Product Description

• ISA System Architecture describes the hardware architecture of ISA (Industry Standard Architecture), providing a clear, concise explanation of an ISA system in detail. The authors provide a comprehensive treatment of the bus including:
• -bus cycles
• -addressing
• -I/O
• -RAM, ROM, and cache memory
• -cache architectures
• -decode and reset logic
• -interrupts
• -system kernel
• -bus mastering
• -DMA
• -RTC and configuration RAM

If you design or test hardware or software that involves ISA, ISA System Architecture is an essential, time-saving tool.

The PC System Architecture Series is a crisply written and comprehensive set of guides to the most important PC hardware standards. Each title explains from a programmer's perspective the architecture, features, and operations of systems built using one particular type of chip or hardware specification.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #158859 in Books
• Published on: 1995-05-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 544 pages

From the Back Cover

"An invaluable tool and reference on ISA architecture and time reading it is time well spent. You might just end up wondering how you ever got along without it!"

-David Greenberg, Dell Computer Corporation

ISA System Architecture describes the hardware architecture of ISA (Industry Standard Architecture), providing a clear, concise explanation of an ISA system in detail. The authors provide a comprehensive treatment of the bus including:

• bus cycles
• addressing
• I/O
• RAM, ROM, and cache memory
• cache architectures
• decode and reset logic
• interrupts
• system kernel
• bus mastering
• DMA
• RTC and configuration RAM

If you design or test hardware or software that involves ISA, ISA System Architecture is an essential, time-saving tool.

The PC System Architecture Series is a crisply written and comprehensive set of guides to the most important PC hardware standards. Each title explains from a programmer's perspective the architecture, features, and operations of systems built using one particular type of chip or hardware specification.

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About the Author

MindShare, Inc. is one of the leading technical training companies in the hardware industry, providing innovative courses for dozens of companies, including Intel, IBM, and Compaq.

Don Anderson is the author of many MindShare books. He passes on his wealth of experience in digital electronics and computer design by training engineers, programmers, and technicians for MindShare.

Tom Shanley, president of MindShare, Inc., is one of the world's foremost authorities on computer system architecture. In the course of his career, he has trained thousands of engineers in hardware and software design.

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Customer Reviews

So-So reference
This book is good for people who do not want to delve into the hardware level very much but still want a summary overview of how the ISA bus interacts with different components on a PC. I bought the book thinking it would present more hardware solutions on interfacing but was sorely dissapointed in the lack of real world examples. It is a so-so refrence book with enough good info for me to want to keep it.

Excellent, in-depth coverage of the ISA bus structure.
This book is incredible; I was struck with astonishment at the depth of its technical coverage. Everything is here. Everything you could ever need to know about ISA. Although highly detailed, it approaches each topic with grace and smooth transition from the previous topic. Each term and concept is explained prior to it being used. Each topic is build upon previous discussions. This book takes the willing reader by the hand, and walks him/her through all of the chapters. In the end, you'll feel like a real ISA authority. Although, this book is well written and consists of easy transitions from chapter to chapter, it is not for the timid. The authors hold nothing back. Everything is here.

Very good book for a basic introduction to the PC's ISA Bus.
On the whole I found this book very informative, and a good starting point for anyone interested in understanding the ISA bus system and memory, I/O interaction.

I feel that I will need to follow up now with further technical documentation to successfully design the custom I/O cards I require.

Although I very much enjoyed the book, I found that at times, it was presented in terms too simplistic for the majority of the engineering community. Areas that could have been eliminated are, (AND, OR, NOT) logic interpretations in every chapter and the duplication of efforts in describing the 8086 to the 80286 to the 80386, etc.

Things that I did feel useful are the flow charts, timing diagrams, and block descriptions of each of the larger logic segments.

William Kamienik Pittsburgh, PA.