Electronics: circuits and components

Since process variation and chip performance uncertainties have become more pronounced as technologies scale down into the nanometer regime, accurate and efficient modeling or characterization of variations from the device to the architecture level have become imperative for the successful design of VLSI chips.

This book provides a guide to Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) bitcell design and analysis to meet the nano-regime challenges for CMOS devices and emerging devices, such as Tunnel FETs.

This book covers layout design and layout migration methodologies for optimizing multi-net wire structures in advanced VLSI interconnects.

Lead-free solders are used extensively as interconnection materials in electronic assemblies and play a critical role in the global semiconductor packaging and electronics manufacturing industry.

This book presents novel research techniques, algorithms, methodologies and experimental results for high level power estimation and power aware high-level synthesis.

This book contains a selection of papers presented at the 16th AISEM ("e;Associazione Italiana Sensori e Microsistemi"e;) National Conference on Sensors and Microsystems, held in Rome 7-9 February 2011.

This book describes techniques for time-interleaving a number of analog-to-digital data converters to achieve demanding bandwidth requirements.

This book describes the design and implementation of an electronic subsystem called the frequency synthesizer, which is a very important building block for any wireless transceiver.

This book brings together a selection of the best papers from the thirteenth edition of the Forum on specification and Design Languages Conference (FDL), which was held in Southampton, UK in September 2010.

This book presents theory, design methods and novel applications for integrated circuits for analog signal processing.

This textbook is appropriate for use in graduate-level curricula in analog to digital conversion, as well as for practicing engineers in need of a state-of-the-art reference on data converters.

This book presents the methodologies and for embedded systems design, using field programmable gate array (FPGA) devices, for the most modern applications.

This book covers state-of-the art techniques for high-level modeling and validation of complex hardware/software systems, including those with multicore architectures.

This book introduces techniques that advance the capabilities and strength of modern software tools for physical synthesis, with the ultimate goal to improve the quality of leading-edge semiconductor products.

This book introduces resource-aware data fusion algorithms to gather and combine data from multiple sources (e.

This book provides practical solutions for delay and power reduction for on-chip interconnects and buses.

To satisfy the higher requirements of digitally converged embedded systems, this book describes heterogeneous multicore technology that uses various kinds of low-power embedded processor cores on a single chip.

Given the widespread use of real-time multitasking systems, there are tremendous optimization opportunities if reconfigurable computing can be effectively incorporated while maintaining performance and other design constraints of typical applications.

This book describes techniques for designing complex, discrete-time ?

This book describes methods to design distributed amplifiers useful for performing circuit functions such as duplexing, paraphrase amplification, phase shifting power splitting and power combiner applications.

The devices described in "e;Advanced MOS-Gated Thyristor Concepts"e; are utilized in microelectronics production equipment, in power transmission equipment, and for very high power motor control in electric trains, steel-mills, etc.

This book describes the design of low-voltage analog integrated filters using current mirrors, one of the most common building blocks both in analog and mixed-signal VLSI circuits, offering the advantages of low-voltage operation, derivation of resistorless topologies and electronic adjustment capability of their frequency characteristics.

This book introduces Open Core Protocol (OCP) not as a conventional hardware communications protocol but as a meta-protocol: a means for describing and capturing the communications requirements of an IP core, and mapping them to a specific set of signals with known semantics.

This book describes several Digital Delta-Sigma Modulator (DDSM) architectures, including multi stage noise shaping (MASH), error feedback modulator (EFM) and single quantizer (SQ)-DDSM modulators, with a focus on predicting and maximizing their cycle lengths.

As the complexity of modern embedded systems increases, it becomes less practical to design monolithic processing platforms.

This book presents innovative solutions for the implementation of Sigma-Delta Modulation (SDM) based Analog-to-Digital Conversion (ADC), required for the next generation of wireless hand-held terminals.

The Advanced Study Institute on "e;Advances in Superconductivity"e; was held at the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture in Erice, Sicily, during July 3 to July 15, 1982.

Synthesis of Computational Structures for Analog Signal Processing focuses on analysis and design of analog signal processing circuits.

This book highlights the complex issues, tasks and skills that must be mastered by an IP designer, in order to design an optimized and robust digital circuit to solve a problem.

Intelligent systems are required to facilitate the use of information provided by the internet and other computer based technologies.

This book provides a comprehensive methodology for automated design, test and diagnosis, and use of robust, low-cost, and manufacturable digital microfluidic systems.

This book to offers a hands-on guide to designing, analyzing and debugging a communication infrastructure based on the Controller Area Network (CAN) bus.

The book covers the CMOS-based millimeter wave circuits and devices and presents methods and design techniques to use CMOS technology for circuits operating beyond 100 GHz.

This book analyzes automatic gain control (AGC) loop circuits and demonstrates AGC solutions in the environment of wireless receivers, mainly in wireless receivers with stringent constraints in settling-time and wide dynamic range, such as WLAN and Bluetooth receivers.

Predictive Technology Model for Robust Nanoelectronic Design explains many of the technical mysteries behind the Predictive Technology Model (PTM) that has been adopted worldwide in explorative design research.

This book presents design techniques, analysis and implementation of high performance and power efficient, variation tolerant on-chip interconnects.

This book describes the design of Software Radio (SWR).

Since the first edition of this book was published early in 1970, three major developments have occurred in the field of x-ray spectrochemical analysis.

This book is concerned with the use of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) in the device and process development of Very-Large-Scale-Integrated Circuits (VLSI).

Routing of VLSI chips is an important, time consuming, and difficult problem.

This volume contains the proceedings of a workshop on Analog Integrated Neural Systems held May 8, 1989, in connection with the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems.

This book is intended to be a working reference for electronic hardware de- signers who are interested in writing VHDL models.

VHDL is a comprehensive language that allows a user to deal with design complexity.

From the perspective of complex systems, conventional Ie's can be regarded as "e;discrete"e; devices interconnected according to system design objectives imposed at the circuit board level and higher levels in the system implementation hierarchy.

Wafer Scale Integration (WSI) is the culmination of the quest for larger integrated circuits.

VLSI Specification, Verification and Synthesis Proceedings of a workshop held in Calgary from 12-16 January 1987.

Concurrent data structures simplify the development of concurrent programs by encapsulating commonly used mechanisms for synchronization and commu- nication into data structures.

The summer school on VLSf GAD Tools and Applications was held from July 21 through August 1, 1986 at Beatenberg in the beautiful Bernese Oberland in Switzerland.

I am indebted to my thesis advisor, Michael Genesereth, for his guidance, inspiration, and support which has made this research possible.