Graphical and digital media applications

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.

Adaptive 3D Sound Systems focuses on creating multiple virtual sound sources in 3D reverberant spaces using adaptive filters.

Although synthetic environments were traditionally used in military settings for mission rehearsal and simulations, their use is rapidly spreading to a variety of applications in the commercial, research and industrial sectors, such as flight training for commercial aircraft, city planning, car safety research in real-time traffic simulations, and video games.

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.

The papers in this volume were presented at the Second Annual Work- shop on Active Middleware Services and were selected for inclusion here by the Editors.

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.

Adaptive Signal Models: Theory, Algorithms and Audio Applications presents methods for deriving mathematical models of natural signals.

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.

Yield and reliability of memories have degraded with device and voltage scaling in the nano-scale era, due to ever-increasing hard/soft errors and device parameter variations.

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of CMOS circuits for passive wireless microsystems.

Embedded systems applications that are either mission or safety-critical usually entail low- to mid- production volumes, require the rapid development of specific tasks, which are typically computing intensive, and are cost bounded.

Kinetic energy harvesting converts movement or vibrations into electrical energy, enables battery free operation of wireless sensors and autonomous devices and facilitates their placement in locations where replacing a battery is not feasible or attractive.

This book provides an in-depth overview of on chip instrumentation technologies and various approaches taken in adding instrumentation to System on Chip (ASIC, ASSP, FPGA, etc.

This book deals with energy delivery challenges of the power processing unit of modern computer microprocessors.

Sensor networks are meant to create awareness in space and time.

This book covers recent advances in the field of logic synthesis and design, including Boolean Matching, Logic Decomposition, Boolean satisfiability, Advanced Synthesis Techniques and Applications of Logic Design.

This textbook is written for junior/senior undergraduate and first-year graduate students in the electrical and computer engineering departments.

Design considerations for low-power operations and robustness with respect to variations typically impose contradictory requirements.

Embedded processors are the heart of embedded systems.

As diverse as tomorrow's society constituent groups may be, they will share the common requirements that their life should become safer and healthier, offering higher levels of effectiveness, communication and personal freedom.

Ultra-thin chips are the "e;smart skin"e; of a conventional silicon chip.

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, system analysis and polyhedral optimization.

Software components and component-based software development (CBSD) are acknowledged as the best approach for constructing quality software at reasonable cost.

Automatic Performance Tuning is a new software paradigm which enables software to be high performance in any computing environment.

Integrated circuits are fundamental electronic components in biomedical, automotive and many other technical systems.

In recent years, both Networks-on-Chip, as an architectural solution for high-speed interconnect, and power consumption, as a key design constraint, have continued to gain interest in the design and research communities.

The book provides a comprehensive description and implementation methodology for the Philips/NXP Aethereal/aelite Network-on-Chip (NoC).

As Moore's law continues to unfold, two important trends have recently emerged.

One of the leading causes of automobile accidents is the slow reaction of the driver while responding to a hazardous situation.

The book deals with engineering aspects of the two emerging and intertwined fields of synthetic and systems biology.

This book will describe ultra low-power, integrated circuits and systems designed for the emerging field of neural signal recording and processing, and wireless communication.

This book covers the practical application of dependable electronic systems in real industry, such as space, train control and automotive control systems, and network servers/routers.

Uncertainty in key parameters within a chip and between different chips in the deep sub micron area plays a more and more important role.

Human lives are getting increasingly entangled with technology, especially comp- ing and electronics.

Design exibility and power consumption in addition to the cost, have always been the most important issues in design of integrated circuits (ICs), and are the main concerns of this research, as well.

Focal-plane sensor-processor imager devices are sensor arrays and processor arrays embedded in each other on the same silicon chip.

The purpose of this book is to evaluate strategies for future system design in multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSoC) architectures.

Embedded software is ubiquitous today.

The Information and communication technology (ICT) industry is said to account for 2% of the worldwide carbon emissions - a fraction that continues to grow with the relentless push for more and more sophisticated computing equipment, c- munications infrastructure, and mobile devices.