Graphical and digital media applications

Modeling in Analog Design highlights some of the most pressing issues in the use of modeling techniques for design of analogue circuits.

Modern electronics is driven by the explosive growth of digital communications and multi-media technology.

Digital Timing Macromodeling for VLSI Design Verification first of all provides an extensive history of the development of simulation techniques.

VHDL Coding Styles and Methodologies was originally written as a teaching tool for a VHDL training course.

Algorithms for VLSI Physical Design Automation, Second Edition is a core reference text for graduate students and CAD professionals.

Short turnaround has become critical in the design of electronic systems.

The purpose of this book is to introduce VHSIC Hardware Description Lan- guage (VHDL) and its use for synthesis.

Model Generation in Electronic Design covers a wide range of model applications and research.

A reactive system is one that is in continual interaction with its environment and executes at a pace determined by that environment.

Co-Synthesis of Hardware and Software for Digital Embedded Systems, with a Foreword written by Giovanni De Micheli, presents techniques that are useful in building complex embedded systems.

by Phil Moorby The Verilog Hardware Description Language has had an amazing impact on the mod- em electronics industry, considering that the essential composition of the language was developed in a surprisingly short period of time, early in 1984.

The appropriate interconnect model has changed several times over the past two decades due to the application of aggressive technology scaling.

An embedded system is loosely defined as any system that utilizes electronics but is not perceived or used as a general-purpose computer.

Data Management and Internet Computing for Image/Pattern Analysis focuses on the data management issues and Internet computing aspect of image processing and pattern recognition research.

Semantic Video Object Segmentation for Content-Based Multimedia Applications provides a thorough review of state-of-the-art techniques as well as describing several novel ideas and algorithms for semantic object extraction from image sequences.

In order to establish technical prerequisites for efficient electronic business and education on the Internet, appropriate system support is needed as a vital condition for maximization of both short-term and long-term profits.

Multi-Frame Motion-Compensated Prediction for Video Transmission presents a comprehensive description of a new technique in video coding and transmission.

System Design: A Practical Guide with SpecC presents the system design flow following a simple example through the whole process in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step fashion.

This book was motivated by the problems being faced with shrinking IC process feature sizes.

Control networks span a wide range of application areas.

Design is an art form in which the designer selects from a myriad of alternatives to bring an "e;optimum"e; choice to a user.

Low-Energy FPGAs: Architecture and Design is a primary resource for both researchers and practicing engineers in the field of digital circuit design.

Heterogeneous Network Quality of Service Systems will be especially useful for networking professionals and researchers, advanced level students, and other information technology professionals whose work relate to the Internet.

Asynchronous, or unclocked, digital systems have several potential advantages over their synchronous counterparts.

Spectral Techniques in VLSI CAD have become a subject of renewed interest in the design automation community due to the emergence of new and efficient methods for the computation of discrete function spectra.

Information Organization and Databases: Foundations of Data Organization provides recent developments of information organization technologies that have become crucial not only for data mining applications and information visualization, but also for treatment of semistructured data, spatio-temporal data and multimedia data that are not necessarily stored in conventional DBMSs.

Research and development of logic synthesis and verification have matured considerably over the past two decades.

This book contains the proceedings of the workshop Uncertainty in Geomet- ric Computations that was held in Sheffield, England, July 5-6, 2001.

JPEG2000: Image Compression Fundamentals, Standards and Practice is an essential reference for engineers and researchers in the fields of communication, image processing, signal processing, information theory, and multimedia.

Multimedia Mining: A Highway to Intelligent Multimedia Documents brings together experts in digital media content analysis, state-of-art data mining and knowledge discovery in multimedia database systems, knowledge engineers and domain experts from diverse applied disciplines.

Traditionally, scientific fields have defined boundaries, and scientists work on research problems within those boundaries.

Test Resource Partitioning for System-on-a-Chip is about test resource partitioning and optimization techniques for plug-and-play system-on-a-chip (SOC) test automation.

Symbolic Simulation Methods for Industrial Formal Verification contains two distinct, but related, approaches to the verification problem.

Evolutionary Algorithms for Embedded System Design describes how Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) concepts can be applied to circuit and system design - an area where time-to-market demands are critical.

Analyzing Video Sequences of Multiple Humans: Tracking, Posture Estimation and Behavior Recognition describes some computer vision-based methods that analyze video sequences of humans.

Java is an exciting new object-oriented technology.

This book deals with digital watermarking, which is defined by the authors of this book as the art of hiding auxiliary information in digital data in a secure, robust and imperceptible fashion.

Content-Based Image And Video Retrieval addresses the basic concepts and techniques for designing content-based image and video retrieval systems.

This work began in 1995 as an outgrowth of the InfoPad project which showed us that in order to reduce the energy consumption of a portable multimedia terminal that something had to be done about the consumption of the microprocessor subsystem.

Robust Modal Control covers most classical multivariable modal control design techniques that were shown to be effective in practice, and in addition proposes several new tools.

This book answers a question which came about while the author was work- ing on his diploma thesis [1]: would it be better to ask for the available band- width instead of probing the network (like TCP does)?

DSSSL (Document Style Semantics and Specification Language) is an ISO standard (ISO/IEC 10179: 1996) published in the year 1996.

Programmable logic radically changed the electronic system design landscape.

Verification isjob one in today's modem design process.

Due to the great success and enormous impact of IP networks, In- ternet access (such as sending and receiving e-mails) and web brows- ing have become the ruling paradigm for next generation wireless systems.

Perspectives On Software Requirements presents perspectives on several current approaches to software requirements.

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Interconnect Technology and Design for Gigascale Integration is the cumulative effort from academic researchers at Georgia Tech, MIT, and Stanford, as well as from industry researchers at IBM T.

Traditionally, scientific fields have defined boundaries, and scientists work on research problems within those boundaries.

Software Visualization: From Theory to Practice was initially selected as a special volume for "e;The Annals of Software Engineering (ANSE) Journal"e;, which has been discontinued.