Electronics: circuits and components

This book addresses challenges faced by both the algorithm designer and the chip designer, who need to deal with the ongoing increase of algorithmic complexity and required data throughput for today's mobile applications.

The work establishes the design flow for the optimization of linear CMOS power amplifiers from the first steps of the design to the final IC implementation and tests.

This book provides a hands-on, application-oriented guide to the language and methodology of both SystemVerilog Assertions and SytemVerilog Functional Coverage.

This book develops voltage-to-frequency converter (VFC) solutions integrated in standard CMOS technology to be used as a part of a microcontroller-based, multisensor interface in the environment of portable applications, particularly within a WSN node.

This book discusses various aspects, challenges, and solutions for developing systems-of-systems for situation awareness, using applications in the domain of maritime safety and security.

This book focuses on modeling, simulation and analysis of analog circuit aging.

Fundamentals of Nanoscaled Field Effect Transistors gives comprehensive coverage of the fundamental physical principles and theory behind nanoscale transistors.

Advanced DPA Theory and Practice provides a thorough survey of new physical leakages of embedded systems, namely the power and the electromagnetic emanations.

This book describes an alternative method of realizing accurate on-chip frequency references in standard CMOS processes.

This book models an idealized neuron as being driven by basic electrical elements, the goal being to systematically characterize the logical properties of neural pulses.

This book shows readers how to develop energy-efficient algorithms and hardware architectures to enable high-definition 3D video coding on resource-constrained embedded devices.

This book explores the challenges and presents best strategies for designing Through-Silicon Vias (TSVs) for 3D integrated circuits.

Thermal Management for LED Applications provides state-of-the-art information on recent developments in thermal management as it relates to LEDs and LED-based systems and their applications.

Sensors: An Introductory Course provides an essential reference on the fundamentals of sensors.

This book describes a unique approach to smart receiver system design.

In Physical Unclonable Functions in Theory and Practice, the authors present an in-depth overview of various topics concerning PUFs, providing theoretical background and application details.

This book describes a new design approach for energy-efficient, Domain-Specific Instruction set Processor (DSIP) architectures for the wireless baseband domain.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the design of sustainable and green computing systems (GSC).

This book provides techniques to tackle the design challenges raised by the increasing diversity and complexity of emerging, heterogeneous architectures for embedded systems.

This book describes model-based development of adaptive embedded systems, which enable improved functionality using the same resources.

This book is based on the 18 presentations during the 21st workshop on Advances in Analog Circuit Design.

The application of CMOS circuits and ASIC VLSI systems to problems in medicine and system biology has led to the emergence of Bio/CMOS Interfaces and Co-Design as an exciting and rapidly growing area of research.

Automated Configuration has long been the subject of intensive research, especially in Artificial Intelligence.

Emerging Topics in Computational Electromagnetics in Computational Electromagnetics presents advances in Computational Electromagnetics.

This book describes design techniques that can be used to mitigate crosstalk in high-speed I/O circuits.

Multiprocessor platforms play important roles in modern computing systems, and appear in various applications, ranging from energy-limited hand-held devices to large data centers.

This book describes a variety of current feedback operational amplifier (CFOA) architectures and their applications in analog signal processing/generation.

This book provides a unified overview of network-on-chip router micro-architecture, the corresponding design opportunities and challenges, and existing solutions to overcome these challenges.

This book provides a detailed analysis of all aspects of capacitive DC-DC converter design: topology selection, control loop design and noise mitigation.

This book covers key concepts in the design of 2D and 3D Network-on-Chip interconnect.

This book provides an invaluable primer on the techniques utilized in the design of low power digital semiconductor devices.

Materials and Reliability Handbook for Semiconductor Optical and Electron Devices provides comprehensive coverage of reliability procedures and approaches for electron and photonic devices.

This book describes innovative techniques and the theoretical background for design and analysis of high performance RF/Microwave transmitters.

This book describes the fundamentals of data acquisition systems, how they enable users to sample signals that measure real physical conditions and convert the resulting samples into digital, numeric values that can be analyzed by a computer.

This book describes the state-of-the-art in energy efficient, fault-tolerant embedded systems.

This book provides readers specializing in ultra-low power supply design for self-powered applications an invaluable reference on reconfigurable switched capacitor power converters.

This book presents a new FPGA architecture known as tree-based FPGA architecture, due to its hierarchical nature.

This book offers readers broad coverage of techniques to model, verify and validate the behavior and performance of complex distributed embedded systems.

This book contains a selection of papers presented at the First National Conference on Sensors held in Rome 15-17 February 2011.

This book provides various design techniques for switched-capacitor on-chip high-voltage generators, including charge pump circuits, regulators, level shifters, references, and oscillators.

This textbook serves as an introduction to the subject of embedded systems design, with emphasis on integration of custom hardware components with software.

This book describes a communication paradigm that could shape the future of wireless communication networks, Opportunistic Spectrum Access (OSA) in Cognitive Radio Networks (CRN).

Organic and printed electronics can enable a revolution in the applications of electronics and this book offers readers an overview of the state-of-the-art in this rapidly evolving domain.

Emerging Trends in Computing, Informatics, Systems Sciences, and Engineering includes a set of rigorously reviewed world-class manuscripts addressing and detailing state-of-the-art research projects in the areas of Industrial Electronics, Technology & Automation, Telecommunications and Networking, Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering, Engineering Education, Instructional Technology, Assessment, and E-learning.

In the fourth edition of Adaptive Filtering: Algorithms and Practical Implementation, author Paulo S.

Innovations and Advances in Computer, Information, Systems Sciences, and Engineering includes the proceedings of the International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering (CISSE 2011).

This book describes the use of low-power low-cost and extremely small radios to provide essential time reference for wireless sensor networks.

This book shows that digitally assisted analog to digital converters are not the only way to cope with poor analog performance caused by technology scaling.

This book describes optical receiver solutions integrated in standard CMOS technology, attaining high-speed short-range transmission within cost-effective constraints.

This book provides a broad survey of the field of biochips, including fundamentals of microelectronics and biomaterials interaction with various, living tissues, as well as numerous, diverse applications.