Electronics engineering Books

Soft robots are more human-friendly than rigid-bodied robots. This is because they are light in weight, compliant in nature, safer during human interaction, and efficient in locomotion. They have good impact resistance and can access confined spaces due...

Many companies are now offering robots that are geared to the casual electronics hobbyist, both in kit form and as fully assembled models

Technology of Quantum Devices offers a multi-disciplinary overview of solid state physics, photonics and semiconductor growth and fabrication.Readers will find up-to-date coverage of compound semiconductors, crystal growth techniques, silicon and...

Surgical robotics is a rapidly evolving field. With roots in academic research, surgical robotic systems are now clinically used across a wide spectrum of surgical procedures. Surgical Robotics: Systems Applications and Visions provides a comprehensive...

The application of quantitative reliability evaluation in electric power sys­ tems has now evolved to the point at which most utilities use these techniques in one or more areas of their planning, design, and operation. Most of...

Formal verification has become one of the most important steps in circuit design. Since circuits can contain several million transistors, verification of such large designs becomes more and more difficult. Pure simulation...

Hardware Design and Petri Nets presents a summary of the state of the art in the applications of Petri nets to designing digital systems and circuits. The area of hardware design has traditionally been a fertile field for ...

Signal Processing for Wireless Communication Systems brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area. The Contributors to this work were selected from leading...

The quality of a telecommunication voice service is largely inftuenced by the quality of the transmission system. Nevertheless, the analysis, synthesis and prediction of quality should take into account its multidimensional...

Switched-Current Signal Processing and A/D Conversion Circuits: Design and Implementation describes the design and implementation of switched-current (SI) circuits with emphasis on signal processing and data-conversion...

For the first time, this up-to-date text combines the main issues of the hardware description language VHDL-AMS aimed at model representation of mixed-signal circuits and systems, characterization methods and tools for the...

Multi-Valued and Universal Binary Neurons deals with two new types of neurons: multi-valued neurons and universal binary neurons. These neurons are based on complex number arithmetic and are hence much more powerful than the...

This consistently written book provides a comprehensive presentation of a multitude of results stemming from the author's as well as various researchers' work in the field. It also covers functional decomposition for...

1 1. 1 Introduction The (signal processing and storage) capacity ofthe human brain enables us to become powerful autonomous beings, but only if our brains operate in conjunction with (at least some of) our senses and muscles...

In this introduction to vision models and their use in image and video processing applications, prominent authors take on an engineering and signal processing approach. It is intended for an engineering audience that wants to...

A critical step in the design of a DSP system is to identify for each of its components an implementation architecture that provides the desired degree of flexibility/programmability and optimises the area-delay-power...

Device and Circuit Cryogenic Operation for Low Temperature Electronics is a first in reviewing the performance and physical mechanisms of advanced devices and circuits at cryogenic temperatures that can be used for many...

A major advantage of a direct digital synthesizer is that its output frequency, phase and amplitude can be precisely and rapidly manipulated under digital processor control. This book was written to find possible applications...

This pioneering text explains how to synthesize digital diagnostic sequences for wire interconnects using boundary-scan, and how to assess the quality of those sequences. It takes a new approach, carefully modelling circuit and...

This excellent reference proposes and develops new strategies, methodologies and tools for designing low-power and low-area CMOS pipelined A/D converters. The task is tackled by following a scientifically-consistent approach...

Design reuse is not just a topic of research but a real industrial necessity in the microelectronic domain and thus driving the competitiveness of relevant areas like for example telecommunication or automotive. Most...

This book describes the theory and design of high-accuracy CMOS smart temperature sensors. The major topic of the work is the realization of a smart temperature sensor that has an accuracy that is so high that it can be applied...

Optimum envelope-constrained filter design is concerned with time-domain synthesis of a filter such that its response to a specific input signal stays within prescribed upper and lower bounds, while minimizing the impact of...

iming, timing, timing! That is the main concern of a digital designer charged with designing a semiconductor chip. What is it, how is it T described, and how does one verify it? The design team of a large digital design may...

Embedded Memory Architecture for Low-Power Application Processor.- Embedded SRAM Design in Nanometer-Scale Technologies.- Ultra Low Voltage SRAM Design.- Embedded DRAM in Nano-scale Technologies.- Embedded Flash Memory.- Embedded Magnetic RAM.- FeRAM.-...

This self-contained book addresses the need for analysis, characterization, estimation, and optimization of the various forms of power dissipation in the presence of process variations of nano-CMOS technologies. The authors...

Principle and Implementation of CMOS Active Inductors&Transformers.- CMOS Active Inductors.- CMOS Active Transformers.- Applications of CMOS Active Inductors and Transformers.- RF Bandpass Filters with Active Inductors.- Transceivers with Active...

The capability of effectively analyzing complex systems is fundamental to the operation, management and planning of power systems. This book offers broad coverage of essential power system concepts and features a complete and...

Designed as the definitive reference on the compilation of the Esterel synchronous reactive real-time language, Compiling Esterel covers all aspects of the language. The book includes a tutorial, a reference manual, formal...

Resource Management Framework for Satellite Communications.- to Satellite Communications and Resource Management.- Activity in Satellite Resource Management.- QoS Requirements For Multimedia Services.- Cross-Layer Approaches for Resource Management.-...

Benchmarks.- ISPD 2005/2006 Placement Benchmarks.- Locality and Utilization in Placement Suboptimality.- Flat Placement Techniques.- DPlace: Anchor Cell-Based Quadratic Placement with Linear Objective.- Kraftwerk: A Fast and Robust Quadratic Placer Using...

Theoretical Approach to Polarization Effects in Semiconductors.- Polarization Induced Effects in GaN-based Heterostructures and Novel Sensors.- Lateral and Vertical Charge Transport in Polar Nitride Heterostructures.- Polarization Effects on Low-Field...

Basic Concepts.- Performance Optimization.- Synchronization.- Channel Estimation.- Peak Power Reduction Techniques.- Synchronization for MIMO OFDM.

Preface. Introduction. 1. IP-Based Networks. 1.1 Introduction. 1.2 Service Models for QoS IP Networks. 1.3 Admission Control in IP Networks. 1.4 Network Admission Control and Resilience. 1.5 Capacity Dimensioning. 1.6 TCP and Packet Level Performance. 1...

Dedication. Preface. Acknowledgment. List of Abbreviations. List of Figures. List of Tables. 1. Introduction. 1. High-Frequency Integrated Analog Filtering. 2. Multirate Switched-Capacitor Circuit Techniques. 3. Sampled-Data Interpolation Techniques. 4...

Constrained Random Simulation.- High Level Verification Languages.- Assertion Languages and Constraints.- Preliminaries.- Constrained Vector Generation.- Constraint Simplification.- More Optimizations.- Constraint Synthesis.- Constraint Diagnosis.-...

In the aftermath of the wave of blackouts that affected US, UK and mainland Europe utilities in 2003 and 2004, renewed attention has been focused on maintaining the highest level of reliability and security in the operation of...

The Need for BFWA.- A Plethora of BFWA Standards.- Unraveling the BFWA Propagation Environment.- Guaranteeing Quality-of-Service.- Different PHYs Serve Different Needs.- How to Realise a Superior Modem?.- Adding a Dimension with Multiple Antennas.-...

Specification of Concurrent Embedded Control Systems.- Using Sequents for Description of Concurrent Digital Systems Behavior.- Formal Logic Design of Reprogrammable Controllers.- Hierarchical Petri Nets for Digital Controller Design.- Analysis and...

A physics book that covers the optical properties of quantum-confined semiconductor nanostructures from both the theoretical and experimental points of view together with technological applications. Topics to be reviewed...

General Information About Measurements.- Measuring Instruments and Their Properties.- Prerequisites for the Analysis of the Inaccuracy of Measurements and for Synthesis of Their Components.- Statistical Methods for Experimental Data Processing.- Direct...

Fundamentals of III-V Semiconductor MOSFETs presents the fundamentals and current status of research of compound semiconductor metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) that are envisioned as a future replacement of silicon in digital...

Microfluidics and Microfabrication discusses the interconnect between microfluidics, microfabrication and the life sciences. Specifically, this includes fundamental aspects of fluid mechanics in micro-scale and nano-scale confinements and...

Microprocessors increasingly control and monitor our most critical systems, including automobiles, airliners, medical systems, transportation grids, and defense systems. The relentless march of semiconductor process technology has given engineers...

Although security is prevalent in PCs, wireless communications and other systems today, it is expected to become increasingly important and widespread in many embedded devices. For some time, typical embedded system designers have been dealing with...

Secrecy Capacity of Independent Parallel Channels.- Obtaining Secrecy through Intentional Uncertainty.- Distributed Secret Sharing over the Gaussian Interference Wiretap Channel.- Cooperative Jamming: The Tale of Friendly Interference for Secrecy.-...

ASIP Design Methodology.- A Short Introduction to Compilers.- Related Work.- Processor Designer.- Code Selector Description Generation.- Results for Semantics based Compiler Generation.- SIMD Optimization.- Predicated Execution.- Assembler Optimizer.-...

Research and development of various parallel mechanism applications in engineering are now being performed more and more actively in every industrial field. Parallel robot based machine tools development is considered a key technology of robot...