Electronics: circuits and components

This book offers the first comprehensive view on integrated circuit and system design for the Internet of Things (IoT), and in particular for the tiny nodes at its edge.

This book focuses on the theory and application of power switching components in power networks.

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 discusses efficient prediction techniques for the current state-of-the-art High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard, focusing on the compression of a wide range of video signals, such as 3D video, Light Fields and natural images.

This book provides readers with an overview of the design, fabrication, simulation, and reliability of nanoscale semiconductor devices, MEMS, and sensors, as they serve for realizing the next-generation internet of things.

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

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

This book is about security in embedded systems and it provides an authoritative reference to all aspects of security in system-on-chip (SoC) designs.

This book introduces readers to alternative approaches to designing efficient embedded systems using unconventional number systems.

This book addresses Software-Defined Radio (SDR) baseband processing from the computer architecture point of view, providing a detailed exploration of different computing platforms by classifying different approaches, highlighting the common features related to SDR requirements and by showing pros and cons of the proposed solutions.

This book presents new circuits and systems for implantable biomedical applications targeting neural recording.

This book offers a comprehensive, easy to understand guide for startup entities and developing companies, providing insight on the various sources of funding that are available, how these funding sources are useful at each stage of a company's development, and offers a comprehensive intellectual property strategy that parallels each stage of development.

This book provides an overview of current Intellectual Property (IP) based System-on-Chip (SoC) design methodology and highlights how security of IP can be compromised at various stages in the overall SoC design-fabrication-deployment cycle.

This book introduces readers to various threats faced during design and fabrication by today's integrated circuits (ICs) and systems.

This book describes new and effective methodologies for modeling, analyzing and mitigating cell-internal signal electromigration in nanoCMOS, with significant circuit lifetime improvements and no impact on performance, area and power.

This book presents original studies describing the latest research and developments in the area of reliability and systems engineering.

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

In this book new experimental investigations of properties of Josephson junctions and systems are explored with the help of recent developments in superconductivity.

This book shows readers how to design semiconductor devices using the most common and lowest cost logic CMOS processes.

The book is an authoritative collection of contributions by leading experts on the topics of fuzzy logic, multi-valued logic and neural network.

This textbook teaches in one, coherent presentation the three distinct topics of analysis of electronic circuits, mathematical numerical algorithms and coding in a software such as MATLAB(R).

This book provides students and practicing chip designers with an easy-to-follow yet thorough, introductory treatment of the most promising emerging memories under development in the industry.

This book presents a state-of-the-art technique for formal verification of continuous-time Simulink/Stateflow diagrams, featuring an expressive hybrid system modelling language, a powerful specification logic and deduction-based verification approach, and some impressive, realistic case studies.

This textbook provides a comprehensive, fully-updated introduction to the essentials of nanometer CMOS integrated circuits.

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

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of security in the widely adopted, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology.

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

This book presents theory and latest application work in Bond Graph methodology with a focus on:*      Hybrid dynamical system models,*      Model-based fault diagnosis, model-based fault tolerant control, fault prognosis*      and also addresses*      Open thermodynamic systems with compressible fluid flow,*      Distributed parameter models of mechanical subsystems.

This book provides readers a thorough understanding of the applicability of new-generation silicon-germanium (SiGe) electronic subsystems for electronic warfare and defensive countermeasures in military contexts.

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

This book puts in focus various techniques for checking modeling fidelity of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), with respect to the physical world they represent.

This book describes intuitive analog design approaches using digital inverters, providing filter architectures and circuit techniques enabling high performance analog circuit design.

This book contains extended and revised versions of the best papers presented at the 23rd IFIP WG 10.

This book focuses on prototyping aspects of concurrent control systems and their further implementation and partial reconfiguration in programmable devices.

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 describes a new concept for analyzing RF/microwave circuits, which includes RF/microwave antennas.

This book is a self-contained collection of recent research findings providing a comprehensive and systematic unified framework for both analysis and synthesis for singularly perturbed systems.

This book describes a new type of passive electronic components, called fractal elements, from a theoretical and practical point of view.

This second edition continues to be the most comprehensive review on the developments in advanced packaging technologies.

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 thesis introduces a successfully designed and commissioned intelligent health monitoring system, specifically for use on any industrial robot, which is able to predict the onset of faults in the joints of the geared transmissions.

This book introduces readers from diverse backgrounds to the principles underlying nanotechnology, from devices to systems, while also describing in detail how businesses can use nanotechnology to redesign their products and processes, in order to have a clear edge over their competition.

This book offers its readers a detailed overview of the synthesis of switched systems, with a focus on switching stabilization and intelligent control.

This book describes vector network analyzer measurements and uncertainty assessments, particularly in waveguide test-set environments, in order to establish their compatibility to the International System of Units (SI) for accurate and reliable characterization of communication networks.

This book contains the papers presented at the 20th anniversary edition of the AMAA conference held in Brussels, Belgium in 2016.

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 book provides a comprehensive introduction to hardware security, from specification to implementation.

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

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