Graphical and digital media applications

It is well known that embedded systems have to be implemented efficiently.

The area of analog integrated circuits is facing some serious challenges due to the ongoing trends towards low supply voltages, low power consumption and high-frequency operation.

Real World Speech Processing brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast-moving area.

With the advent of portable and autonomous computing systems, power con- sumption has emerged as a focal point in many research projects, commercial systems and DoD platforms.

Test functions (fault detection, diagnosis, error correction, repair, etc.

In this book, we concentrate on developing noise simulation techniques for RF circuits.

Mixed-Mode Simulation and Analog Multilevel Simulation addresses the problems of simulating entire mixed analog/digital systems in the time-domain.

Memory Design Techniques for Low Energy Embedded Systems centers one of the most outstanding problems in chip design for embedded application.

Embedded computer systems use both off-the-shelf microprocessors and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) to implement specialized system functions.

Data Access and Storage Management for Embedded Programmable Processors gives an overview of the state-of-the-art in system-level data access and storage management for embedded programmable processors.

Multimedia is changing the design of database and information retrieval systems.

The world of wireless communications is changing very rapidly since a few years.

Already today more than 90% of all programmable processors are employed in embedded systems.

MPEG-4 is the multimedia standard for combining interactivity, natural and synthetic digital video, audio and computer-graphics.

As electronic technology reaches the point where complex systems can be integrated on a single chip, and higher degrees of performance can be achieved at lower costs, designers must devise new ways to undertake the laborious task of coping with the numerous, and non-trivial, problems that arise during the conception of such systems.

Extracting content from text continues to be an important research problem for information processing and management.

Sigma delta modulation has become a very useful and widely applied technique for high performance Analog-to-Digital (A/D) conversion of narrow band signals.

ATM Network Performance describes a unified approach to ATM network management.

Originally written in Russian and used in the Gelfand Correspondence School, "e;Lines and Curves"e; has since become a classic: the exposition maintains mathematical rigor while balancing creative storytelling and unusual examples of geometric properties.

Constructing the Infrastructure for the Knowledge Economy: Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice is the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Systems Development, held in Melbourne, Australia, August 29-31, 2003.

The area of content-based video retrieval is a very hot area both for research and for commercial applications.

Modern Placement Techniques explains physical design and VLSI/CAD placement to the professional engineer and engineering student.

In the last few decades, multiscale algorithms have become a dominant trend in large-scale scientific computation.

Systematic Design of Analog IP Blocks introduces a design methodology that can help to bridge the productivity gap.

High-Speed Clock Network Design is a collection of design concepts, techniques and research works from the author for clock distribution in microprocessors and high-performance chips.

Behavioral Intervals in Embedded Software introduces a comprehensive approach to timing, power, and communication analysis of embedded software processes.

The design process of digital circuits is often carried out in individual steps, like logic synthesis, mapping, and routing.

Introduction The exponential scaling of feature sizes in semiconductor technologies has side-effects on layout optimization, related to effects such as inter- connect delay, noise and crosstalk, signal integrity, parasitics effects, and power dissipation, that invalidate the assumptions that form the basis of previous design methodologies and tools.

During the last few years Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have become increasingly important.

A major advantage of a direct digital synthesizer (DDS) is that its output frequency, phase and amplitude can be precisely and rapidly manipulated under digital processor control.

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

The design of computer systems to be embedded in critical real-time applications is a complex task.

Content-Based Audio Classification and Retrieval for Audiovisual Data Parsing is an up-to-date overview of audio and video content analysis.

Electronic Chips & Systems Design Languagesoutlines and describes the latest advances in design languages.

System-on-Chip Methodologies & Design Languages brings together a selection of the best papers from three international electronic design language conferences in 2000.

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.

Cellular Neural Networks (CNNs) constitute a class of nonlinear, recurrent and locally coupled arrays of identical dynamical cells that operate in parallel.

This book contains the extended and revised editions of all the talks of the ninth AACD Workshop held in Hotel Bachmair, April 11 - 13 2000 in Rottach-Egem, Germany.

Intelligent Multimedia Multi-Agent Systems focuses on building intelligent successful systems.

Formal verification has become one of the most important steps in circuit design.

This book is the first in aseries on novellow power design architectures, methods and design practices.

The building blocks of today's and future embedded systems are complex intellectual property components, or cores, many of which are programmable processors.

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.

This new book on Analog Circuit Design contains the revised contributions of all the tutorial speakers of the eight workshop AACD (Advances in Analog Circuit Design), which was held at Nice, France on March 23-25, 1999.

XV Acknowledgments xvii Chapter 1 Verilog - A Tutorial Introduction Getting Started 2 A Structural Description 2 Simulating the binaryToESeg Driver 4 Creating Ports For the Module 7 Creating a Testbench For a Module 8 Behavioral Modeling of Combinational Circuits II Procedural Models 12 Rules for Synthesizing Combinational Circuits 13 Behavioral Modeling of Clocked Sequential Circuits 14 Modeling Finite State Machines IS Rules for Synthesizing Sequential Systems 18 Non-Blocking Assignment("e;

For someone with a hammer the whole world looks like a nail.

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

Formal Design Theory (PDT) is a mathematical theory of design.