ARMask.The ARM has six operating modes:
• User (unprivileged mode under which most tasks run)
• FIQ (entered when a high priority (fast) interrupt is raised)
• IRQ (entered when a Low priority (normal) interrupt is raised)
• Supervisor (entered on reset and when a Software Interrupt instruction is
executed)
• Abort (used to handle memory access violations)
• Undef (used to handle undefined instructions)
* ARM Architecture Version 4 adds a seventh mode:
• System (privileged mode using the same registers as user mode)
The Linux Enterprise Cluster explains how to take a number of inexpensive computers with limited resources, place them on a normal computer network, and install free software so that the computers act together like one powerful server. This makes it possible to build a very inexpensive and reliable business system for a small business or a large corporation. The book includes information on how to build a high-availability server pair using the Heartbeat package, how to use the Linux Virtual Server load balancing software, how to configure a reliable printing system in a Linux cluster environment, and how to build a job scheduling system in Linux with no single point of failure.
The book also includes information on high availability techniques that can be used with or without a cluster, making it helpful for System Administrators even if they are not building a cluster. Anyone interested in deploying Linux in an environment where Low cost computer reliability is important will find this book useful.
DirectX not only provides fast access to the hardware and therefore incredibly speedy performance, but it also makes it much easier for hardware developers to produce new devices that work well in the Windows environment. The DirectX APIs take away the necessity of writing your own Low-level, device-specific code to access hardware such as the display adapter and network card, making it much easier for you to write programs that take full advantage of the computer s multimedia capabilities.
Scotia Airlines is a new budget airline operating between Glasgow Airport and the Western
Isles. It operates two 24-seater light passenger aircraft and requires a flight booking system.
Because Scotia offers Low cost air travel, there is a need to treat each flight as single cost centre
and to be able to ascertain, at any moment, the amount of the cash taken for that flight.
Reservations and bookings cannot be made until the flight details have been finalised (flight
number, departure and arrival airports). A seat on a flight is considered booked when payment
as been received for it. When a reservation is confirmed (changed to booked), the passenger
name is checked against the original reservation.
A flight can be in any of the folLowing states:
Available for bookings
Checking in
Boarding
Closed
This example demonstrates how the C8051F06x SMBus interface can communicate
// with a 256 byte I2C Serial EEPROM (Microchip 24LC02B).
// - Interrupt-driven SMBus implementation
// - Only master states defined (no slave or arbitration)
// - Timer4 used by SMBus for SCL Low timeout detection
// - SCL frequency defined by <SMB_FREQUENCY> constant
The second volume in the Write Great Code series supplies the critical information that today s computer science students don t often get from college and university courses: How to carefully choose their high-level language statements to produce efficient code. Write Great Code, Volume 2: Thinking Low-Level, Writing High-Level, teaches software engineers how compilers translate high-level language statements and data structures into machine code. Armed with this knowledge, a software engineer can make an informed choice concerning the use of those high-level structures to help the compiler produce far better machine code--all without having to give up the productivity and portability benefits of using a high-level language
This manual describes Freescale’s IEEE™ 802.15.4 Standard compliant MAC/PHY software. The Freescale 802.15.4 MAC/PHY software is designed for use with the Freescale MC1319x and MC1320x, family of short range, Low power, 2.4 GHz Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM) band transceivers, designed for use with the HCS08 Family of MCUs. The MAC/PHY software also works with the MC1321x family of short range, Low power, 2.4 GHz ISM band transceivers that incorporate a Low power 2.4 GHz radio frequency transceiver and an 8-bit microcontroller into a single LGA package.
Throughout this manual, the term transceiver refers to either the MC1319x, MC1320x, or the internal counterpart inside the MC1321x System in a Package (SiP).
/*
* The internal form of a hash table.
*
* The table is an array indexed by the hash of the key collisions
* are resolved by hanging a linked list of hash entries off each
* element of the array. Although this is a really simple design it
* isn t too bad given that pools have a Low allocation overhead.
*/
split from apache for general usage
This LDPC software is intended as an introduction to LDPC codes computer based simulation. The pseudo-random irregular Low density parity check matrix is based on Radford M. Neal’s programs collection, which can be found in [1]. While Neal’s collection is well documented, in my opinion, C source codes are still overwhelming, especially if you are not knowledgeable in C language. My software is written for MATLAB, which is more readable than C. You may also want to refer to another MATLAB based LDPC source codes in [2], which has different flavor of code-writing style (in fact Arun has error in his log-likelihood decoder).
