Graphical and digital media applications

Testing techniques for VLSI circuits are undergoing many exciting changes.

Embedded systems are informally defined as a collection of programmable parts surrounded by ASICs and other standard components, that interact continuously with an environment through sensors and actuators.

Welcome to the world of Verilog!

Leaf Cell and Hierarchical Compaction Techniques presents novel algorithms developed for the compaction of large layouts.

Field-programmable logic has been available for a number of years.

Codesign for Real-Time Video Applications describes a modern design approach for embedded systems.

In electronic circuit and system design, the word noise is used to refer to any undesired excitation on the system.

This book represents an attempt to treat three aspects of digital systems, design, prototyping and customization, in an integrated manner using two major technologies: VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL) as a modeling and specification tool, and Field-Programmable Logic Devices (FPLDs) as an implementation technology.

The electronic circuit is a proud child of twentieth century natural science.

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Advanced communications and information technologies provide the basis for operational risk management.

Formal Equivalence Checking and Design Debugging covers two major topics in design verification: logic equivalence checking and design debugging.

Low Power Design in Deep Submicron Electronics deals with the different aspects of low power design for deep submicron electronics at all levels of abstraction from system level to circuit level and technology.

High Speed CMOS Design Styles is written for the graduate-level student or practicing engineer who is primarily interested in circuit design.

Practical Synthesis of High-Performance Analog Circuits presents a technique for automating the design of analog circuits.

"e;System level testing is becoming increasingly important.

High-Performance Networks for Multimedia Applications presents the latest research on the services and protocols for networks providing the communication support for distributed multimedia applications.

Dynamic power management is a design methodology aiming at controlling performance and power levels of digital circuits and systems, with the goal of extending the autonomous operation time of battery-powered systems, providing graceful performance degradation when supply energy is limited, and adapting power dissipation to satisfy environmental constraints.

Logic Synthesis for Low Power VLSI Designs presents a systematic and comprehensive treatment of power modeling and optimization at the logic level.

Intelligent Image Databases: Towards Advanced Image Retrieval addresses the image feature selection issue in developing content-based image retrieval systems.

High-Level Power Analysis and Optimization presents a comprehensive description of power analysis and optimization techniques at the higher (architecture and behavior) levels of the design hierarchy, which are often the levels that yield the most power savings.

Telepresence is enabling human interaction at a distance, creating a sense of being present at a remote location.

VHDL Answers to Frequently asked Questions is a follow-up to the author's book VHDL Coding Styles and Methodologies (ISBN 0-7923-9598-0).

Recent years have seen rapid strides in the level of sophistication of VLSI circuits.

Interactive Video-on-Demand Systems: Resource Management and Scheduling Strategies addresses issues in scheduling and management of resources in an interactive continuous-media (e.

Foreword by Lars Knudsen Practical Intranet Security focuses on the various ways in which an intranet can be violated and gives a thorough review of the technologies that can be used by an organization to secure its intranet.

Artificial neural networks have been recognized as a powerful tool to learn and reproduce systems in various fields of applications.

In the early days of digital design, we were concerned with the logical correctness of circuits.

Standardization of hardware description languages and the availability of synthesis tools has brought about a remarkable increase in the productivity of hardware designers.

Memory Issues in Embedded Systems-On-Chip: Optimizations and Explorations is designed for different groups in the embedded systems-on-chip arena.

Oversampling techniques based on sigma-delta modulation are widely used to implement the analog/digital interfaces in CMOS VLSI technologies.

Mobile Computing Environments for Multimedia Systems brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area.

Since the establishment of the CAAD Futures Foundation in 1985, CAAD experts from all over the world meet every two years to present and document the state of the art of research in Computer Aided Architectural Design.

Silicon technology now allows us to build chips consisting of tens of millions of transistors.

The Verilog Programming Language Interface, commonly called the Verilog PU, is one of the more powerful features of Verilog.

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.

Direct Engineering (DE) is the creation of a product development cycle into a single, unified process.

Still Image Compression on Parallel Computer Architectures investigates the application of parallel-processing techniques to digital image compression.

Formal Semantics and Proof Techniques for Optimizing VHDL Models presents a formal model of VHDL that clearly specifies both the static and dynamic semantics of VHDL.

Rate-Quality Optimized Video Coding discusses the matter of optimizing (or negotiating) the data rate of compressed digital video and its quality, which has been a relatively neglected topic in either side of image/video coding and tele-traffic management.

Embedded systems are characterized by the presence of processors running application-specific software.

Switching Theory for Logic Synthesis covers the basic topics of switching theory and logic synthesis in fourteen chapters.

Reuse Techniques for VLSI Design is a reflection on the current state of the art in design reuse for microelectronic systems.

Principles of Verilog PLI is a `how to do' text on Verilog Programming Language Interface.

Since their introduction in 1984, Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have become one of the most popular implementation media for digital circuits and have grown into a $2 billion per year industry.

Multimedia Document Systems in Perspectives brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area.

It is certain that, over the next few years, data traffic will dwarf voice traffic on telecommunications networks.

Integrated circuit densities and operating speeds continue to rise at an exponential rate.

Human Face Recognition Using Third-Order Synthetic Neural Networks explores the viability of the application of High-order synthetic neural network technology to transformation-invariant recognition of complex visual patterns.

Although research in architectural synthesis has been conducted for over ten years it has had very little impact on industry.