Electronics: circuits and components

Addressing the rising security issues during the design stages of cyber-physical systems, this book develops a systematic approach to address security at early design stages together with all other design constraints.

This book presents state-of-the-art techniques for radiation hardened high-resolution Time-to-Digital converters and low noise frequency synthesizers.

This book describes the design of microelectronic circuits for energy harvesting, broadband energy conversion, new methods and technologies for energy conversion.

This book presents a case study on a new approach for the optimum design of rooftop, grid-connected photovoltaic-system installation.

This book provides an overview of positioning technologies, applications and services in a format accessible to a wide variety of readers.

This book is a compilation and a collection of tutorials and recent advances in the use of nullors (combinations of nullators and norators) and pathological mirrors in analog circuit and system design.

This book provides a comprehensive reference to major neural interfacing technologies used to transmit signals between the physical world and the nervous system for repairing, restoring and even augmenting body functions.

This book presents a realistic and a holistic review of the microelectronic and semiconductor technology options in the post Moore's Law regime.

This book explores the direct thrust force control (DTFC) of tubular surface-mount linear permanent magnet synchronous motors (linear PMSMs).

This book introduces a completely novel architecture that can relax the trade-off existing today between noise, power and area consumption in a very suitable solution for advanced wireless communication systems.

This book provides a comprehensive coverage of hardware security concepts, derived from the unique characteristics of emerging logic and memory devices and related architectures.

This book presents the study, design, modulation, optimization and implementation of low power, passive DT-[Sigma Delta]Ms for use in audio applications.

This book discusses the design of multi-camera systems and their application to fields such as the virtual reality, gaming, film industry, medicine, automotive industry, drones, etc.

This book describes technology used for effective sensing of our physical world and intelligent processing techniques for sensed information, which are essential to the success of Internet of Things (IoT).

This work is motivated by the ongoing open question of how information in the outside world is represented and processed by the brain.

The failures of electronic controls, which can cause loss of life and property, are discussed from the perspective of both the design and manufacturing functions and clarified for the responsible forensic team.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of flow-based, microfluidic VLSI.

This book presents a new threat modelling approach that specifically targets the hardware supply chain, covering security risks throughout the lifecycle of an electronic system.

This book focuses on broadband power amplifier design for wireless communication.

A unique feature of this textbook is to provide a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental knowledge in embedded systems, with applications in cyber-physical systems and the Internet of things.

A new class of provably capacity achieving error-correction codes, polar codes are suitable for many problems, such as lossless and lossy source coding, problems with side information, multiple access channel, etc.

This book presents ways of interfacing sensors to the digital world, and discusses the marriage between sensor systems and the IoT: the opportunities and challenges.

This book showcases the state of the art in the field of sensors and microsystems, revealing the impressive potential of novel methodologies and technologies.

This book explores integrated gate drivers with emphasis on new gallium nitride (GaN) power transistors, which offer fast switching along with minimum switching losses.

This book provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to physical inspection-based approaches for electronics security.

This book provides its readers with the means to implement energy-efficient video systems, by using different optimization approaches at multiple abstraction levels.

This book is a step-by-step tutorial on how to design a low-power, high-resolution (not less than 12 bit), and high-speed (not less than 200 MSps) integrated CMOS analog-to-digital (AD) converter, to respond to the challenge from the rapid growth of IoT.

This fourth book in the series Silicon Photonics gathers together reviews of recent advances in the field of silicon photonics that go beyond already established and applied concepts in this technology.

This book gives a detailed analysis of switched-capacitor DC-DC converters that are entirely integrated on a single chip and establishes that these converters are mainly limited by the large parasitic coupling, the low capacitor energy density, and the fact that switched-capacitor converter topologies only have a fixed voltage conversion ratio.

This book explores energy efficiency techniques for high-performance computing (HPC) systems using power-management methods.

This is a textbook for upper undergraduate and graduate courses on microwave engineering, written in a student-friendly manner with many diagrams and illustrations.

This textbook provides a starter's guide to VHDL.

This book introduces readers to a reconfigurable chip architecture for future wireless communication systems, such as 5G and beyond.

This book discusses the development of promising technologies for compact antennas for high data-rate communications.

Until now, there has been a lack of a complete knowledge base to fully comprehend Low power (LP) design and power aware (PA) verification techniques and methodologies and deploy them all together in a real design verification and implementation project.

This book discusses the advantages and challenges of Body-Biasing for integrated circuits and systems, together with the deployment of the design infrastructure needed to generate this Body-Bias voltage.

This book presents the state-of-the-art and breakthrough innovations in design automation for cyber-physical systems.

Just like electricity, Machine Learning will revolutionize our life in many ways - some of which are not even conceivable today.

This book discusses reliability applications for power systems, renewable energy and smart grids and highlights trends in reliable communication, fault-tolerant systems, VLSI system design and embedded systems.

This book covers two main topics: First, novel fast and flexible simulation techniques for modern heterogeneous NoC-based multi-core architectures.

This book describes the design and realization of analog fractional-order circuits, which are suitable for on-chip implementation, capable of low-voltage operation and electronic adjustment of their characteristics.

This book offers readers an easy introduction into quantum computing as well as into the design for corresponding devices.

This book describes the physical operation of the Tunnel Field-effect Transistor (TFET) and circuits built with this device.

This book presents device design, layout design, FEM analysis, device fabrication, and packaging and testing of MEMS-based piezoelectric vibration energy harvesters.

This book brings together selective and specific chapters on nanoscale carbon and applications, thus making it unique due to its thematic content.

This book is devoted to advanced materials and perspective sensors, which is one of the most important problems in nanotechnology and security.

This book focuses on computing devices and their design at various levels to combat variability.

This thesis provides a thorough noise analysis for conventional CIS readout chains, while also presenting and discussing a variety of noise reduction techniques that allow the read noise in standard processes to be optimized.