp chess avid gamers, and his aid of those tactics to mathematical shape. This formalization of idea methods is a contribution to technology at 3 degrees: on the quick point, it offers a foundation for a working laptop or computer application that turns out more likely to achieve enjoying chess; on the center point, game-playing courses aid us to check and rationalize the methods of making plans and decision-making; and, on the optimum point, the examine of the brain in motion, as within the online game of chess, results in an figuring out of human suggestion and of the human psyche.

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Apache Solr 3.1 Cookbook by Rafal Kuc

By Rafal Kuc

Over a hundred recipes to find new how one can paintings with Apache's firm seek Server
• enhance the best way you're employed with Apache Solr to make your seek engine swifter and extra effective
• take care of functionality, setup, and configuration difficulties in no time
• notice little-known Solr functionalities and create your personal modules to customise Solr to your company's needs
• a part of Packt's Cookbook sequence; every one bankruptcy covers a unique point of operating with Solr

In Detail

Apache Solr is a quick, scalable, glossy, open resource, and easy-to-use seek engine. It permits you to advance a certified seek engine on your ecommerce website, net program, or again place of work software program. constructing Solr is simple, yet configuring it to get the main from your web site is the tricky bit.

The Solr 3.1 Cookbook will make your daily paintings more straightforward by utilizing real-life examples that assist you care for the commonest difficulties which could come up whereas utilizing the Apache Solr seek engine. Why waste a while looking out the web for recommendations if you happen to may have all of the solutions in a single position?

This cookbook will assist you to get the main from your seek engine. every one bankruptcy covers a special point of operating with Solr from interpreting your textual content info via querying, functionality development, and constructing your personal modules. the sensible recipes might help you to quick remedy universal issues of information research, assist you to use faceting to assemble facts and to hurry up the functionality of Solr. you are going to find out about functionalities that the majority rookies are blind to, similar to sorting effects through a functionality price, highlighting matched phrases, and computing information to make your paintings with Solr effortless and tension unfastened .

This useful consultant indicates you ways to get the main out of Apache Solr 3.1 with recipes that enable you to increase your seek engine's functionality, examine info fast and successfully, and customise the hunt server along with your personal modules.

What you are going to research from this book
• Index facts in several codecs and forms
• Use the Solr management panel to find the main mostly looked for information
• how one can use various information grouping techniques
• increase your Solr deployment performance
• Create and use your individual Apache Solr modules
• Configure your cache to cater for alterations on your data
• Import information utilizing the information Import Handler and delta query
• question Solr to look for words, style effects through varied fields, and seek geographical points
• Create new purposes that use Solr
• lessen the scale of your index for swifter searching

Approach

This e-book is a part of Packt's Cookbook sequence; every one bankruptcy seems at a distinct element of operating with Apache Solr. The recipes take care of universal difficulties of operating with Solr through the use of easy-to-understand, real-life examples. The publication isn't by any means a whole Apache Solr reference and also you should still see it as a assisting hand whilst issues get tough in your trip with Apache Solr.

Who this e-book is written for

Developers who're operating with Apache Solr and wish to know the way to strive against universal difficulties will locate this e-book of serious use. wisdom of Apache Lucene will be an advantage yet isn't required.

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Beyond the C++ Standard Library: An Introduction to Boost by Björn Karlsson

By Björn Karlsson

Introducing the enhance libraries: the subsequent step forward in C++ programming.

Boost takes you some distance past the C++ regular Library, making C++ programming extra based, powerful, and efficient. Now, for the 1st time, a number one strengthen specialist systematically introduces the extensive set of increase libraries and teaches top practices for his or her use.

Writing for intermediate-to-advanced C++ builders, Björn Karlsson in brief outlines all fifty eight strengthen libraries, after which offers entire insurance of 12 libraries you're more likely to locate specifically necessary. Karlsson's issues variety from clever tips and conversions to bins and knowledge constructions, explaining precisely how utilizing every one library can enhance your code. He bargains targeted insurance of higher-order functionality items that assist you to write code that's extra concise, expressive, and readable. He even takes you "behind the scenes" with improve, revealing instruments and strategies for developing your personal regularly occurring libraries.

Coverage includes:
* shrewdpermanent tips that offer computerized lifetime administration of gadgets and simplify source sharing
* constant, best-practice suggestions for acting kind conversions and lexical conversions
* application periods that make programming easier and clearer
* versatile box libraries that remedy universal difficulties now not lined through the C++ normal Library
* robust aid for normal expressions with Boost.Regex
* functionality items outlined on the name website with Boost.Bind and Boost.Lambda
* extra versatile callbacks with Boost.Function
* controlled indications and slots (a.k.a. the Observer trend) with Boost.Signals

The strengthen libraries are proving so precious that lots of them are deliberate for inclusion within the subsequent model of the C++ commonplace Library. Get your head begin now, with past the C++ average Library.

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Windows 7 Device Driver (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology by Ronald D. Reeves

By Ronald D. Reeves

Home windows 7 gadget driving force brings jointly the entire details skilled programmers have to construct quite trustworthy, high-performance home windows 7 drivers. the world over popular driving force improvement professional Ronald D. Reeves exhibits tips to utilize Microsoft’s robust new instruments and types; retailer money and time; and successfully convey good, powerful drivers.

Drawing on his unsurpassed event as either a motive force developer and teacher, Reeves demystifies Kernel and person Mode driving force improvement, home windows motive force origin (WDF) structure, driving force debugging, and lots of different key subject matters. all through, he offers top practices for all elements of the motive force improvement technique, illuminating his insights with confirmed pattern code. find out how to

* Use WDF to lessen improvement time, increase method balance, and improve serviceability

* Take complete good thing about either the consumer Mode motive force Framework (UMDF) and the Kernel Mode driving force Framework (KMDF)

* enforce most sensible practices for designing, constructing, and debugging either person Mode and Kernel Mode Drivers

* deal with I/O requests and queues, self-managed I/O, synchronization, locks, plug-and-play, strength administration, equipment enumeration, and more

* enhance UMDF drivers with COM

* safe Kernel Mode Drivers with secure defaults, parameter validation, counted UNICODE strings, and secure equipment naming techniques

* software and troubleshoot WMI help in Kernel Mode Drivers

* make the most of complex a number of I/O queuing techniques

Whether you’re growing home windows 7 drivers for laboratory gear, communications undefined, or the other gadget or know-how, this e-book can help you construct construction code extra quick and get to marketplace quicker!

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Screenshot by John Darrin

By John Darrin

During this provocative and fast moving novel, an interactive murderer pronounces his executions stay to an keen on-line viewers. The macabre genius in the back of the killings calls himself Screenshot and name callings his goals via giving weird and wonderful names to the outrageous guns he devises. He then invitations the viewers individuals to bid at the correct to "pull the trigger." A reporter who has been manipulated into being Screenshot's spokesman to the area, a feminine cop, and an eccentric scientist with a grudge shape an not going alliance to prevent Screenshot earlier than they're the subsequent sufferers.

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