Fisher J.A., Faraboschi P., Young C. Embedded Computing. A VLIW Approach to Architecture Compilers and Tools

Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2005. — 686 p.There are two ways to learn more about your country: you can study it directly by traveling around in it or you can study it indirectly by leaving it. The first method yields facts and insights directly in context, and the second by contrast. Our tradition in computer engineering has been to seldom leave our neighborhood. If you want to learn about operating systems, you read an OS book. For multiprocessor systems, you get a book that maps out the MP space. The book you are holding in your hands can serve admirably in that direct sense. If the technology you are working on is associated with VLIWs or “embedded computing,” clearly it is imperative that you read this book.