Electronics: circuits and components

Continuous-Time Sigma-Delta Modulation for A/D Conversion in Radio Receivers describes the design and theory of continuous-time sigma-delta modulators for analog-to-digital conversion in radio receivers.

For four decades the evolution of integrated circuits has followed Moore's law, according to which the number of transistors per square millimeter of silicon doubles every 18 months.

Circuit Design for RF Transceivers covers key building blocks which are needed to make an integrated transceiver for wireless and cellular applications, that is low-noise amplifiers, mixers, voltage controlled oscillators, RF power amplifiers and phase-locked loop systems.

Design of Multi-Bit Delta-Sigma A/D Converters discusses both architecture and circuit design aspects of Delta-Sigma A/D converters, with a special focus on multi-bit implementations.

Nowadays, real-time applications of Fuzzy Logic in different domains are being increasingly reported.

Design and Analysis of Analog Filters: A Signal Processing Perspective includes signal processing/systems concepts as well as implementation.

CMOS Current Amplifiers: Speed versus Nonlinearity is intended as a current-amplifier cookbook containing an extensive review of different current amplifier topologies realisable with modern CMOS integration technologies.

CMOS Fractional-N Synthesizers starts with a comprehensive introduction to general frequency synthesis.

Boundary-Scan Interconnect Diagnosis explains how to synthesize digital diagnostic sequences for wire interconnects using boundary-scan, and how to assess the quality of those sequences.

Are memory applications more critical than they have been in the past?

As integrated circuit (IC) feature sizes scaled below a quarter of a micron, thereby defining the deep submicron (DSM) era, there began a gradual shift in the impact on performance due to the metal interconnections among the active circuit components.

Frequency synthesizers are an essential building block of RF communication products.

Analog Design for CMOS VLSI Systems is a comprehensive text that offers a detailed study of the background principles and the analog design techniques for CMOS-VLSI implementation.

Analog Circuit Design contains the contribution of 18 tutorials of the 11th Workshop on Advances in Analog Circuit Design.

This book contains the revised contributions of the 18 tutorial speakers at the tenth AACD 2001 in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, April 24-26.

Fault Injection Techniques and Tools for Embedded Systems Reliability Evaluation intends to be a comprehensive guide to Fault Injection techniques used to evaluate the dependability of a digital system.

The evolution of electronic systems is pushing traditional silicon designers into areas that require new domains of expertise.

DSP System Design presents the investigation of special type of IIR polyphase filter structures combined with frequency transformation techniques used for fast, multi-rate filtering, and their application for custom fixed-point implementation.

Engineering productivity in integrated circuit product design and - velopment today is limited largely by the effectiveness of the CAD tools used.

It is hardly a revelation to note that wireless and mobile communications have grown tremendously during the last few years.

In the past decade, substrate noise has had a constant and significant impact on the design of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits.

This book is the first in a series of three dedicated to advanced topics in Mixed-Signal IC design methodologies.

Mechanical stress affects the magnitude of base-emitter voltages of forward biased bipolar transistors.

Systematic Design of CMOS Switched-Current Bandpass Sigma-Delta Modulators for Digital Communication Chips discusses architectures, circuits and procedures for the optimum design of bandpass sigma-delta (SD) A/D interfaces for mixed-signal chips in standard CMOS technologies.

Systematic Design for Optimisation of Pipelined ADCs proposes and develops new strategies, methodologies and tools for designing low-power and low-area CMOS pipelined A/D converters.

Analog design still has, unfortunately, a flavor of art.

Communications can be broadly defined as the transfer of information from one point to another.

In 1991 this author published a monograph[l] based on his experience teaching microwave hybrid materials and processing technology at the annual ISHM (now the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society, IMAPS) symposia.

The enormous rise of digital applications in the last two decades arouses the suggestion that analog techniques will lose their importance.

Power Aware Design Methodologies was conceived as an effort to bring all aspects of power-aware design methodologies together in a single document.

Silicon on insulator (SOI) is a very attractive technology for large volume integrated circuit production and is particularly good for low-voltage, low-power and high-speed digital systems.

In the arena of Parasitic-Aware Design of CMOS RF Circuits, efforts are aimed at the realization of true single-chip radios with few, if any, off-chip components.

CTL is a language that is used to represent test information.

by Kurt Keutzer Those looking for a quick overview of the book should fast-forward to the Introduction in Chapter 1.

System-Level Power Optimization for Wireless Multimedia Communication Power Aware Computing focuses on emerging issues in power aware portable multimedia communications devices beyond low-power electronic design.

CHAPTER 6 Architecting Testbenches 221 Reusable Verification Components 221 Procedural Interface 225 Development Process 226 Verilog Implementation 227 Packaging Bus-Functional Models 228 Utility Packages 231 VHDL Implementation 237 Packaging Bus-Functional Procedures 238 240 Creating a Test Harness 243 Abstracting the Client/Server Protocol Managing Control Signals 246 Multiple Server Instances 247 Utility Packages 249 Autonomous Generation and Monitoring 250 Autonomous Stimulus 250 Random Stimulus 253 Injecting Errors 255 Autonomous Monitoring 255 258 Autonomous Error Detection Input and Output Paths 258 Programmable Testbenches 259 Configuration Files 260 Concurrent Simulations 261 Compile-Time Configuration 262 Verifying Configurable Designs 263 Configurable Testbenches 265 Top Level Generics and Parameters 266 Summary 268 CHAPTER 7 Simulation Management 269 Behavioral Models 269 Behavioral versus Synthesizable Models 270 Example of Behavioral Modeling 271 Characteristics of a Behavioral Model 273 x Writing Testbenches: Functional Verification of HDL Models Modeling Reset 276 Writing Good Behavioral Models 281 Behavioral Models Are Faster 285 The Cost of Behavioral Models 286 The Benefits of Behavioral Models 286 Demonstrating Equivalence 289 Pass or Fail?

Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) experience a growing popularity recently.

VHDL Coding Styles and Methodologies, Edition is a follow up book to the first edition of same book and to VHDL Answers to Frequently Asked Questions, first and second editions.

From a review of the Second Edition 'If you are new to the field and want to know what "e;all this Verilog stuff is about,"e; you've found the golden goose.

xv From the Old to the New xvii Acknowledgments xxi 1 Verilog - A Tutorial Introduction 1 Getting Started 2 A Structural Description 2 Simulating the binaryToESeg Driver 4 Creating Ports For the Module 7 Creating a Testbench For a Module 8 11 Behavioral Modeling of Combinational Circuits Procedural Models 12 Rules for Synthesizing Combinational Circuits 13 14 Procedural Modeling of Clocked Sequential Circuits Modeling Finite State Machines 15 Rules for Synthesizing Sequential Systems 18 Non-Blocking Assignment ("e;

by Maq Mannan President and CEO, DSM Technologies Chairman of the IEEE 1364 Verilog Standards Group Past Chairman of Open Verilog International One of the major strengths of the Verilog language is the Programming Language Interface (PLI), which allows users and Verilog application developers to infinitely extend the capabilities of the Verilog language and the Verilog simulator.

The Verilog hardware description language (HDL) provides the ability to describe digital and analog systems.

Boundary-Scan, formally known as IEEE/ANSI Standard 1149.

I am honored and delighted to write the foreword to this very first book about SystemC.

The aim of Surviving the SOC Revolution: A Guide to Platform-Based Design is to provide the engineering community with a thorough understanding of the challenges involved when moving to system-on-a-chip and deliver a step-by-step methodology to get them there.

System designers, computer scientists and engineers have c- tinuously invented and employed notations for modeling, speci- ing, simulating, documenting, communicating, teaching, verifying and controlling the designs of digital systems.

"e;Reuse Methodology Manual for System-on-a-Chip Designs, Third Edition"e; outlines a set of best practices for creating reusable designs for use in an SoC design methodology.

Physics of Semiconductor Devices covers both basic classic topics such as energy band theory and the gradual-channel model of the MOSFET as well as advanced concepts and devices such as MOSFET short-channel effects, low-dimensional devices and single-electron transistors.

Logic Synthesis and Verification Algorithms is a textbook designed for courses on VLSI Logic Synthesis and Verification, Design Automation, CAD and advanced level discrete mathematics.