Computers as Components
Foundations of Embedded Computing, Internet-of-Things (IoT), and Cyber-Physical Systems
- 6th Edition - September 1, 2027
- Latest edition
- Author: Marilyn Wolf
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 4 4 6 4 9 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 4 4 6 5 0 - 4
Computers as Components: Foundations of Embedded Computing, Internet-of-Things (IoT), and Cyber-Physical Systems, Sixth Edition continues to focus on foundational content in… Read more
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Computers as Components: Foundations of Embedded Computing, Internet-of-Things (IoT), and Cyber-Physical Systems, Sixth Edition continues to focus on foundational content in embedded systems technology and design while updating material throughout the book and introducing a new chapter on machine learning and edge intelligence.
• Uses real processors to demonstrate both technology and techniques
• Shows readers how to apply principles to actual design practice
• Stresses necessary fundamentals that can be applied to evolving technologies and helps readers gain facility to design large, complex embedded system
• Covers the design of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices and systems, including applications, devices and communication systems and databases
• Features a robust set of instructor and student resources, including PPT lecture slides, image bank, solutions, labs, and links to the author’s website and YouTube channel
• Shows readers how to apply principles to actual design practice
• Stresses necessary fundamentals that can be applied to evolving technologies and helps readers gain facility to design large, complex embedded system
• Covers the design of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices and systems, including applications, devices and communication systems and databases
• Features a robust set of instructor and student resources, including PPT lecture slides, image bank, solutions, labs, and links to the author’s website and YouTube channel
Undergraduate students in an embedded systems design course
Chapter 1: Embedded computing
Chapter 2: Instruction Sets
Chapter 3: CPUs
Chapter 4: Computing platforms
Chapter 5: Program design and analysis
Chapter 6: Processes and operating systems
Chapter 7: System design techniques
Chapter 8: Internet-of-Things systems
Chapter 9: Cyber-physical systems
Chapter 10: Embedded multiprocessors
Chapter 11: Machine learning and edge intelligence
Chapter 2: Instruction Sets
Chapter 3: CPUs
Chapter 4: Computing platforms
Chapter 5: Program design and analysis
Chapter 6: Processes and operating systems
Chapter 7: System design techniques
Chapter 8: Internet-of-Things systems
Chapter 9: Cyber-physical systems
Chapter 10: Embedded multiprocessors
Chapter 11: Machine learning and edge intelligence
- Edition: 6
- Latest edition
- Published: September 1, 2027
- Language: English
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Marilyn Wolf
Marilyn Wolf is Elmer E. Koch Professor of Engineering and Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. She received her BS, MS, and PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University. She was with AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1984 to 1989, was on the faculty of Princeton University from 1989 to 2007 and was Farmer Distinguished Chair in Embedded Computing Systems and GRA Eminent Scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 2007 to 2019. Her research interests include cyber-physical systems, Internet-of-Things, embedded computing, embedded computer vision, and VLSI systems. She has received the IEEE Computer Society Goode Memorial Award, the ASEE Terman Award, and IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Education Award. She is a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM and a Golden Core member of IEEE Computer Society. Professor Wolf is the author of several successful Morgan Kaufmann textbooks: Computers as Components, Fifth Edition (2022); High-Performance Embedded Computing, Second Edition (2014); The Physics of Computing, First Edition (2016); and Embedded System Interfacing, First Edition (2019).
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA