Electronics: circuits and components

This book provides readers with a comprehensive review of the state of the art in error control for Network on Chip (NOC) links.

Since register transfer level (RTL) design is less about being a bright engineer, and more about knowing the downstream implications of your work, this book explains the impact of design decisions taken that may give rise later in the product lifecycle to issues related to testability, data synchronization across clock domains, synthesizability, power consumption, routability, etc.

There is much excitement in the design and verification community about assertion-based design.

Silicon-on-Insulator Technology: Materials to VLSI, Third Edition, retraces the evolution of SOI materials, devices and circuits over a period of roughly twenty years.

The role of arithmetic in datapath design in VLSI design has been increasing in importance over the last several years due to the demand for processors that are smaller, faster, and dissipate less power.

MEMS-based Circuits and Systems for Wireless Communications provides comprehensive coverage of RF-MEMS technology from device to system level.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to embedded systems for smart appliances and energy management, bringing together for the first time a multidisciplinary blend of topics from embedded systems, information technology and power engineering.

Analog circuit design is often the bottleneck when designing mixed analog-digital systems.

Accelerator Data-Path Synthesis for High-Throughput Signal Processing Applications is the first book to show how to use high-level synthesis techniques to cope with the stringent timing requirements of complex high-throughput real-time signal and data processing.

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

A Practical Guide to Analog Behavioral Modeling for IC System Design presents a methodology for abstracting an IC system so that the designer can gain a macroscopic view of how sub-systems interact, as well as verify system functionality in various applications before committing to a design.

This book tackles head-on the challenges of digital design in the era of billion-transistor SoCs.

Large system complexities and operation under tight timing constraints in rapidly shrinking technologies have made it extremely important to ensure correct temporal behavior of modern-day digital circuits, both before and after fabrication.

Advanced Low-Power Digital Circuit Techniques presents several novel high performance digital circuit designs that emphasize low-power and low-voltage operation.

This book describes the state-of-the-art in RF, analog, and mixed-signal circuit design for Software Defined Radio (SDR).

The field of electronic packaging continues to grow at an amazing rate.

The roots of this book, and of the new research field that it defines, lie in the scaling of VLSI technology.

This book presents models and procedures to design pipeline analog-to-digital converters, compensating for device inaccuracies, so that high-performance specs can be met within short design cycles.

This book describes the structured design and optimization of efficient, energy processing integrated circuits.

This book surveys the advanced simulation methods needed for proper modeling of state-of-the-art nanoscale devices.

This book serves as a reference for researchers and designers in Embedded Systems who need to explore design alternatives.

Verification of real-time requirements in systems-on-chip becomes more complex as more applications are integrated.

Research on real-time Java technology has been prolific over the past decade, leading to a large number of corresponding hardware and software solutions, and frameworks for distributed and embedded real-time Java systems.

This book gives a comprehensive introduction to the design challenges of MPSoC platforms, focusing on early design space exploration.

This book describes the synthesis of logic functions using memories.

This book provides the foundations for understanding hardware security and trust, which have become major concerns for national security over the past decade.

The purpose of this book is to survey the state of the art and evolving directions in post-silicon and runtime verification.

Yield and reliability of memories have degraded with device and voltage scaling in the nano-scale era, due to ever-increasing hard/soft errors and device parameter variations.

This book presents a new exploration environment for mesh-based, heterogeneous FPGA architectures.

This book describes methods for distributing power in high speed, high complexity integrated circuits with power levels exceeding many tens of watts and power supplies below a volt.

The general trend of modern network devices towards greater intelligence and programmability is accelerating the development of systems that are increasingly autonomous and to a certain degree self-managing.

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of CMOS circuits for passive wireless microsystems.

"e;This book is a comprehensive text for the design of safety critical, hard real-time embedded systems.

This book introduces a novel design methodology which can significantly reduce the ASIP development effort through high degrees of design automation.

This book will introduce new techniques for detecting and diagnosing small-delay defects in integrated circuits.

This book presents the research challenges that are due to the introduction of the 3rd dimension in chips for researchers and covers the whole architectural design approach for 3D-SoCs.

This book is about large-scale electronic circuits design driven by nanotechnology, where nanotechnology is broadly defined as building circuits using nanoscale devices that are either implemented with nanomaterials (e.

Embedded systems applications that are either mission or safety-critical usually entail low- to mid- production volumes, require the rapid development of specific tasks, which are typically computing intensive, and are cost bounded.

Kinetic energy harvesting converts movement or vibrations into electrical energy, enables battery free operation of wireless sensors and autonomous devices and facilitates their placement in locations where replacing a battery is not feasible or attractive.

This book provides an in-depth overview of on chip instrumentation technologies and various approaches taken in adding instrumentation to System on Chip (ASIC, ASSP, FPGA, etc.

This book deals with energy delivery challenges of the power processing unit of modern computer microprocessors.

This book is about digital system testing and testable design.

Sensor networks are meant to create awareness in space and time.

This book covers recent advances in the field of logic synthesis and design, including Boolean Matching, Logic Decomposition, Boolean satisfiability, Advanced Synthesis Techniques and Applications of Logic Design.

This textbook is written for junior/senior undergraduate and first-year graduate students in the electrical and computer engineering departments.

Design considerations for low-power operations and robustness with respect to variations typically impose contradictory requirements.

Embedded processors are the heart of embedded systems.

As diverse as tomorrow's society constituent groups may be, they will share the common requirements that their life should become safer and healthier, offering higher levels of effectiveness, communication and personal freedom.

Ultra-thin chips are the "e;smart skin"e; of a conventional silicon chip.

This book presents a new set of embedded system design techniques called multidimensional data flow, which combine the various benefits offered by existing methodologies such as block-based system design, high-level simulation, system analysis and polyhedral optimization.