The Physics of Computing - Marilyn Wolf Kartoniert (TB)

The Physics of Computing gives a foundational view of the physical principles underlying computers. Performance power thermal behavior and reliability are all harder and harder to achieve as transistors shrink to nanometer scales. This book describes the physics of computing at all levels of abstraction from single gates to complete computer systems. It can be used as a course for juniors or seniors in computer engineering and electrical engineering and can also be used to teach students in other scientific disciplines important concepts in computing. For electrical engineering the book p rovides the fundamentals of computing that link core concepts to computing. For computer science it provides foundations of key challenges such as power consumption performance and thermal. The book can also be used as a technical reference by professionals.