Design a high-speed SoC while gaining a holistic view of the FPGA design flow and overcoming its challenges. Purchase of the print or kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF format. Key Features Use development tools to implement and verify an SoC, including ARM CPUs and the FPGA logic Overcome the challenge of time to market by using FPGA SoCs and avoid the prohibitive ASIC NRE cost Understand the integration of custom logic accelerators and the SoC software and build them Book DescriptionModern and complex SoCs can adapt to many demanding system requirements by combining the processing power of ARM processors and the feature-rich Xilinx FPGAs. You'll need to understand many protocols, use a variety of internal and external interfaces, pinpoint the bottlenecks, and define the architecture of an SoC in an FPGA to produce a superior solution in a timely and cost-efficient manner. This book adopts a practical approach to helping you master both the hardware and software design flows, understand key interconnects and interfaces, analyze the system performance and enhance it using the acceleration techniques, and finally build an RTOS-based software application for an advanced SoC design. You'll start with an introduction to the FPGA SoCs technology fundamentals and their associated development design tools. Gradually, the book will guide you through building the SoC hardware and software, starting from the architecture definition to testing on a demo board or a virtual platform. The level of complexity evolves as the book progresses and covers advanced applications such as communications, security, and coherent hardware acceleration. By the end of this book, you'll have learned the concepts underlying FPGA SoCs' advanced features and you'll have constructed a high-speed SoC targeting a high-end FPGA from the ground up. What you will learn Understand SoC FPGAs' main features, advanced buses and interface protocols Develop and verify an SoC hardware platform targeting an FPGA-based SoC Explore and use the main tools for building the SoC hardware and software Build advanced SoCs using hardware acceleration with custom IPs Implement an OS-based software application targeting an FPGA-based SoC Understand the hardware and software integration techniques for SoC FPGAs Use tools to co-debug the SoC software and hardware Gain insights into communication and DSP principles in FPGA-based SoCs Who this book is forThis book is for FPGA and ASIC hardware and firmware developers, IoT engineers, SoC architects, and anyone interested in understanding the process of developing a complex SoC, including all aspects of the hardware design and the associated firmware design. Prior knowledge of digital electronics, and some experience of coding in VHDL or Verilog and C or a similar language suitable for embedded systems will be required for using this book. A general understanding of FPGA and CPU architecture will also be helpful but not mandatory.

Get familiar with all the concepts related to Raspberry Pi and MQTT, build innovative IoT projects, and discover how to scale these projects to the next level Key Features Learn some of the most popular tools used in IoT - Raspberry Pi, MQTT, ESP8266 and more Build exciting projects such as an IoT weather station and a smart switch board Discover the advantages of taking your MQTT broker global Book DescriptionThe future of IoT has the potential to be limitless. Wouldn't it be great if you could add it to your own technological stacks? But where to start? With the basics, of course. In this book, you will start by learning about the most popular hardware and communication protocol, Raspberry Pi and MQTT. You will see how to use them together by setting up your own MQTT server on Raspberry Pi and understand how it works. This book explores MQTT in detail, including the clients and devices that you can connect to your server. You will discover two very popular IoT development boards among project developers: the ESP8266 and ESP32 development boards. Then, you will learn how to build interactive dashboards on your Pi and monitor your client devices. The book also shows you how to build a dashboard using another popular software - Node-RED. You will be able to put your skills to the test by creating two full-scale projects. That's not all: you will also learn how to host your own MQTT server on a virtual cloud service. Finally, you will be guided on how to move forward from here, what technologies to learn, and some project recommendations to polish or test your knowledge. By the end of this book, you will be able to build meaningful projects using Raspberry Pi and MQTT and create dashboards for your projects on Node-RED. What you will learn Configure and use a Raspberry Pi for IoT projects Implement the MQTT communication protocol for projects Understand how to set up the NodeMCU and ESP32 boards as MQTT clients Control a NodeMCU board through a Node-RED dashboard hosted on Raspberry Pi Get LAMP server, Home Assistant, and MariaDB on the Raspberry Pi Set up an online MQTT broker on a cloud service or enterprise service provider platform Build full-scale, end-to-end prototype projects Who this book is forThis book is for students who are interested in IoT and want to build projects using the available developer hardware. Educators who want to introduce a course on IoT into their curriculum, technology enthusiasts, and IoT developers who are just getting started will also benefit from this book. No prior knowledge about the two main topics that the book covers is required - Raspberry Pi and MQTT. A basic understanding of what IoT is will also be useful but not mandatory.

Learn to design and develop safe and reliable software for embedded systems. Explore the internals of device drivers, RTOS, and TEE. Key Features * Identify and overcome challenges in embedded environments * Understand the steps required to increase the security of IoT solutions * Build safety-critical and memory-safe parallel and distributed embedded systems Book Description Embedded systems are self-contained units that have a dedicated purpose within a device. We come across a variety of applications of embedded systems in navigation tools, telecom applications, and networking equipment, to name just a few. Embedded Systems Architecture begins with a bird's eye view of embedded development and how it differs from the other systems that you may be familiar with. You'll first be guided to set up a development environment and then move on to the core system architectural concepts, exploring pragmatic designs, boot-up mechanisms, and memory management. Next, you'll look at the programming interface and device drivers to establish communication via TCP/IP and take measures to increase the security of IoT solutions. Lastly, you'll be introduced to parallel multithreaded applications through the development of a scheduler. By the end of the book, you will have explored various aspects of embedded architecture such as memory management, focusing on a memory-safe approach, multithreading, and the RTOS approach. What you will learn * Participate in the design and definition phase of an embedded product * Get to grips with writing code for ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers * Build an embedded development lab and optimize the workflow * Write memory-safe code * Understand the architecture behind the communication interfaces * Understand the design and development patterns for connected and distributed devices in the IoT * Master multitask parallel execution patterns and real-time operating systems * Learn about Trusted Execution Environment Who This Book Is For If you're a software developer or designer wanting to learn about embedded programming, this is the book for you. You'll also find this book useful if you're a less experienced or a beginner embedded programmer willing to expand your knowledge on embedded systems.

Get to grips with key IoT aspects along with modern trends, architectures, and technologies that support IoT solutions, such as cloud computing, modern app architecture paradigms, and data analytics Key Features Understand the big picture of designing production-grade IoT solutions from an industry expert Get up and running with the development and designing aspects of the Internet of Things Solve business problems specific to your domain using different IoT platforms and technologies Book DescriptionWith the rising demand for and recent enhancements in IoT, a developer with sound knowledge of IoT is the need of the hour. This book will help you design, build, and operate large-scale E2E IoT solutions to transform your business and products, increase revenue, and reduce operational costs. Starting with an overview of how IoT technologies can help you solve your business problems, this book will be a useful guide to helping you implement end-to-end IoT solution architecture. You'll learn to select IoT devices; real-time operating systems; IoT Edge covering Edge location, software, and hardware; and the best IoT connectivity for your IoT solution. As you progress, you'll work with IoT device management, IoT data analytics, IoT platforms, and put these components to work as part of your IoT solution. You'll also be able to build IoT backend cloud from scratch by leveraging the modern app architecture paradigms and cloud-native technologies such as containers and microservices. Finally, you'll discover best practices for different operational excellence pillars, including high availability, resiliency, reliability, security, cost optimization, and high performance, which should be applied for large-scale production-grade IoT solutions. By the end of this IoT book, you'll be confident in designing, building, and operating IoT solutions. What you will learn Understand the detailed anatomy of IoT solutions and explore their building blocks Explore IoT connectivity options and protocols used in designing IoT solutions Understand the value of IoT platforms in building IoT solutions Explore real-time operating systems used in microcontrollers Automate device administration tasks with IoT device management Master different architecture paradigms and decisions in IoT solutions Build and gain insights from IoT analytics solutions Get an overview of IoT solution operational excellence pillars Who this book is forThis book is for E2E solution architects, systems and technical architects, and IoT developers looking to design, build, and operate E2E IoT applications and solutions. Basic knowledge of cloud computing, software engineering, and distributed system design will help you get the most out of this book.

Mit der programmgesteuerten Rechenanlage (Ziffern-Rechenautomat) ist vor etwa zwanzig Jahren ein Maschinentyp auf den Plan getreten, der Leistungen zu voll bringen imstande ist, die bis dahin der menschlichen Geistestatigkeit vorbehalten waren. Zu der Kraft-Maschine, welche menschliche Muskelkraft ersetzt, kam die Informations-Maschine *) hinzu, welche logisch erfaBbare Tatigkeiten der mensch lichen Ratio ausfiihren und somit den Menschen auf einer hoheren, der geistigen, Ebene entlasten kann. 1m Zuge der Entwicklung hat sich die programmgesteuerte Rechenanlage, der Prototyp der InformationsmaschiI'l'2, ein viel groBeres Anwendungsfeld erschlossen, als es durch die Interessen der Mathematiker gekennzeichnet ist. Andere Maschinentypen sind hinzugekommen, auf welche die Bezeichnung Rechen Automat nurmehr bedingt paBt, die aber andererseits Anspruch haben, ebenbiirtig an deren Seite gestellt zu werden. Dabei denkt man zum Beispiel an die tech nischen Modelle zur Beschreibung von Lernvorgangen, an Spezialzweckanlagen zur Datenverarbeitung, Spracheniibersetzung, logischen Beweisfiihrung, zur Aus fiihrung von Strategiespielen usw. In Anbetracht der Vielfalt der Interessen er scheint es nicht unbillig zu fragen, wo, an welcher Stelle im Gebaude der Natur und technischen Wissenschaften wir uns iiberhaupt befinden, ob eine einfache Interpretation des Sachverhalts iiberhaupt moglich ist, die uns ein Zurechtfinden erlaubt."

The Igth century was distinguished by the construction of machines with enormous power. During the last decade rapid progress has been made in the development of a completely different type of machine. These new machines, the electronic computers, are not built to generate power or to do mechanical work, but to perform logical operations and ca1culations. This new concept will have a profound influence on engineering, science, ami economy. In fact, the first effects of this development are already taking shape today. It is the purpose 01 this book to give a survey of the basic principles and applications of computers for the benefit of those who hitherto did not work with them, but who might have use for them in the future. The rapid progress of the engineering science has, naturally, led to a situation in which the practicing scientist and engineer cannot keep abreast of the progress in neighboring fields. The chapters of this book were prepared by distinguished experts in the field of computers for the non-expert who does not intend to become an expert, but W}: l0 wants Jo acquire a general understanding of the problems and solutions which he needs to effectively perform the work in his proper field. We address this book to the engineers and scientists who want to know the performance of computers, as weH as to the managers who are rnainly concerned with their econornic aspect.

Leverage the latest parallel and concurrency features in .NET 6 when building your next application and explore the benefits and challenges of asynchrony, parallelism, and concurrency in .NET via practical examples Key Features Learn to implement parallel programming and handle concurrency in .NET efficiently Switch threads while debugging and learn how to monitor specific threads in Visual Studio Discover how to cancel tasks with callbacks, by polling, or by using a task with wait handles Book Description.NET has included managed threading capabilities since the beginning, but early techniques had inherent risks: memory leaks, thread synchronization issues, and deadlocks. This book will help you avoid those pitfalls and leverage the modern constructs available in .NET 6 and C# 10, while providing recommendations on patterns and best practices for parallelism and concurrency. Parallel, concurrent, and asynchronous programming are part of every .NET application today, and it becomes imperative for modern developers to understand how to effectively use these techniques. This book will teach intermediate-level .NET developers how to make their applications faster and more responsive with parallel programming and concurrency in .NET and C# with practical examples. The book starts with the essentials of multi-threaded .NET development and explores how the language and framework constructs have evolved along with .NET. You will later get to grips with the different options available today in .NET 6, followed by insights into best practices, debugging, and unit testing. By the end of this book, you will have a deep understanding of why, when, and how to employ parallelism and concurrency in any .NET application. What you will learn Prevent deadlocks and race conditions with managed threading Update Windows app UIs without causing exceptions Explore best practices for introducing asynchronous constructs to existing code Avoid pitfalls when introducing parallelism to your code Implement the producer-consumer pattern with Dataflow blocks Enforce data sorting when processing data in parallel and safely merge data from multiple sources Use concurrent collections that help synchronize data across threads Debug an everyday parallel app with the Parallel Stacks and Parallel Tasks windows Who this book is forThis book is for beginner to intermediate-level .NET developers who want to employ the latest parallel and concurrency features in .NET when building their applications. Readers should have a solid understanding of the C# language and any version of the .NET Framework or .NET Core.

This book is about the company culture that helped drive Arm Limited's spectacular growth to become the world's leading semiconductor Intellectual Property (IP) company. Its extremely power-efficient processor technology has been licensed to hundreds of semiconductor chip manufacturers and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). Arm is still largely unknown to the broader public, yet Arm's technology is nearly ubiquitous and has been a foundational building block of the global rise of the smartphone. Arm-based microprocessors power over 95% of the world's mobile phones. However, this book is not about technology. It's about how a company grew from being a small start-up in Cambridge, UK with 12 people and a GBP1.75m cash investment to a global organization with over 5,000 employees in over 50 countries and more than $1.5bn revenue in 2016 when SoftBank acquired it for $32bn. Arm Limited was founded as Advanced RISC Machines in November 1990, a joint venture between a British computer manufacturer, Acorn Computers Limited and its much larger US competitor, Apple Computers Inc. The purpose of the new venture was to develop and proliferate the uniquely power-efficient and high-performance RISC-based microprocessor technology that had been developed several years earlier by Acorn. Using first-hand interviews with founders and the author's knowledge, this book charts some of the key people involved in the birth of the technology and the company Advanced RISC Machines. It considers how their behaviors and decisions led to the creation of the licensing business model and the strategy that underpinned Arm's later success. This book reveals some of the layers that help explain how the combination of culture, strategy and execution built the world's leading semiconductor IP company. It provides insight into ten essential ingredients of Arm's success, including the company's unique proposition, how the early business model and strategy were formed, the creation and evolution of the winning culture, the ecosystem of shared success and how Arm stayed unified throughout a period of extraordinary growth. The purpose of the book is to help readers create a culture of inclusiveness, collaboration and innovation within their own organizations. The book provides examples from Arm's history which should provide inspiration and guidance for making the necessary changes to enable a winning culture. Additional details of interest to history lovers include the stories behind the BBC Microcomputer prototype, the Acorn RISC Machine microprocessor development, Advanced RISC Machines' creation, the partnership-focused licensing business model's development, the nearly lost design-win at Nokia for their new GSM mobile, the 20+ billion selling Cortex (R)-M product that almost didn't happen and the battle for smartphones and tablets with Intel. www.culturewon.com

Protect your cloud, virtual, and on-premises environments by implementing Veeam's powerful backup and replication technology Key Features Gain in-depth knowledge of CDP and hardened repositories that you can use in your virtual environment Explore Veeam's monitoring and reporting utility - Veeam ONE - along with Linux proxy enhancements Work with the new Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator (Orchestrator) for testing failovers and backups Book DescriptionVeeam is one of the leading modern data protection solutions, making it a necessary skill for anyone responsible for securing virtual environments. This revised second edition of Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication is updated to cover Veeam version 11. The book guides you through implementing modern data protection solutions for your cloud and virtual infrastructure with Veeam, all while helping you master advanced concepts such as Continuous Data Protection (CDP), extended object storage support, Veeam ONE enhancements, and Orchestrator. Starting with Veeam essentials, including installation, best practices, and optimizations for Veeam Backup & Replication, you'll get to grips with the 3-2-1-1-0 rule to safeguard data. You'll understand how to set up a backup server, proxies, repositories, and more and then advance to cover a powerful feature of Veeam 11 - CDP. As you progress, you'll learn about immutability (also known as hardened repositories) and discover the best practices for creating them. Finally, you'll explore the new proxy option available in Linux and become well-versed with advanced topics such as extended object storage support, Veeam ONE enhancements, and Orchestrator. By the end of this Veeam book, you'll be able to implement Veeam Backup & Replication for securing your environment and enabling disaster recovery. What you will learn Discover the advanced concepts of Veeam Backup & Replication 11 Master application optimization based on Veeam best practices Get to grips with configuring CDP and working with repositories and proxies Explore ways to protect your backups with immutable hardened repositories Understand the enhancements to backups, instant recovery, and Linux proxies Explore Veeam ONE enhancements Become well-versed in using Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator Who this book is forThis Veeam backup book is for IT professionals who have intermediate to advanced-level knowledge of virtualization as well as backups and backup applications. Anyone who needs a reference guide for learning the advanced features of Veeam Backup & Replication and how they are used, including best practices and optimizations, will also find this book useful.

Make the most of OTS systems in operator training and engineering Key Features Learn OTS project delivery best practices from the author's 30 years of experience Explore use cases to understand how your OTS systems can maximize ROI for users Discover how to best develop OTS training models for developers and users Book DescriptionOperator training simulators in the process industry have been around since the 1970s, but you may not find a book that documents the development of these systems and the standard best practices. The Operator Training Simulator Handbook covers best practices for OTS engineering and OTS training development and delivery, starting from the basic the jargon and the different types of OTS systems. It will take you through the best approaches to project specification as well as building, maintenance, planning, and delivering these systems by sharing real-life experiences and dos and don'ts. As you advance, you'll uncover the various challenges in the planning and delivery of operator training models and understand how to address those by working through real-world projects. This book helps in specifying the best fit for purpose, choosing a cost-effective system when acquiring an OTS. You'll also learn how you can turn your OTS projects into digital twins before finally learning all about documentation in a typical OTS project, covering the sample structure that you can use as a starting point in your projects. By the end of the book, you'll have learned best practices for developing operator training simulator systems and have a reference guide to overcome common challenges. What you will learn Become familiar with the OTS jargon to set a base for understanding OTS aspects Implement training planning methods that have been tried and tested in the industry for many years Get to grips with writing well-planned documentation for your OTS project Review new model suggestions to maximize benefits of the OTS systems and the actual ICSS control systems to maximize ROI for users Understand Cloud OTS systems as a new way to address some of the common issues that developers and users face Create digital twins of your OTS projects Who this book is forThis book is for suppliers who build and deliver OTS systems, OTS buyers, or companies looking to invest in these systems. Anyone with an interest in OTS systems, including university students or graduates who will work on these systems, will find this book useful. Basic knowledge of either OTS systems, ICSS control systems, or process engineering will help you grasp the concepts covered in this book.

Develop the skills you need to design and build a reliable, cost-effective cabling infrastructure Fully updated for the growing demand of fiber optics for large-scale communications networks and telecommunication standards, this new edition is organized into two parts. Part I covers LAN Networks and Cabling Systems offers comprehensive coverage on current cabling methodologies and is updated to the latest industry standards. Part II addresses Fiber-Optic Cabling and Components probes deeper into fiber optics, and can be used to prepare for the Fiber Optics Installer (FOI) and/or Fiber Optics Technician (FOT) certifications, two of the Electronic Technician's Association's leading certifications. * Explains why cutting corners is a bad idea * Walks you through the obstacles to high-speed data transfer * Encourages you to follow the golden rules of cabling This new edition is the only book you need for current cabling methodologies and standards.