One of the greatest challenges faced by designers of digital systems is optimizing the communication and interconnection between system components. Interconnect

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This book introduces different interconnection networks applied to different systems. Interconnection networks are used to communicate processing units in a mul

Perlman, a bestselling author and senior consulting engineer for Sun Microsystems, provides insight for building more robust, reliable, secure and manageable ne

The advent of very large scale integrated circuit technology has enabled the construction of very complex and large interconnection networks. By most accounts,