Books: October 2004 Archives

My supervisor has recommended Furbers's book for ARM development its called ARM System-on-chip Architecture

The reviews look good as the book covers the following

- presents and discusses the major issues of system-on-chip design, including memory hierarchy, caches, memory management, on-chip buses, on-chip debug and production test

- provides an overview of the ARM processor family, enabling the reader to decide which ARM is best for the job in hand

- describes the ARM and Thumb programming models, enabling the designer to begin to develop applications

- covers all the latest ARM products and developments, including StrongARM, the ARM9 and ARM10 series of cores, and the ARM-based SoC components at the heart of Ericsson's Bluetooth technology, the Psion Series 5 PDA and Samsung's SGH2400 GSM handset

- includes details on the AMULET asynchronous ARM cores and the AMULET3H asynchronous SoC subsystem

I have just finished reading Terry Pratchetts latest book Going Postal (Discworld S.). I am an avid fan of the disc world series and his latest book is well up to the standard of the previous books. I just hope he can get the chandeliers back....

Here's a Synopsis
Moist von Lipwig was a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet.It was a tough decision. But he's got to see that the mail gets though, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers Friendly and Benevolent Society, the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company, and a midnight killer. Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice, too.Maybe it'll take a criminal to succeed where honest men have failed, or maybe it's a death sentence either way.Or perhaps there's a shot at redemption in the mad world of the mail, waiting for a man who's prepared to push the envelope...