Electronics: circuits and components

With the exponential growth of the number of Internet nodes, the volume of the data transported on the backbone has increased with the same trend.

Emerging Memories: Technologies and Trends attempts to provide background and a description of the basic technology, function and properties of emerging as well as discussing potentially suitable applications.

This book is based on my doctoral thesis at the Helsinki University of Technology.

Design for AT-Speed Test, Diagnosis and Measurement is the first book to offer practical and proven design-for-testability (DFT) solutions to chip and system design engineers, test engineers and product managers at the silicon level as well as at the board and systems levels.

CMOS Logic Circuit Design is an up-to-date treatment of the analysis and design of CMOS integrated digital logic circuits.

CMOS Circuit Design for RF Sensors is about CMOS circuit design for sensor and actuators to be used in wireless RF systems.

Design reuse techniques have become the subject of books, conferences, and podium discussions over the last few years.

In recent years, there has been considerable interest in highly integrated, low power, portable wireless devices.

Asynchronous Pulse Logic is a comprehensive analysis of a newly developed asynchronous circuit family.

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

Algorithms for VLSI Physical Design Automation, Third Edition covers all aspects of physical design.

A recent technological advance is the art of designing circuits to test themselves, referred to as a Built-In Self-Test (BIST).

RF CMOS Power Amplifiers: Theory Design and Implementation focuses on the design procedure and the testing issues of CMOS RF power amplifiers.

"e;Wireless is coming"e; was the message received by VLSI designers in the early 1990's.

CMOS Data Converters for Communications distinguishes itself from other data converter books by emphasizing system-related aspects of the design and frequency-domain measures.

Phase-Locked Loops for Wireless Communications: Digitial, Analog and Optical Implementations, Second Edition presents a complete tutorial of phase-locked loops from analog implementations to digital and optical designs.

Multi-Standard CMOS Wireless Receivers: Analysis and Design is the first book on the subject of multi-standard wireless receivers.

CMOS Cellular Receiver Front-Ends: from Specification to Realization deals with the design of the receive path of a highly-integrated CMOS cellular transceiver for the GSM-1800 cellular system.

In the tradition of the previous three conferences, the proceedings of the 4th Ultra-Wideband Short-Pulse Electromagnetics Conference explores topics including pulse generation and detection; broadband electronic systems; antennas - theory, design, experiments and systems; pulse propagation; scattering theory; signal processing; and buried targets - detection and identification.

Design and Analysis of Integrator-Based Log-Domain Filter Circuits deals with the design and analysis of log-domain filter circuits.

Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems provides an exciting and challenging laboratory component for undergraduate digital logic and computer design courses.

Circuit simulation is essential in integrated circuit design, and the accuracy of circuit simulation depends on the accuracy of the transistor model.

It is hardly a profound observation to note that we remain in the midst of a wireless revolution.

Among analog-to-digital converters, the delta-sigma modulator has cornered the market on high to very high resolution converters at moderate speeds, with typical applications such as digital audio and instrumentation.

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.

The modern electronic testing has a forty year history.

The modern wireless communication industry has put great demands on circuit designers for smaller, cheaper transceivers in the gigahertz frequency range.

CMOS Memory Circuits is a systematic and comprehensive reference work designed to aid in the understanding of CMOS memory circuits, architectures, and design techniques.

Digital Systems Design and Prototyping: Using Field Programmable Logic and Hardware Description Languages, Second Edition covers the subject of digital systems design using two important technologies: Field Programmable Logic Devices (FPLDs) and Hardware Description Languages (HDLs).

Electrothermal Analysis of VLSI Systems addresses electrothermal problems in modern VLSI systems.

There is an ever increasing trend towards putting entire systems on a single chip.

Market demand for microprocessor performance has motivated continued scaling of CMOS through a succession of lithography generations.

Principles of Verifiable RTL Design: A Functional Coding Style Supporting Verification Processes in Verilog explains how you can write Verilog to describe chip designs at the RT-level in a manner that cooperates with verification processes.

System-On-a-Chip Verification: Methodology and Techniques is the first book to cover verification strategies and methodologies for SOC verification from system level verification to the design sign- off.

The Analog to Digital Converters represent one half of the link between the world we live in - analog - and the digital world of computers, which can handle the computations required in digital signal processing.

This book focuses on a specific engineering problem that is and will continue to be important in the forth-coming information age: namely, the need for highly integrated radio systems that can be embedded in wireless devices for various applications, including portable mobile multimedia wireless communications, wireless appliances, digital cellular, and digital cordless.

A completely updated and expanded comprehensive treatment of VHDL and its applications to the design and simulation of real, industry-standard circuits.

An accessible, nontechnical overview of active touch sensing, from sensory receptors in the skin to tactile surfaces on flat screen displays.

A provocative attempt to think about what was previously considered unthinkable: a serious philosophical case for the rights of robots.

How to educate the next generation of college students to invent, to create, and to discover—filling needs that even the most sophisticated robot cannot.

An accessible and engaging account of robots, covering the current state of the field, the fantasies of popular culture, and implications for life and work.

The idea of technological singularity, and what it would mean if ordinary human intelligence were enhanced or overtaken by artificial intelligence.

How a built environment that is robotic and interactive becomes an apt home to our restless, dynamic, and increasingly digital society.

A comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible reference for disaster robotics that covers theory, specific deployments, and ground, air, and marine modalities.

A roboticist imagines life with robots that sell us products, drive our cars, even allow us to assume new physical form, and more.

An investigation into the assignment of moral responsibilities and rights to intelligent and autonomous machines of our own making.

An introduction to the techniques and algorithms of the newest field in robotics.

Prominent experts from science and the humanities explore issues in robot ethics that range from sex to war.

How the moves of thirty-two chess pieces over sixty-four squares can help us understand the workings of the mind.