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  • Energy Storage

    by Patrick Stakem ...
    This is a book on energy storage. Most electrical energy is AC, and is used when generated. Direct current is stored in battery, but there is no such things as an AC battery. There are other ways to store the energy. Solar cells only produce electricity during the day, and we might need the energy at night. Hydro power system generate power when there is a sufficient amount of water flow. Nuclear ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Computer Virtualization & the Cloud

    by Patrick Stakem ...
    Series series Computer Architecture
    This book is intended as an introduction to the topics of computer virtualization and the cloud. We will see how the topics come together.The book includes extensive reference and background material. It will not teach you to be an expert in virtualization or cloud technologies. It will teach you to understand and appreciate these topics, and how they fit into the big picture of computing. The ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Apollo's Computers

    by Patrick Stakem ...
    Series series Space
    Apollo was built in the era of “big iron” computer mainframes. The concept of an onboard computer for space missions was radically new. There was only one place in the world that could design the Apollo Guidance Computers, and that was MIT. It took most of the U.S.’s production of integrated circuits, another radical idea replacing individual vacuum tubes, to build the AGC’s. It took 2,000 person ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Personal Robots

    by Patrick Stakem ...
    Series series Robots
    This book is about the Personal Robots from the 1980's that inspired hopes for the future. This was triggered, in part, by the robots of the Star War series. R2D2 was based on the three service droids of the early Science Fiction movie, Silent Running. They were named Huey, Louie, and Dewey. At the same time, personal computers were emerging as affordable and easier to use. The excitement and the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The History of Spacecraft Computers

    from the V-2 to the Space Station

    by Patrick Stakem ...
    Series series Space
    This book documents the development of missile and spacecraft guidance computers from the earliest efforts to the current Space Station and satellite onboard systems. This book developed from the author's presentation at the Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory in 2009 for the Workshop on Flight Software. The second and third editions were expanded with new material and references ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Architecture & Programming of the Intel X86 Architecture

    40th Anniversary Edition

    by Patrick Stakem ...
    Series series Computer Architecture
    This book is an update to an earlier book on x86 computer architecture, hardware and software. The x86 describes not only a line of microprocessor chips dating back to 1978, but also an instruction set architecture (ISA) that the chips implement. The chip families are built by Intel and other manufacturers, and execute the same instructions, but in different ways. The results are the same, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Architecture of the ARM Microprocessors

    a Resource Guide

    by Patrick Stakem ...
    Series series Computer Architecture
    In 1983, the British company Acorn Computers Ltd. was shopping for a new 16-bit processor to replace the 8-bit Mostek 6502 that they were then using. Some say that Acorn was rejected by Intel, others say that Acorn didn’t like either the Intel 80286 or the Motorola MC 68000. In any case, the company decided to develop its own processor called the Acorn RISC Machine, or ARM. The company had been ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Exoplanets

    by Patrick Stakem ...
    Series series Space
    This book covers the topics of the existence of planets around others stars. We think now we are unique in the Universe, but the Universe is very large. This book just touches the surface of this very exciting field. With better telescopes and data processing methods, more planets in our galaxy have been found. Dedicated planet-finding facilities on the ground and in space have been deployed. We ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Architecture of Massively Parallel Microprocessor Systems

    by Patrick Stakem ...
    Series series Computer Architecture
    In the last 11 years, a lot has changed in this field. That's to be expected in a technology that is driven by Moore's Law, where complexity doubles every 18 months or so. So we have a factor of 7 or so, but actually the rate of change is increasing.Where we are today is machines built with multiple cores on one chip, each core being a complete computer. The same communication schemes discussed in ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • 4- and 8-bit Microprocessors

    by Patrick Stakem ...
    Series series Computer Architecture
    There is a brief review of computer architecture, binary math, and digital logic that you can skip, if you are familiar with these topics.The evolution of the 8-bit processors is a history of the advance of semiconductor technology from the first transistors, to the breakthrough of multiple transistors on a chip, the integrated circuit. A lot of this happened when the “Silicon Valley” of northern ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • What’s the Worst that Could Happen?

    Bad Assumptions, Ignorance, Failures, and Screw-ups in Engineering Projects.

    by Patrick Stakem ...
    Series series Computer Architecture
    It can be argued that all failures are human failures. We make errors in judgment, we use the wrong model, we solve the wrong problem, we don't verify our solution. There are, of course, natural disasters. These are not our fault, but it can be argued that we need to foresee these and plan an approach. Could the dinosaurs have foreseen the meteor that created the Gulf of Mexico? Not likely. Could ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Snowden Iron Works

    by Patrick Stakem ...
    Series series History
    This book traces the history and technology of several Irons works in pre-colonial Maryland, starting with the Colony of Maryland. The collected information is the result of a long chain of research by tireless researchers in dingy colonial era archives, and in dismal swamps.It tell the story of Richard Snowden, coming to the Colony of Maryland as an endentured servant, and eventually building a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD