Electronics: circuits and components

This book discusses semiconductor properties, pn-junctions and the physical phenomena for understanding power devices in depth.

This book provides information regarding spectrum sharing between wireless systems, motivated by emerging new technologies.

This book presents a modified model reference adaptive system (MRAS) observer for sensorless vector control of a wind driven doubly fed induction generator (DFIG).

This book provides an introduction to digital storage for consumer electronics.

Implantable sensing, whether used for transient or long-term monitoring of in vivo physiological, bio-electrical, bio-chemical and metabolic changes, is a rapidly advancing field of research and development.

This book covers essential topics in the architecture and design of Internet of Things (IoT) systems.

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.

This book describes the algorithms and computer architectures used to create and analyze photographs in modern digital cameras.

This book discusses analysis, design and optimization techniques for streaming multiprocessor systems, while satisfying a given area, performance, and energy budget.

This book shares the knowledge of active and prestigious worldwide researchers and scholars in the field of healthcare monitoring as authors investigate historical developments, summarize latest advancements, and envision future prospects on wearable, attachable, and invisible devices that monitor diverse physiological information.

This book describes the physics of phase change memory devices, starting from basic operation to reliability issues.

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

This book describes the physical basis of microwave electronics and related topics, such as microwave vacuum and microwave semiconductor devices.

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.

This book, for the first time, provides comprehensive coverage on malicious modification of electronic hardware, also known as, hardware Trojan attacks, highlighting the evolution of the threat, different attack modalities, the challenges, and diverse array of defense approaches.

This fully updated textbook provides complete coverage of electrical circuits and introduces students to the field of energy conversion technologies, analysis and design.

This book provides wide knowledge about designing FPGA-based heterogeneous computing systems, using a high-level design environment based on OpenCL (Open Computing language), which is called OpenCL for FPGA.

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 provides a comprehensive analysis of the science, technology, and applications of Tantalum and Niobium-based capacitors.

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 provides the most comprehensive and consistent survey of the field of IC design for Biological Sensing and Processing.

This book presents a holistic view on compiler assisted practical secure multi-party computation (MPC) over Boolean circuits.

This course-based text revisits classic concepts in nonlinear circuit theory from a very much introductory point of view: the presentation is completely self-contained and does not assume any prior knowledge of circuit theory.

This book provides a single-source reference to the state-of-the-art in logic synthesis.

This brief provides an overview on the most relevant nonlinear phenomena in internal combustion engines with a particular emphasis on the use of nonlinear circuits in their modelling and control.

This book contains extended and revised versions of the best papers presented at the 24th IFIP WG 10.

This volume of the Lecture Notes in Mobility series contains papers written by speakers and poster presenters at the 21st International Forum on Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications (AMAA 2017) "e;Smart Systems Transforming the Automobile"e; that was held in Berlin, Germany in September 2017.

This textbook covers digital design, fundamentals of computer architecture, and assembly language.

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 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 book discusses both architecture- and circuit-level design aspects of voltage-controlled-oscillator (VCO)-based analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), especially focusing on mitigation of VCO nonlinearity and the improvement of power efficiency.

This book provides readers with a single-source guide to fabricate, characterize and model memristor devices for sensing applications.

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 focuses on system dependability modeling and calculation, considering the impact of s-dependency and uncertainty.

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

This is the story of Bernie Mills, Chris Christiansen, Paul Wild and Ron Bracewell, members of a team of radio astronomers that would lead Australia, and the world, into this new field of research.

The book presents the conception and realization of a pervasive electronic architecture for electrochemical applications, focusing on electronic instrumentation design and device development, particularly in electrochemical Point-of-Care and Lab-on-a-Chip devices, covering examples based on amperometric (DC) and impedance detection (AC) techniques.

This book presents techniques necessary to predict cardiac arrhythmias, long before they occur, based on minimal ECG data.

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

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 book brings together a selection of the best papers from the nineteenth edition of the Forum on specification and Design Languages Conference (FDL), which took place on September 14-16, 2016, in Bremen, Germany.

This book presents the technology of millimetre waves and Terahertz (THz) antennas.

This book discusses the design and implementation of energy harvesting systems targeting wearable devices.

This book describes the design and implementation of energy-efficient smart (digital output) temperature sensors in CMOS technology.

This book provides a detailed review of millimeter-wave power amplifiers, discussing design issues and performance limitations commonly encountered in light of the latest research.

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 book describes a novel, efficient and powerful scheme for designing and evaluating the performance characteristics of any electronic filter designed with predefined specifications.

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 describes algorithmic methods and hardware implementations that aim to help realize the promise of Compressed Sensing (CS), namely the ability to reconstruct high-dimensional signals from a properly chosen low-dimensional "e;portrait"e;.

This book is based on the 18 tutorials presented during the 26th workshop on Advances in Analog Circuit Design.