Computers as Components: Principles of Embedded Computing Systems Design (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book was used as a text book at a graduate level class in embedded design at University of St Thomas, Minnesota. I am also a professional embedded engineer (both hardware and software). What this book does the best is to provide a framework for embedded design. There are various examples in the text on the embedded design process via the requirements/specifications/hardware architecture/software architecture/component design/test process.
This has definitely impacted both my understand on a theoretical level as well as my design process at work.
Highly recommended!

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The vast majority of existing computers are embedded in the myriad of intelligent devices and applications-not in desktop machines. We are witnessing the emergence of a new discipline with its own principles, constraints, and design processes.
Computers as Components is the first book to teach this new discipline. It unravels the complexity of these systems and the tools and methods necessary for designing them. Researchers, students, and savvy professionals, schooled in hardware or software, will value the integrated engineering design approach to this fast emerging field. * Demonstrates concepts and techniques using two powerful real-world processors as case studies throughout the book: the ARM processor and the SHARC DSP (digital signal processor).* Illustrates the major concepts of each chapter with real-world design examples such as software modems, telephone answering machines, and video accelerators.* Teaches the basics of UML (Unified Modeling Language) and applies it throughout the text to help you visualize stages in the design process.* Illustrates real-time operating systems using the POSIX real-time extensions and Linux.* Describes performance analysis and optimization of embedded software, including the effects of caches.* Includes two CD-ROMs with evaluation software: One contains the ARM Developer Suite; the other contains VisualDSP for the SHARC DSP family of processors.

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Realidades: Level 1: Student Edition (NATL) Review

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(More customer reviews)I ordered this book through Amazon because it was the best price and they offered the best selection of used books in this category. I received it faster than indicated and it was in even better condition than I expected. I ordered other books as well and the same holds true. I will definitely order again.
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Realidades ©2008
Level 1
Student Edition
Includes an introductory section called Para empezar, and nine thematic chapters.Upon completion of REALIDADES 1, students transition smoothly into REALIDADES 2.

Realidades is a standards-based Spanish curriculum that balances grammar and communication. The program offers technology designed to integrate language and culture to teach and motivate all students.

Middle School Spanish Middle school books specially written for the younger learner, REALIDADES A and B cover the same content per Tema as in REALIDADES 1, but photographs, realia, and activities have been adapted to accommodate the middle school learner. At the end of REALIDADES B, students are ready for a smooth transition into REALIDADES 2.

High School Spanish A standards-based high school curriculum that balances communications and grammar. Written to meet the needs of the diverse learners in today's classroom, REALIDADES uniquely integrates language, culture, and technology to teach and motivate all students. Students completing REALIDADES 3 will be well prepared for placement tests and upper-level study.

Features and Benefits

Language and culture woven togetherRealia, art, photographs, chants, rhymes, and trabalenguas are uniquely woven together in practice or activities throughout each chapter, making it easy to teach language and culture together!
Video at the beginning, middle, and end of chaptersThe REALIDADES Video Program A/B/1 and 2 feature three separate video segments per chapter: the A primera vista language input segments, two or three GramActiva video segments, and the motivating storyline mystery videos ¿Eres tú, Maria?(REALIDADES B/1) and En Busca de la verdad (REALIDADES 2).
Complete chapter review and test preparationEach chapter ends with a summary of vocabulary and grammar, a test preparation page that outlines the chapter test, and an online self-test.
Reteaching and review across levelsREALIDADES offers a unique thematic approach to reteach and review previously taught vocabulary and grammar.The A ver si recuerdas section in REALIDADES 2 and 3 uses word webs, visuals, and charts for point-of-need review of content related to the upcoming theme and chapters.

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Patterns for College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide Review

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(More customer reviews)This book, `Patterns for College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide' edited by Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell, is a book widely used in colleges and universities, as well as advanced high school classes across the nation. It is a very useful text, and I use it when tutoring students in preparation for community college level writing and reading work. It is used at our college in the basic skills reading courses, too.
The book looks at how writers develop their work. The first few chapters look at some of the basic mechanics of writing - planning, writing, editing and revising. It also looks briefly at certain skills needed for writing, such as brainstorming and idea generation, as well as journal writing. There are many exercises included here to give students first-hand experience.
The second section looks at the various types of writing students will be called upon to produce - narrative papers, process papers, cause-and-effect, descriptive works, comparison-and-contrast, classification, definition, and persuasive/argumentative papers. Each chapter keeps a solid focus on the type of work presented, so that students can develop the particular skills; the final chapter in this section looks at combining the patterns, to produce more complex and comprehensive research papers and essays.
There is a thematic listing of articles that shows the breadth of topics covered - family relationships, language, education, business and work, sports, race and culture, gender, nature and the environment, media and society, history and politics, and ethics. Among more than one hundred articles are sixteen pieces written by actual students, so that students can see the model produced by people at their same level of development. Writings from famous people such as Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Flannery O'Connor and Mark Twain also give breadth and interest to the selections included here.
The writing assignments include journal writing, essays of the types modeled in the chapters, collaborative activities, and even an internet assignment. There is a companion website for students to use, and instructors can take advantage of materials provided by the publisher, such transparencies and additional samples.
The appendix has a ten-step process for writing a research paper (one of the more common types of college writing expected of students). The steps include everything from choosing a topic to documenting sources. Avoiding common pitfalls such as plagiarism (intentional and inadvertent) is also covered.

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Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell, best-selling authors with more than twenty-five years' experience teaching college writing, know what works in the classroom. In Patterns for College Writing, they offer a balance of classic and contemporary essays by writers like Sandra Cisneros, Deborah Tannen, E. B.White, and Henry Louis Gates Jr., providing students with exemplary models for their writing--and instructors with excellent, class-tested selections. With extensive headnotes before each reading, abundant apparatus after, and more examples of student writing than any other reader, Patterns has always been an exceptional resource for students. In the tenth edition, a new chapter on editing and proofreading in Part One, "The Writing Process," gives students more help recognizing and correcting errors common in their writing, while Part Two, "Readings for Writers," offers a greater number of informative and argumentative essays, preparing students better than ever for the demands of college writing.

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