Microcomputers

Technical Committees

Technical Committee on Microprocessors and Microcomputers
The TC on Microprocessors and Microcomputers (TCMM) is involved with the architecture, design, and application of microprocessors and microcomputers. The TC sponsors and facilitates technical activities across the disciplines of computer architectures, programming languages, and operating systems. The TC sponsors the Hot Chips and Hot Interconnects conferences, now in their 9th and 5th years respectively (as of 1997). The TC also acts as guest editor for IEEE Micro on a yearly basis.

Technical Committee on Microprogramming & Microarchitecture
The TC on Microprogramming & Microarchitecture (TCuARCH) addresses all aspects of microarchitecture including but not limited to high performance implementation issues (such as instruction fetch, decode, execution, state update, and memory hierarchy access methodologies), both hardwired and microprogrammed control, software/hardware scheduling, compiler optimization, and instruction-level parallelism. The TC sponsors workshops, tutorials, and conferences, and publishes a newsletter.

Standards Committees

Microprocessor Standards Committee
To create, maintain, and encourage the use of IEEE standards for the engineering of computer systems involving microprocessor and floating-point architectures, buses, interconnects, sensors, microprocessor operating system interfaces, real-time operating systems, programming and object languages, data interchange, cryptographic hardware, and computer environmental specifications.

Magazines

IEEE Micro, a bimonthly publication of the IEEE Computer Society, reaches an international audience of microcomputer and microprocessor designers, system integrators, and users. Readers want to increase their technical knowledge of computers and peripherals; systems, components, and subassemblies; communications, instrumentation, and control equipment; and software.

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Books

Computers and People:Essays from the Profession
This intriguing collection of essays and overviews presents new insights and perspectives into the roles that computers and digital technology have played and could play in society. The thirty-four essays were originally published in the IEEE Computer Society's flagship magazine Computer. The essays are grouped, each with a substantial overview and extensive discussion points, and all written by Neville Holmes, one of the foremost authorities in the field.

The Anatomy of a High-Performance Microprocessor - A Systems Perspective
This work describes in detail the microarchitecture of a high-performance microprocessor, giving an integrated treatment of platform and systems issues relating to the design and implementation of microprocessor-based systems. Unique in content and approach, the accompanying interactive CD-ROM provides multiple books and a wide variety of materials.

Empirical Evaluation Techniques in Computer Vision
The two main motivators in computer vision research are to develop algorithms to solve vision problems and to understand and model the human visual system. This work focuses on developing solutions to vision problems from the computer vision and pattern recognition community's point of view.

External Websites

Microcomputer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Commodore 64 was one of the most popular microcomputers of its era, and is the best selling model of home computer of all time.
A Brief History of the Microprocessor
The following article describes the evolution of the microprocessor which focused on the technology, the companies and the people behind the invention.
Chronology of Personal Computers
Timeline of microcomputers from the development of the microprocessor in the 1960s through to the present day.
Microcomputer | Products | TOSHIBA Semiconductor Company
Microcomputer Lineup.
ChipGeek Features: The Future of Microprocessor Design
ChipGeek Feature on The Future of Microprocessor Design.
Tom's Hardware
An excellent site that offers reviews, independent and well designed tests, and news relating to hardware.