Microprocessor cores used for SOC design are the direct descendents of Intel's original 4004 microprocessor. Just as packaged microprocessor ICs vary widely in their attributes, so do microprocessors packaged as IP cores. However, SOC designers still compare and select processor cores the way they previously compared and selected packaged microprocessor ICs. The big problem with this selection method is that it assumes that the laws of the microprocessor universe have remained unchanged for decades. This assumption is no longer valid.

Processor cores for SOC designs can be far more plastic than microprocessor ICs for board-level system designs. Shaping these cores for specific applications produces much better processor efficiency and much lower system clock rates. Together, Tensilica's Xtensa and Diamond processor cores constitute a family of software-compatible microprocessors covering an extremely wide performance range from simple control processors, to DSPs, to 3-way superscalar processors. Yet all of these processors use the same software-development tools so that programmers familiar with one processor in the family can easily switch to another.

This book emphasizes a processor-centric MPSOC (multiple-processor SOC) design style shaped by the realities of the 21st-century and nanometer silicon. It advocates the assignment of tasks to firmware-controlled processors whenever possible to maximize SOC flexibility, cut power dissipation, reduce the size and number of hand-built logic blocks, shrink the associated verification effort, and minimize the overall design risk.

· An essential, no-nonsense guide to the design of 21st-century mega-gate SOCs using nanometer silicon.
· Discusses today's key issues affecting SOC design, based on author's decades of personal experience in developing large digital systems as a design engineer while working at Hewlett-Packard's Desktop Computer Division and at EDA workstation pioneer Cadnetix, and covering such topics as an award-winning technology journalist and editor-in-chief for EDN magazine and the Microprocessor Report.
· Explores conventionally accepted boundaries and perceived limits of processor-based system design and then explodes these artificial constraints through a fresh outlook on and discussion of the special abilities of processor cores designed specifically for SOC design.
· Thorough exploration of the evolution of processors and processor cores used for ASIC and SOC design with a look at where the industry has come from, and where it's going.
· Easy-to-understand explanations of the capabilities of configurable and extensible processor cores through a detailed examination of Tensilica's configurable, extensible Xtensa processor core and six pre-configured Diamond cores.
· The most comprehensive assessment available of the practical aspects of configuring and using multiple processor cores to achieve very difficult and ambitious SOC price, performance, and power design goals.

In the year that World War II began, Albert Einstein sent his famous letter to President Roosevelt regarding the feasibility of a revolutionary uranium bomb. What was considered infeasible at the time was the development of aircraft capable of carrying an atomic device.

This book documents the development and delivery of the Silverplate B-29 bomber, the remarkable airplane with capabilities that surpassed those of known enemy fighters of the time and was employed to release the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945. The basic history of the Silverplate B-29, from conception to successful development, is set forth in the early chapters, which discuss the then secret work of the 509th Composite Group at Wendover Army Air Field, on the Marianas Island of Tinian, and at Roswell Army Air Field. Subsequent chapters discuss the Los Alamos test program, Silverplate B-29 combat operations, the Air Force bases from which the aircraft operated, accidents associated with operations and details of the various classes of atomic bombs carried. Concluding chapters give special attention to the members of the 509th, who were responsible for dropping the bombs and whose efforts brought an end to World War II, provided the backbone of America’s nuclear deterrent force in the years after the war, and opened the Atomic Age. Information available in the seven appendices includes, among other things, a chronology of events surrounding the development of the Silverplate bomber and the atomic bomb, a Silverplate B-29 mission list, and individual Silverplate B-29 histories.

The story of this special bomber is accompanied by many never before published photographs of Silverplate B-29’s and the men who flew them and includes a foreword by Paul W. Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay on the Hiroshima mission.

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Human beings are configured for optimum performance, but often we fail to reach our own rich potential. Consequently our personal resources lie unused and dormant. Successful leaders have always learnt how to make the most of important life skills. Long before the expansion of modern management techniques, leaders shaped our world by the use of personal strengths, the utilisation of personal resources, courage to take risks, and positive mental attitudes. The challenge to all of us is to develop and use our talents and abilities more effectively today than yesterday. During an average working life, many will have several different career moves. Employers will always be looking for personal strengths and resources and first impressions can be vital. If a prospective employee presents with these life skills they know that success will more surely follow. This book looks past the mechanics of training procedures and takes a more philosophical approach to the challenges of those who are called to lead others. It breaks leadership down into bite-sized pieces that will help you cope with the challenges of work, home and community service.

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Title: All glass dash: we install a very cool set of new multifunction gauges that can be configured any way you wish.
Author: Bill Grannis
Publication: Trailer Boats (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2006
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Original publisher: [Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Aviation Research ; London : Civil Aviation Authority, Safety Regulation Group, 2005] OCLC Number: (OCoLC)62170011 Subject: Airplanes -- Seats -- Safety measures. Excerpt: ... CAA Paper 2005 / 03 A Benefit Analysis for Aircraft 16G Dynamic Seats Configured without Enhancements to Head Injury Criteria 4.4.7 Hence, the improvement to the impact related survivability factor results in: • 54 uninjured survivors. ( Minor / No Injuries ) • 24 Serious Injuries, 8 because of the impact, 12 because of the fire, and 4 seriously injured because of the impact and fire. • 22 Fatalities, 12 because of the impact, and 10 because of the fire ( 4 of whom sustained Serious Injuries from the impact ). 4.4.8 It should be noted that the survivability factor improvement resulted in a reduction in impact Fatalities of 8 and impact Injuries of 4. However, the overall situation is as follows: Survivors Serious Injuries Fatalities Prior to survivability factor improvement: 45 25 30 Post survivability factor improvement: 54 24 22 4.5 Analysis of Accidents with Limited Passenger Injury Data 4.5.1 There were limited data available to assess the benefit, based on the injuries sustained, for two of the accidents-those occurring at Bangalore and Strasbourg. It was assessed, from the earlier benefit analysis ( Reference [ 1 ] ) that these accidents would yield significant benefit. Therefore, it was assumed that the proportionate reduction in impact Fatalities and Injuries would be similar to that experienced on other accidents from which there was significant benefit. By reference to Table 2 it may be seen that the total derived benefit exceeded more than one Fatality in nine accidents. Two of these were Bangalore and Strasbourg. The remaining seven accidents may be classified as yielding significant benefit. Six of these accidents, Kegworth being excluded, were used to derive an a...

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Title: Medicare not configured to handle disease management: test projects underway.(Practice Trends)
Author: Joyce Frieden
Publication: Skin & Allergy News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2003
Publisher: International Medical News Group
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