Electronics: circuits and components

Concurrent simulation is over twenty years old.

Analog-to-digital (A/D) and digital-to-analog (D/A) converters provide the link between the analog world of transducers and the digital world of signal processing, computing and other digital data collection or data processing systems.

Modeling and Simulation of High Speed VLSI Interconnects brings together in one place important contributions and state-of-the-art research results in this rapidly advancing area.

Computation in Neurons and Neural Systems contains the collected papers of the 1993 Conference on Computation and Neural Systems which was held between July 31--August 7, in Washington, DC.

Logic Synthesis for Control Automata provides techniques for logic design of very complex control units with hardly any constraints on their size, i.

Timing research in high performance VLSI systems has advanced at a steady pace over the last few years, while tools, especially theoretical mechanisms, lag behind.

As we approach the end of the present century, the elementary particles of light (photons) are seen to be competing increasingly with the elementary particles of charge (electrons/holes) in the task of transmitting and processing the insatiable amounts of infonnation needed by society.

Physical Design for Multichip Modules collects together a large body of important research work that has been conducted in recent years in the area of Multichip Module (MCM) design.

When confronted with the hows and whys of nature's computational engines, some prefer to focus upon neural function: addressing issues of neural system behavior and its relation to natural intelligence.

Adaptive filtering is commonly used in many communication applications including speech and video predictive coding, mobile radio, ISDN subscriber loops, and multimedia systems.

An Analog VLSI System for Stereoscopic Vision investigates the interaction of the physical medium and the computation in both biological and analog VLSI systems by synthesizing a functional neuromorphic system in silicon.

System Test and Diagnosis is the first book on test and diagnosis at the system level, defined as any aggregation of related elements that together form an entity of sufficient complexity for which it is impractical to treat all of the elements at the lowest level of detail.

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

Digital signal processing (DSP) is used in a wide range of applications such as speech, telephone, mobile radio, video, radar and sonar.

Power consumption has become a major design consideration for battery-operated, portable systems as well as high-performance, desktop systems.

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.

It is recognized that formal design and verification methods are an important requirement for the attainment of high quality system designs.

Traditionally, Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools have been used to create the nominal design of an integrated circuit (IC), such that the circuit nominal response meets the desired performance specifications.

Planning and Architectural Design of Integrated Services Digital Networks: Civil and Military Applications provides a comprehensive treatment of ISDNs: how to plan and design them architecturally and how to implement them so that they meet certain given user requirements ranging from a variety of service demands to transmission performance, security, reliability/availability, capability for growth, interoperability with other ISDN and non-ISDN networks and, of course, cost.

Analog filters are commonly used in areas such as electronics, communications, controls and signal processing.

Preface Testing Integrated Circuits for manufacturing defects includes four basic disciplines.

The Fourier transform is one of the most important mathematical tools in a wide variety of fields in science and engineering.

Low-Power Digital VLSI Design: Circuits and Systems addresses both process technologies and device modeling.

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

Advances in the state of the art mean the signal processing ICs of ever-increasing complexity are being introduced.

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.

Analog Signal Generation for Built-In-Self-Test (BIST) of Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits is a concise introduction to a powerful new signal generation technique.

Feed-Forward Neural Networks: Vector Decomposition Analysis, Modelling and Analog Implementation presents a novel method for the mathematical analysis of neural networks that learn according to the back-propagation algorithm.

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

Low Power Design Methodologies presents the first in-depth coverage of all the layers of the design hierarchy, ranging from the technology, circuit, logic and architectural levels, up to the system layer.

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.

High-Performance Digital VLSI Circuit Design is the first book devoted entirely to the design of digital high-performance VLSI circuits.

Low-Voltage Low-Power Analog Integrated Circuits brings together in one place important contributions and state-of-the-art research results in this rapidly advancing area.

Controlling the mechanical, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties of materials by advanced fabrication methods (Le.

Low-Voltage CMOS Operational Amplifiers: Theory, Design and Implementation discusses both single and two-stage architectures.

Integrated Fiber-Optic Receivers covers many aspects of the design of integrated circuits for fiber-optic receivers and other high-speed serial data links.

Neural Information Processing and VLSI provides a unified treatment of this important subject for use in classrooms, industry, and research laboratories, in order to develop advanced artificial and biologically-inspired neural networks using compact analog and digital VLSI parallel processing techniques.

The drive toward new semiconductor technologies is intricately related to market demands for cheaper, smaller, faster, and more reliable circuits with lower power consumption.

This is not a dictionary - and nor is it an encyclopedia.

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.

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.

Applied and Computational Control, Signals, and Circuits: Recent Developments is an interdisciplinary book blending mathematics, computational mathematics, scientific computing and software engineering with control and systems theory, signal processing, and circuit simulations.