Hardware Notes

Some Computer Division History History
Real numbers without floating point. History
Thoughts on Divide Semantics
I/O on a Strict Schedule. FireWire! IEEE 1394
Bluetooth
Thoughts on Harvest Memory Bus Scheduling History
Split Cycle Memory History
Streams to and from Memory History
Hack to overcome a class of alias problems for RISC machines.
Reliable systems from unreliable components
Hardware support for Protection History
Thoughts on segregating capabilities History
Notes on the interrupt schemes of various machines History
The term “virtual address”
The Classic Memory Map History
Reserved Address Plan for memory maps.
Maps in general
The Tiny Alice Memory Map
Machines mostly without RAM?
Ambidextrous machines (endian)

• Hardware version of confused deputy
• Hardware determinism for security;
• Impact of Complexity on Security,
• system bus and security
• The Suspicious but Faithful Agent