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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 208 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 257x179x10 mm, kaal: 381 g
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  • Ilmumisaeg: 03-Feb-2006
  • Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • ISBN-10: 0471736171
  • ISBN-13: 9780471736172
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 208 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 257x179x10 mm, kaal: 381 g
  • Sari: Practitioners
  • Ilmumisaeg: 03-Feb-2006
  • Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • ISBN-10: 0471736171
  • ISBN-13: 9780471736172
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Colwell, a consultant with a PhD in computer engineering, co-led the Intel team that conceived Intel's P6 design project that produced the innovative microarchitecture behind its best-selling Pentium chips. He offers insights into the project's goal, phases, personalities, and management "bugs" in the context of the world's largest chip maker's corporate culture. The book includes highlighted bits of wisdom, a P6 primer, and glossary of related terms. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Pentium Chronicles describes the architecture and key decisions that shaped the P6, Intel's most successful chip to date.  As author  Robert Colwell recognizes, success is about learning from others, and Chronicles is filled with stories of ordinary, exceptional people as well as frank assessments of "oops" moments, leaving you with a better understanding of what it takes to create and grow a winning product.

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"...it reads like a novel...The story is chronicled by insider Colwell in a style that commands reader attention...highly recommended." (CHOICE, May 2006) "an anecdotal account of its development from someone who was in on it from the startthere is something there for everyone about life in a large organization." (Cool Tech Reviews, March 6, 2006)

"Such a perfect miscellany ofexperiences finely blended with humor and reality is a sumptuous feast for engineers and project managersmarvelous piece of computer history." (TechBulletin, February 10, 2006)

"This particular book on the genesis of Intel's groundbreaking P6 programme of the early 1990s...gives us some worthwhile pointers...a worthy book, and worth a recommendation..." (TechWorld, February 7, 2006)

"This insightful book promises to become a classic, and the reader is warned that it is hard to put down." (Computing Reviews.com, February 23, 2005)

"the book will particularly appeal to engineers working in the computing industry." (Physics World, February 2006)

Foreword xi
Preface xv
Introduction
1(10)
P6 Project Context
2(3)
Betting on CISC
3(1)
Proliferation Thinking
3(2)
The Gauntlet
5(1)
Developing Big Ideas
5(2)
Defining Success and Failure
6(1)
Senior Wisdom
7(1)
Four Project Phases
7(2)
The Business of Excellence
9(2)
The Concept Phase
11(32)
Of Immediate Concern
11(1)
Success Factors
12(8)
Clear Goals
13(2)
The Right People
15(1)
P6 Senior Leadership
15(1)
Setting the Leadership Tone
16(1)
Managing Mechanics
17(1)
Physical Context Matters
17(1)
The Storage Room Solution
18(1)
Beyond the Whiteboard
19(1)
``Kooshing'' the Talkers
19(1)
A Data-Driven Culture
20(4)
The Right Tool
21(1)
The ``What Would Happen If'' Game
22(1)
DFA Frontiers
23(1)
Performance
24(6)
Benchmark Selection
25(1)
Avoiding Myopic Do-Loops
25(1)
Floating-Point Chickens and Eggs
26(1)
Legacy Code Performance
26(1)
Intelligent Projections
27(1)
All Design Teams Are Not Equal
28(1)
Overpromise or Overdeliver?
28(2)
Customer Visits
30(4)
Loose Lips
30(1)
Memorable Moments
31(1)
Microsoft
31(1)
Novell
31(1)
Compaq
32(1)
Insights from Input
33(1)
Not-So-Secret Instructions
33(1)
Help from the Software World
33(1)
The Truth about Hardware and Software
33(1)
Establishing the Design Team
34(9)
Roles and Responsibilities
35(1)
Presilicon Validation
36(1)
Wizard Problem Solving
37(1)
Making Microcode a Special Case
38(1)
Cubicle Floorplanning
39(1)
Architects, Engineers, and Schedules
40(1)
Coding, Egos, Subterfuge
41(2)
The Refinement Phase
43(36)
Of Immediate Concern
44(1)
Success Factors
45(6)
Handling the Nonquantifiable
45(1)
Managing New Perspectives
46(1)
Planning for Complexity
47(1)
Behavioral Models
48(3)
Managing a Changing POR
51(8)
The Wrong Way to Plan
51(2)
Engineering Change Orders
53(1)
The Origin of Change
53(1)
When, Where, Who
54(1)
Communicating Change
55(1)
Timely Resolution, No Pocket Vetoes
56(1)
The ECO Czar
57(1)
ECO Control and the Project POR
57(2)
The Bridge from Architecture to Design
59(2)
Focus Groups
60(1)
Product Quality
61(14)
Mismanaging Design Errors
62(1)
Make an Example of the Offender
62(1)
Hire Only Geniuses
62(1)
Flog Validation
62(1)
Avoid/Find/Survive
63(1)
Design to Avoid Bugs
63(2)
When Bugs Get In Anyway, Find Them Before Production
65(1)
Identifying Bugs
66(1)
Tracking Bugs
67(2)
Managing Validation
69(2)
Plan to Survive Bugs that Make It to Production
71(1)
A Six-Step Plan for High Product Quality
72(1)
The Design Review
73(1)
How Not to Do a Review
74(1)
When to Do a Review
75(1)
Another One Rides the Bus
75(4)
The Realization Phase
79(36)
Of Immediate Concern
80(1)
Success Factors
81(3)
Balanced Decision Making
81(1)
Documentation and Communication
82(1)
Capturing Unit Decisions
82(1)
Integrating Architects and Design Engineers
83(1)
Performance and Feature Trade-offs
84(5)
(Over-) Optimizing Performance
84(1)
Perfect A; Mediocre B, C, and D
84(1)
The Technical Purity Trap
84(1)
The Unbreakable Computer
85(2)
Performance-Monitoring Facilities
87(1)
Counters and Triggers
87(1)
Protecting the Family Jewels
88(1)
Testability Hooks
88(1)
Gratuitous Innovation Considered Harmful
89(1)
Validation and Model Health
90(3)
A Thankless Job
90(1)
Choosing a Metric
91(1)
Health and the Tapeout Target
92(1)
Metric Doldrums
93(1)
Coordinating with Other Projects
93(5)
Performance Estimation
94(1)
The Overshooting Scheme
94(2)
Psychological Stuff
96(1)
Simulator Wars
96(2)
Project Management
98(17)
Awards, Rewards, and Recognition
98(2)
The Dark Side of Awards
100(3)
Project Management by Grass Cutting
103(2)
Marginal Return from Incremental Heads
105(1)
Project Tracking
106(3)
The Experiment
109(1)
The Mystery of the Unchanging Curve
109(1)
Flexibility Is Required of All
110(2)
The Simplification Effort
112(3)
The Production Phase
115(22)
Of Immediate Concern
117(2)
Functional Correctness
117(1)
Speed Paths
118(1)
Chip Sets and Platforms
118(1)
Success Factors
119(2)
Prioritizing War Room Issues
119(1)
Managing the Microcode Patch Space
120(1)
Product Care and Feeding
121(8)
Test Vectors
121(1)
Performance Surprises
122(2)
Feature Surprises
124(3)
Executive Pedagogy and Shopping Carts
127(2)
Managing to the Next Processor
129(1)
The Windows NT Saga
130(2)
Product Rollout
132(5)
On Stage with Andy Grove
133(1)
How Not to Give Magazine Interviews
133(1)
Speech Training
134(3)
The People Factor
137(18)
Hiring and Firing
138(4)
Rational Recruitment
138(1)
Hiring and the Promotion List
139(2)
Firing
141(1)
Policy Wars
142(8)
Corporate Disincentives
143(2)
The Led Zeppelin Incident
145(1)
Exiting the Exit Bag Check
146(2)
Sailboats and Ditches
148(1)
Orbiting the Bathrooms
149(1)
Management by Objective
150(2)
We Are So Rich, We Must Be Good
152(1)
Burnout
153(2)
Inquiring Minds Like Yours
155(16)
What was Intel thinking with that chip ID tag, which caused such a public uproar?
155(1)
Was the P6 project affected by the Pentium's floating point divider bug?
156(3)
Why did Pentium have a flawed floating point divider, when its predecessor, the i486, did not?
159(1)
How would you respond to the claim that the P6 is built on ideas stolen from Digital Equipment Corp.?
160(1)
What did the P6 team think about Intel's Itanium Processor Family?
161(3)
Is Intel the sweatshop some people say it is?
164(2)
How can I become the chief architect of a company such as Intel?
166(1)
Why did you leave Intel?
167(1)
And In Closing I'd Just Like To Say . . .
168(3)
Bibliography
171(2)
Appendix
173(6)
Out-of-Order, Superscalar Microarchitecture: A Primer
173(2)
Plausibility Checking
175(4)
Glossary 179(6)
Index 185


Robert P. Colwell, PHD, is an independent consultant. He earned his PhD in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1985. Named an Intel Fellow (twenty-seven led Intel's Pentium 4 CPU core development. His other contributions at Intel include coleading the team that conceived Intel's P6 microarchitecture, the core of the company's Pentium II, Pentium III, Celeron, Xeon, and  Centrino product families. He is the author and contributor to many published papers and chapters and is the inventor or co-inventor on more than forty patents.