May 2014
Intermediate to advanced
888 pages
23h 16m
English
book
The x86 Microprocessors: 8086 to Pentium, Multicores, Atom and the 8051 Microcontroller, 2nd Edition
by Lyla B. Das
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Multiprocessor Configurations
IN THIS CHAPTER, YOU WILL LEARN
- The principles and problems of multiprocessing.
- The different types of multiprocessing systems.
- The way 8086 handles multiprocessing.
- How the 8086 operates in a coprocessor configuration.
- How the 8086 works in conjunction with an I/O processor.
- The bus arbitration schemes used in loosely coupled systems.
- The use of the bus arbiter 8289 for bus arbitration.
- The relevance of IEEE 754 format for real numbers.
- Conversion from IEEE 754 number format to decimal numbers and vice versa.
- The architecture of the 8087 arithmetic coprocessor.
- To write programs using 8087 instructions.
Introduction
What is multiprocessing?
Multiprocessing is a term used to indicate that the system contains ...
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