Electronics: circuits and components

Analysis and Design of MOSFETs: Modeling, Simulation, and Parameter Extraction is the first book devoted entirely to a broad spectrum of analysis and design issues related to the semiconductor device called metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET).

The study of circuits is the foundation on which most other courses in the electrical engineering curriculum are based.

Very fast advances in IC technologies have brought new challenges into the physical design of integrated systems.

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.

Over the past two decades, technologies for microsystems fabrication have made considerable progress.

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.

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.

A Flash memory is a Non Volatile Memory (NVM) whose "e;unit cells"e; are fabricated in CMOS technology and programmed and erased electrically.

One of the greatest challenges facing package manufacturers is to develop reliable fine pitch thin packages with high leadcounts, capable of dissipating heat, and deliver them in volume to the market in a very short space of time.

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.

Microcantilevers for Atomic Force Microscope Data Storage describes a research collaboration between IBM Almaden and Stanford University in which a new mass data storage technology was evaluated.

Log-domain and translinear filters provide a competitive alternative to the challenges of ever increasing low-voltage, low-power and high frequency demands in the area of continuous-time filters.

Below is a copy of Professor Takeshi Takei's original preface that he wrote for my first book, Modem Ferrite Teclmology.

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.

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.

CMOS Current Amplifiers presents design strategies for high performance current amplifiers based on CMOS technology.

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.

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

Electronics has become the largest industry, surpassing agriCUlture, auto.

A foreword is usually prepared by someone who knows the author or who knows enough to provide additional insight on the purpose of the work.

The VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL) provides a standard machine processable notation for describing hardware.

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"e;The professional schools will resume their professional responsibilities just to the degree that they can discover a science of design, a body of intellectually tough, partly formalizable, partly empirical teachable doctrine about the design process.

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

Over the past few years, the demand for high speed Digital Signal Proces- sing (DSP) has increased dramatically.

The early era of neural network hardware design (starting at 1985) was mainly technology driven.

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.

Synchronization is one of the important issues in digital system design.

We have reached the double conclusion: that invention is choice, that this choice is imperatively governed by the sense of scientific beauty.

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.

Every organization, business, and manager is unique, and each demands an individually tailored management style.

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Microprocessors have come a long way since their conception.

Solders have given the designer of modern consumer, commercial, and military electronic systems a remarkable flexibility to interconnect electronic components.

Let's assume that you, the reader, have been educated in the basics of science and perhaps some branch of engineering.

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

Stochastic Resonance: Theory and Applications deals with the theory of noise-added systems and in particular with Stochastic Resonance, a quite novel theory that was introduced in the 1980s to provide better understanding of some natural phenomena (e.

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.

Appropriate for use as a graduate text or a professional reference, Languages for Digital Embedded Systems is the first detailed, broad survey of hardware and software description languages for embedded system design.