Electronics: circuits and components

This book is intended for readers who are interested in the design of robust and reliable electronic digital systems.

This book guides readers through the entire complex of interrelated theoretical and practical aspects of the end-to-end design and organization of production of silicon submicron integrated circuits.

This book guides readers through the design of hardware architectures using VHDL for digital communication and image processing applications that require performance computing.

This book describes the essential requirements for the realization of neuromorphic systems, where memristive devices play a key role.

This book highlights several gaps that have not been addressed in existing cyber security research.

To meet the demands of students, scientists and engineers for a systematic reference source, this book introduces, comprehensively and in a single voice, research and development progress in emerging metamaterials and derived functional metadevices.

The book reports on cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) theories and methods aimed at the control and coordination of agents acting and moving in a dynamic environment.

This textbook describes the basic physics of semiconductors, including the hierarchy of transport models, and connects the theory with the functioning of actual semiconductor devices.

This thesis describes the fabrication of metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) structures using very high permittivity dielectrics (based on rare earths) grown by high-pressure sputtering from metallic targets.

This contributed volume offers practical solutions and design-, modeling-, and implementation-related insights that address current research problems in memristors, memristive devices, and memristor computing.

This book describes a new, coarse-grained reconfigurable architecture (CGRA), called Blocks, and puts it in the context of computer architectures, and in particular of other CGRAs.

This book features influential scholarly research and technical contributions, professional trajectories, disciplinary shifts, personal insights, and a combination of these from a group of remarkable women within mechanical engineering.

This book describes the technology of charge-trapping non-volatile memories and their uses.

This book offers an in-depth technical presentation of photography and details about the inner workings of the digital camera, while keeping the artistic principles in mind.

The book Handheld Total Chemical and Biological Analysis Systems: Bridging NMR, Digital Microfluidics, and Semiconductors centers on the complete design of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) microsystems for in vitro chemical and biological assays based on semiconductor chips and portable magnet.

This book reports on the latest scientific achievements on robot kinematics provided by the prominent researchers participating in the 18th International Symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics ARK2022, organized in the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain.

This book provides a comprehensive, single-source on resonant switched-capacitor converters.

This textbook for a one-semester course in Digital Systems Design describes the basic methods used to develop "e;traditional"e; Digital Systems, based on the use of logic gates and flip flops, as well as more advanced techniques that enable the design of very large circuits, based on Hardware Description Languages and Synthesis tools.

This book describes the concept and design of the capacitively-coupled chopper technique, which can be used in precision analog amplifiers.

This book studies electron resonant tunneling in two- and three-dimensional quantum waveguides of variable cross-sections in the time-independent approach.

This book is primarily designed to serve as a textbook for undergraduate students of electrical, electronics, and computer engineering, but can also be used for primer courses across other disciplines of engineering and related sciences.

Distributed Coordination Theory for Robot Teams develops control algorithms to coordinate the motion of autonomous teams of robots in order to achieve some desired collective goal.

This book provides an introduction to the emerging area of "e;Brain-Machine Interfaces,"e; with emphasis on the operation and practical design aspects.

This book comprises the latest achievements in research and development in educational robotics presented at the 12th International Conference on Robotics in Education (RiE), which was carried out as a purely virtual conference from April 28 to 30, 2021.

This book comprehensively covers the state-of-the-art security applications of machine learning techniques.

This book discusses wireless communication systems from a transceiver and digital signal processing perspective.

This book provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in optical contactless probing approaches, in order to fill a gap in the literature on VLSI Testing.

The complexity of modern chip design requires extensive use of specialized software throughout the process.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of electromigration and its effects on the reliability of electronic circuits.

This book describes the bottleneck faced soon by designers of traditional CMOS devices, due to device scaling, power and energy consumption, and variability limitations.

This book serves as a single-source reference to the latest advances in Approximate Computing (AxC), a promising technique for increasing performance or reducing the cost and power consumption of a computing system.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems, MESAS 2020, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in October 2020.

This book includes papers presented at the International Conference "e;Educational Robotics in the Maker Era - EDUROBOTICS 2020"e;, Online, February 2021.

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

This book introduces a family of new methods for accurate and robust spectral testing and fills an information gap, as the requirements in standard test have grown increasingly challenging in recent high precision testing, especially as the device performance has continued to improve.

This book focuses on two of the most relevant problems related to power management on multicore and manycore systems.

Humans rely on their sense of touch to perceive subtle movements and micro slippages to manipulate an impressive range of objects.

This book provides readers with a valuable guide to understanding security and the interplay of computer science, microfluidics, and biochemistry in a biochip cyberphysical system (CPS).

This textbook provides semester-length coverage of computer architecture and design, providing a strong foundation for students to understand modern computer system architecture and to apply these insights and principles to future computer designs.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems, MESAS 2021, held as a virtual event due COVID-19, in October 2021.

This book is the first standalone book that combines research into low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) with research into millimeter-wave circuits.

This book is dedicated to field emission electronics, a promising field at the interface between "e;classic"e; vacuum electronics and nanotechnology.

This volume provides a comprehensive reference for graduate students and professionals in both academia and industry on the fundamentals, processing details, and applications of 3D microelectronic packaging, an industry trend for future microelectronic packages.

This textbook fills a gap to supply students with the fundamental principles and tools they need to perform the quantitative analyses of the neuroelectrophysiological approaches, including both conventional and emerging ones, prevalently used in neuroscience research and neuroprosthetics.

This book consolidates some of the most promising advanced smart grid functionalities and provides a comprehensive set of guidelines for their implementation/evaluation using DIgSILENT Power Factory.

This book contains a selection of papers accepted for presentation and discussion at ROBOT 2022-Fifth Iberian Robotics Conference, held in Zaragoza, Spain, on November 23-25, 2022.

This book examines the critical differences between current and next-generation Si technologies (CMOS, BiCMOS and SiC) and technology platforms (e.

This book presents innovative strategies to implement ultra-low voltage (ULV) and low power active circuits used in low energy RF receivers.

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the design of security-hardened, hardware intellectual property (IP).