Electronics: circuits and components

This book presents techniques for energy reduction in adaptive embedded multimedia systems, based on dynamically reconfigurable processors.

In DSP Architecture Design Essentials, authors Dejan Markovic and Robert W.

Ecological restrictions in many parts of the world are demanding the elimination of Pb from all consumer items.

This book explores the design implications of emerging, non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies on future computer memory hierarchy architecture designs.

This book will introduce design methodologies, known as Built-in-Self-Test (BiST) and Built-in-Self-Calibration (BiSC), which enhance the robustness of radio frequency (RF) and millimeter wave (mmWave) integrated circuits (ICs).

This book provides readers with a variety of algorithms and software tools, dedicated to the physical design of through-silicon-via (TSV) based, three-dimensional integrated circuits.

This book presents high-/mixed-voltage analog and radio frequency (RF) circuit techniques for developing low-cost multistandard wireless receivers in nm-length CMOS processes.

This book will introduce various power management integrated circuits (IC) design techniques to build future energy-efficient "e;green"e; electronics.

Microelectronic Test Structures for CMOS Technology and Products addresses the basic concepts of the design of test structures for incorporation within test-vehicles, scribe-lines, and CMOS products.

The author presents current work in bond graph methodology by providing a compilation of contributions from experts across the world that covers theoretical topics, applications in various areas as well as software for bond graph modeling.

Given the growing size and heterogeneity of Systems on Chip (SOC), the design process from initial specification to chip fabrication has become increasingly complex.

This book provides a comprehensive survey of recent progress in the design and implementation of Networks-on-Chip.

This book provides a comprehensive synthesis of the theory and practice of photonic devices for networks-on-chip.

Software Defined Radio makes wireless communications easier, more efficient, and more reliable.

This book provides readers with a comprehensive review of the state of the art in error control for Network on Chip (NOC) links.

Since register transfer level (RTL) design is less about being a bright engineer, and more about knowing the downstream implications of your work, this book explains the impact of design decisions taken that may give rise later in the product lifecycle to issues related to testability, data synchronization across clock domains, synthesizability, power consumption, routability, etc.

There is much excitement in the design and verification community about assertion-based design.

Silicon-on-Insulator Technology: Materials to VLSI, Third Edition, retraces the evolution of SOI materials, devices and circuits over a period of roughly twenty years.

The role of arithmetic in datapath design in VLSI design has been increasing in importance over the last several years due to the demand for processors that are smaller, faster, and dissipate less power.

MEMS-based Circuits and Systems for Wireless Communications provides comprehensive coverage of RF-MEMS technology from device to system level.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to embedded systems for smart appliances and energy management, bringing together for the first time a multidisciplinary blend of topics from embedded systems, information technology and power engineering.

Analog circuit design is often the bottleneck when designing mixed analog-digital systems.

Accelerator Data-Path Synthesis for High-Throughput Signal Processing Applications is the first book to show how to use high-level synthesis techniques to cope with the stringent timing requirements of complex high-throughput real-time signal and data processing.

Advanced ASIC Chip Synthesis: Using Synopsys(R) Design Compiler(R) and PrimeTime(R) describes the advanced concepts and techniques used for ASIC chip synthesis, formal verification and static timing analysis, using the Synopsys suite of tools.

A Practical Guide to Analog Behavioral Modeling for IC System Design presents a methodology for abstracting an IC system so that the designer can gain a macroscopic view of how sub-systems interact, as well as verify system functionality in various applications before committing to a design.

This book tackles head-on the challenges of digital design in the era of billion-transistor SoCs.

Large system complexities and operation under tight timing constraints in rapidly shrinking technologies have made it extremely important to ensure correct temporal behavior of modern-day digital circuits, both before and after fabrication.

Advanced Low-Power Digital Circuit Techniques presents several novel high performance digital circuit designs that emphasize low-power and low-voltage operation.

This book describes the state-of-the-art in RF, analog, and mixed-signal circuit design for Software Defined Radio (SDR).

The field of electronic packaging continues to grow at an amazing rate.

The roots of this book, and of the new research field that it defines, lie in the scaling of VLSI technology.

This book presents models and procedures to design pipeline analog-to-digital converters, compensating for device inaccuracies, so that high-performance specs can be met within short design cycles.

This book describes the structured design and optimization of efficient, energy processing integrated circuits.

This book surveys the advanced simulation methods needed for proper modeling of state-of-the-art nanoscale devices.

This book serves as a reference for researchers and designers in Embedded Systems who need to explore design alternatives.

Verification of real-time requirements in systems-on-chip becomes more complex as more applications are integrated.

Research on real-time Java technology has been prolific over the past decade, leading to a large number of corresponding hardware and software solutions, and frameworks for distributed and embedded real-time Java systems.

This book gives a comprehensive introduction to the design challenges of MPSoC platforms, focusing on early design space exploration.

This book describes the synthesis of logic functions using memories.

This book provides the foundations for understanding hardware security and trust, which have become major concerns for national security over the past decade.

The purpose of this book is to survey the state of the art and evolving directions in post-silicon and runtime verification.

Yield and reliability of memories have degraded with device and voltage scaling in the nano-scale era, due to ever-increasing hard/soft errors and device parameter variations.

This book presents a new exploration environment for mesh-based, heterogeneous FPGA architectures.

This book describes methods for distributing power in high speed, high complexity integrated circuits with power levels exceeding many tens of watts and power supplies below a volt.

The need for advanced thermal management materials in electronic packaging has been widely recognized as thermal challenges become barriers to the electronic industry's ability to provide continued improvements in device and system performance.

The general trend of modern network devices towards greater intelligence and programmability is accelerating the development of systems that are increasingly autonomous and to a certain degree self-managing.

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of CMOS circuits for passive wireless microsystems.

"e;This book is a comprehensive text for the design of safety critical, hard real-time embedded systems.

This book introduces a novel design methodology which can significantly reduce the ASIP development effort through high degrees of design automation.

This book will introduce new techniques for detecting and diagnosing small-delay defects in integrated circuits.