Courses in Computer Architectures are increasingly becoming restricted to Electronics and Computer Engineering degrees rather than Computer Science degrees, as Computer Science and Software Engineering expands and student demand increasingly favours software rather than hardware aspects. As a result, a declining proportion of Computing students understand the relationships between software stru...

Charging computer scientists to develop the science needed best achieve performance and cost goals of accelerator-level parallelism hardware software.

A major obstacle to the practical application of advanced techniques for process identification is lack of suitable hardware. By its very nature an identification computer must be able to store and adjust large numbers of variable parameters, and to use these for purposes of prediction and control. Conventional analog and digital computers both have disadvantages in this application, and there ...

Developing usable and robust mixed reality systems requires unique human–computer interaction techniques and customized hardware systems. The design of the hardware is directed by the requirements of the rich 3D interactions that can be performed using immersive mobile MR systems. Geometry modeling and capture, navigational annotations, visualizations, and training simulations are all enhanced ...

hen early computer systems were being developed, hardware was designed first and software written specifically for that hardware followed. Each system was essentially handcrafted with its own instruction set, and software was developed for that specific instruction set. This included operating system software, assemblers (later compilers), and application programs. With a small user community, ...

A hardware/software trade-off is the establishment of the division of responsibility for performing system functions between the software, firmware and hardware. This is part and parcel of the fundamental process of defining computer architecture. It begins the day a computer is conceived and may be carried on by an ever widening group of individuals until the last computer of a given model is ...

Recent developments in the design and manufacture of microcomputers together with improved simulation techniques make it possible to achieve the speed and accuracy required for the dynamic simulation of power systems in real time. This paper presents some experimental results and outlines new ideas on hardware architecture, mathematical algorithms and software development for this purpose. The ...

| An in-depth analysis of the 80x86 processor families identi es architectural properties that may have unexpected, and undesirable, results in secure computer systems. In addition, reported implementation errors in some processor versions render them undesirable for secure systems because of potential security and reliability problems. In this paper, we discuss the imbalance in scrutiny for ha...