Graphical and digital media 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.

The Verilog language is a hardware description language which provides a means of specifying a digital system at a wide range of levels of abstraction.

After long years of work that have seen little industrial application, high-level synthesis is finally on the verge of becoming a practical tool.

The time has come for high-level synthesis.

It is a great honor to provide a few words of introduction for Dr.

This book is an extension of one author's doctoral thesis on the false path problem.

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Continuous Media Databases brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area.

For the near future, the recent predictions and roadmaps of silicon semiconductor technology all agree that the number of transistors on a chip will keep growing exponentially according to Moore's Law, pushing technology towards the system-on-a-chip (SOC) era.

Dictation systems, read-aloud software for the blind, speech control of machinery, geographical information systems with speech input and output, and educational software with `talking head' artificial tutorial agents are already on the market.

Khaled Fazel Stefan Kaiser Digital Microwave Systems German Aerospace Center (DLR) Bosch Telecom GmbH Institute for Communications Technology D-71522 Backnang, Germany D-82234 Wessling, Germany In this last decade of this millennium the technique of multi-carrier transmission for wireless broadband multimedia applications has been receiving wide interests.

system is a complex object containing a significant percentage of elec- A tronics that interacts with the Real World (physical environments, humans, etc.

Multimedia has two fundamental characteristics that can be expressed by the following formula: Multimedia = Multiple Media + Hypermedia.

History of the Book The last three decades have witnessed an explosive development in integrated circuit fabrication technologies.

The advent of the world-wide web and web-based applications have dramatically changed the nature of computer applications.

Cellular Automata Transforms describes a new approach to using the dynamical system, popularly known as cellular automata (CA), as a tool for conducting transforms on data.

Function Architecture Co-Design is a new paradigm for the design and implementation of embedded systems.

This book presents an updated selection of the most representative contributions to the 2nd and 3rd IEEE Workshops on Signal Propagation on Interconnects (SPI) which were held in Travemtinde (Baltic See Side), Germany, May 13-15, 1998, and in Titisee-Neustadt (Black Forest), Germany, May 19-21, 1999.