Computer-aided design (CAD) Books

Optimization Concepts and Computational Methods.- Noncooperative Decision Making in Hierarchical Organizations.- Cooperative Decision Making in Hierarchical Organizations.- Some applications.

1. Introduction.- 2. Sigma-Delta DCs: Basic Concepts, Topologies and State of the Art.- 3. New Sigma-Delta Cascade Modulators for the Next Generation of Wireless Telecom.- 4. A 130-nm CMOS Reconfigurable 2-1-1 Cascade SC Sigma-Delta M for GSM/BT/UMTS.-...

Codesign for Real-Time Video Applications describes a modern design approach for embedded systems. It combines the design of hardware, software, and algorithms. Traditionally, these design domains are treated separately to...

In the early days of digital design, we were concerned with the logical correctness of circuits. We knew that if we slowed down the clock signal sufficiently, the circuit would function correctly. With improvements in the...

High Speed CMOS Design Styles is written for the graduate-level student or practicing engineer who is primarily interested in circuit design. It is intended to provide practical reference, or `horse-sense', to mechanisms...

Practical Synthesis of High-Performance Analog Circuits presents a technique for automating the design of analog circuits. Market competition and the astounding pace of technological innovation exert tremendous pressure on...

"System level testing is becoming increasingly important. It is driven by the incessant march of complexity ... which is forcing us to renew our thinking on the processes and procedures that we apply to test and diagnosis of...

Logic Synthesis for Low Power VLSI Designs presents a systematic and comprehensive treatment of power modeling and optimization at the logic level. More precisely, this book provides a detailed presentation of methodologies,...

Designed as a useful, non-intimidating companion covering both management and technical issues, this is a book that no A/E firm should be without. It covers a wide range of topics pertaining to CAD, from CAD management to...

Switching Theory for Logic Synthesis covers the basic topics of switching theory and logic synthesis in fourteen chapters. Chapters 1 through 5 provide the mathematical foundation. Chapters 6 through 8 include an introduction...

Oversampling techniques based on sigma-delta modulation are widely used to implement the analog/digital interfaces in CMOS VLSI technologies. This approach is relatively insensitive to imperfections in the manufacturing...

Behavioral Synthesis: A Practical Guide to High-Level Design includes details on new material and new interpretations of old material with an emphasis on practical information. The intended audience is the ASIC (or high-end...

For the near future, the recent predictions and roadmaps of silicon semiconductor technology all agree that the number of transistors on a chip will keep growing exponentially according to Moore's Law, pushing technology...

This book presents an updated selection of the most representative contributions to the 2nd and 3rd IEEE Workshops on Signal Propagation on Interconnects (SPI) which were held in Travemtinde (Baltic See Side), Germany, May...

Some twenty years have elapsed since the first attempts at planning were made by researchers in artificial intelligence. These early programs concentrated on the development of plans for the solution of puzzles or toy problems,...

It is a great honor to provide a few words of introduction for Dr. Georges Gielen's and Prof. Willy Sansen's book "Symbolic analysis for automated design of analog integrated circuits". The symbolic analysis method presented in...

Research on high-level synthesis started over twenty years ago, but lower-level tools were not available to seriously support the insertion of high-level synthesis into the mainstream design methodology. Since then,...

Over the past decade there has been a dramatic change in the role played by design automation for electronic systems. Ten years ago, integrated circuit (IC) designers were content to use the computer for circuit, logic, and...

Integrated circuit technology is widely used for the full integration of electronic systems. In general, these systems are realized using digital techniques implemented in CMOS technology. The low power dissipation, high...

Manufacturing industry has been one of the key drivers for recent rapid global economic development. Globalisation of manufacturing industries due to distributed design and labour advantage leads to a drive and thirst for technological advancements and...

Recent rapid globalisation of manufacturing industries leads to a drive and thirst for rapid advancements in technological development and expertise in the fields of advanced design and manufacturing, especially at their interfaces. This development...

With the increasing complexity and dynamism in today's product design and manufacturing, more optimal, robust and practical approaches and systems are needed to support product design and manufacturing activities. Multi-objective Evolutionary...

The initial motivator for the development of DRM, a Design Research Methodology, and the subsequent writing of this book was our frustration about the lack of a common terminology, benchmarked research methods, and above all, a common research...

Part I: Geometric AlgebraNew Tools for Computational Geometry and Rejuvenation of Screw TheoryDavid HestenesTutorial: Structure Preserving Representation of Euclidean Motions through Conformal Geometric AlgebraLeo DorstEngineering Graphics in Geometric...

The Cambridge Workshops on Universal Access and Assistive Technology (CWUAAT) are a series of workshops held at a Cambridge University College every two years. The workshop theme: "Designing inclusion for real-world applications" refers to the emerging...

1. Transformers 2. Conventional Transformer Design 3. Numerical Analysis 4. Classification and Forecasting 5. Optimization 6. Evaluation of Transformer Technical Characteristics 7. Transformer Design Optimization 8. Transformer Selection

Dimensional metrology is an essential part of modern manufacturing technologies, but the basic theories and measurement methods are no longer sufficient for today's digitized systems. The information exchange between the...

Simulation and Analysis of Bio-Molecular Circuits.- Introduction to Chemical Kinetics.- Computer Science Models to Describe Bio-Molecular Circuits.- Limitation of Current Modeling Approaches.-Abstraction in System Design; Abstraction Hierarchies and...

Chapter 3 Specifying RTL Properties 61 3. 1 Definitions and concepts 62 62 3. 1. 1 Property 3. 1. 2 Events 65 3. 2 Property classification 65 Safety versus liveness 66 3. 2. 1 3. 2. 2 Constraint versus assertion 67 3. 2. 3...

According to market analysts, the market for consumer electronics will con­ tinue to grow at a rate higher than that of electronic systems in general. The consumer market can be characterized by rapidly growing complexities of...

Embedded systems encompass a variety of hardware and software components which perform specific functions in host systems, for example, satellites, washing machines, hand-held telephones and automobiles. Embedded systems...

Formal Design Theory (PDT) is a mathematical theory of design. The main goal of PDT is to develop a domain independent core model of the design process. The book focuses the reader's attention on the process by which ideas...

Design Verification Challenges.- Design Verification Challenges.- Background.- Basic Infrastructure.- Efficient Boolean Representation.- Hybrid DPLL-Style SAT Solver.- Falsification.- SAT-Based Bounded Model Checking.- Distributed SAT-Based BMC.-...

Synthesis and Optimization of DSP Algorithms describes approaches taken to synthesising structural hardware descriptions of digital circuits from high-level descriptions of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) algorithms. The book...

Practical Problems in VLSI Physical Design Automation contains problems and solutions related to various well-known algorithms used in VLSI physical design automation. Dr. Lim believes that the best way to learn new...

In today's rapidly evolving corporate landscape, organizations are constantly seeking innovative ways to enhance employee performance and productivity. One powerful tool that has gained immense popularity is corporate instructional design. This...

Este livro apresenta um sistema e um conjunto de ferramentas obtidos como resultados de um projeto de pesquisa que abordou um tema relevante e emergente na área de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, ainda não consolidado no contexto da pós-graduação brasileira: a...

A step-by-step tutorial on Autodesk Inventor basicsAutodesk Inventor is used by design professionals for 3D modeling, generating 2D drawings, finite element analysis, mold design, and other purposes. This tutorial is aimed at novice users of Inventor and...

Read this book and you will learn how to:1.     use the main principles of professionally looking designs2.     create a composition and use visual weight, balance, and flow, in order to emphasize your...

Create beautiful custom materials and leverage powerful extensions for efficient modelingKey Features:Understand how to get the most out of SketchUp's powerful native tools with key images printed in colorCustomize and transform your workspace for...

Learn 2D drawing and 3D modeling from scratch using AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT 2023 and become a CAD professionalKey Features:Learn techniques for making, modifying, and managing AutoCAD 2D and 3D drawingsUnderstand how to use reusable and named objects like...

The Autodesk CFD 2023 Black Book, is New and updated 3rd edition of our series on Autodesk CFD. The book is targeted for beginners of Autodesk CFD. This book covers the basic equations and terms of Fluid Dynamics theory. The book covers all the major...

This book deals with energy delivery challenges of the power processing unit of modern computer microprocessors. It describes in detail the consequences of current trends in miniaturization and clock frequency increase, upon the power delivery unit,...

This book presents a new set of embedded system design techniques called multidimensional data flow, which combine the various benefits offered by existing methodologies such as block-based system design, high-level simulation,...

Automatic Performance Tuning is a new software paradigm which enables software to be high performance in any computing environment. Its methodologies have been developed over the past decade, and it is now rapidly growing in terms of its scope and...

The purpose of this book is to evaluate strategies for future system design in multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSoC) architectures. Both hardware design and integration of new development tools will be discussed. Novel trends...