Computer-aided design (CAD)

Models in system design follow the general tendency in electronics in terms of size, complexity and difficulty of maintenance.

In system design, generation of high-level abstract models that can be closely associated with evolving lower-level models provides designers with the ability to incrementally `test' an evolving design against a model of a specification.

Current practice dictates the separation of the hardware and software development paths early in the design cycle.

Our purpose in writing this book was two-fold.

This book describes a new type of computer aided VLSI design tool, called a VLSI System Planning, that is meant to aid designers dur- ing the early, or conceptual, state of design.

From the Foreword.

With the rapid growth of bandwidth demand from network users and the advances in optical technologies, optical networks with multiterabits- per-second capacity has received significant interest from both researchers and practitioners.

Wireless networking enables two or more computers to communicate using standard network protocols without network cables.

This book is a collection of articles studying various Steiner tree prob- lems with applications in industries, such as the design of electronic cir- cuits, computer networking, telecommunication, and perfect phylogeny.

Machine Vision technology is becoming an indispensible part of the manufacturing industry.

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With the SPARC (Scalable Processor ARChitecture) architecture and system software as the underlying foundation, Sun Microsys- terns is delivering a new model of computing-easy workgroup computing-to enhance the way people work, automating processes across groups, departments, and teams locally and globally.

PREFACE Getting Faster Answers About AutoCAD Whether you are a beginning AutoCAD user, a part-time user, or even a long-standing user, it is virtually impossible to remember every nuance and every option for every AutoCAD command and variable.

Engineers and scientists can use spreadsheets to help them quickly solve technical problems.

There is a growing social interest in developing vision-based vehicle guidance systems for improving traffic safety and efficiency and the environment.

Knowledge-Based Simulation: Methodology and Application represents a recent compilation of research material that reviews fundamental concepts of simulation methodology and knowledge-based simulation applications.

This volume, which contains 15 contributions, is based on a minicourse held at the 1987 IEEE Plasma Science Meeting.

Differential equations is a subject of wide applicability, and knowledge of dif- Differential equations is a subject of wide applicability, and knowledge of dif- ferential ferential equations equations topics topics permeates permeates all all areas areas of of study study in in engineering engineering and and applied applied mathematics.

Philosophy of the Text This text presents an introductory survey of the basic concepts and applied mathematical methods of nonlinear science as well as an introduction to some simple related nonlinear experimental activities.

A spline is a thin flexible strip composed of a material such as bamboo or steel that can be bent to pass through or near given points in the plane, or in 3-space in a smooth manner.

Computer vision is becoming increasingly important in several industrial applications such as automated inspection, robotic manipulations and autonomous vehicle guidance.

Nonlinear physics continues to be an area of dynamic modern research, with applications to physics, engineering, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, biology, medicine and economics.

Geometric algebra has established itself as a powerful and valuable mathematical tool for solving problems in computer science, engineering, physics, and mathematics.

From simple cases such as hook and latch attachments found in Velcro to articulated-wing flying vehicles, biology often has been used to inspire many creative design ideas.

This book reviews the algorithms for processing geometric data, with a practical focus on important techniques not covered by traditional courses on computer vision and computer graphics.

What is AutoCAD?

AutoCAD Express is an instructive and concise text enabling the reader to introduce and use this programming language on their own personal computer.

Soft computing embraces methodologies for the development of intelligent systems that have been successfully applied to a large number of real-word problems.

This book presents new concepts, techniques and promising programming models for designing software for chips with "e;many"e; (hundreds to thousands) processor cores.

Many systems, devices and appliances used routinely in everyday life, ranging from cell phones to cars, contain significant amounts of software that is not directly visible to the user and is therefore called "e;embedded"e;.

Given the growing size and heterogeneity of Systems on Chip (SOC), the design process from initial specification to chip fabrication has become increasingly complex.

This book provides readers with a comprehensive review of the state of the art in error control for Network on Chip (NOC) links.

Since register transfer level (RTL) design is less about being a bright engineer, and more about knowing the downstream implications of your work, this book explains the impact of design decisions taken that may give rise later in the product lifecycle to issues related to testability, data synchronization across clock domains, synthesizability, power consumption, routability, etc.

There is much excitement in the design and verification community about assertion-based design.

The role of arithmetic in datapath design in VLSI design has been increasing in importance over the last several years due to the demand for processors that are smaller, faster, and dissipate less power.

Analog circuit design is often the bottleneck when designing mixed analog-digital systems.

Accelerator Data-Path Synthesis for High-Throughput Signal Processing Applications is the first book to show how to use high-level synthesis techniques to cope with the stringent timing requirements of complex high-throughput real-time signal and data processing.

Advanced ASIC Chip Synthesis: Using Synopsys(R) Design Compiler(R) and PrimeTime(R) describes the advanced concepts and techniques used for ASIC chip synthesis, formal verification and static timing analysis, using the Synopsys suite of tools.

A Practical Guide to Analog Behavioral Modeling for IC System Design presents a methodology for abstracting an IC system so that the designer can gain a macroscopic view of how sub-systems interact, as well as verify system functionality in various applications before committing to a design.

This book tackles head-on the challenges of digital design in the era of billion-transistor SoCs.

Large system complexities and operation under tight timing constraints in rapidly shrinking technologies have made it extremely important to ensure correct temporal behavior of modern-day digital circuits, both before and after fabrication.

Advanced Low-Power Digital Circuit Techniques presents several novel high performance digital circuit designs that emphasize low-power and low-voltage operation.

This book describes the state-of-the-art in RF, analog, and mixed-signal circuit design for Software Defined Radio (SDR).

The roots of this book, and of the new research field that it defines, lie in the scaling of VLSI technology.

This book surveys the advanced simulation methods needed for proper modeling of state-of-the-art nanoscale devices.

This book serves as a reference for researchers and designers in Embedded Systems who need to explore design alternatives.

Research on real-time Java technology has been prolific over the past decade, leading to a large number of corresponding hardware and software solutions, and frameworks for distributed and embedded real-time Java systems.

This book describes the synthesis of logic functions using memories.

The purpose of this book is to survey the state of the art and evolving directions in post-silicon and runtime verification.