Electronics: circuits and components

This book describes the basic principles of designing and modelling inductors, MIM capacitors and coplanar waveguides at frequencies of several tens of GHz.

This book details an approach for realization of the field decomposition concept.

This book provides readers with basic principles of the electrochemistry of the electrodes used in modern, implantable neural prostheses.

This book covers a range of devices that use piezoelectricity to convert mechanical deformation into electrical energy and relates their output capabilities to a range of potential applications.

This book describes the state-of-the-art in trusted computing for embedded systems.

This book describes automated debugging approaches for the bugs and the faults which appear in different abstraction levels of a hardware system.

This book serves as a hands-on guide to RF tunable devices, circuits and subsystems.

This book contains reviews of recent experimental and theoretical results related to nanomaterials.

This book offers readers a set of new approaches and tools a set of tools and techniques for facing challenges in parallelization with design of embedded systems.

This book introduces a new level of abstraction that closes the gap between the textual specification of embedded systems and the executable model at the Electronic System Level (ESL).

This book provides a comprehensive overview of both theoretical and pragmatic aspects of resource-allocation and scheduling in multiprocessor and multicore hard-real-time systems.

This book serves as a single-source reference to Current Conveyors and their use in modern Analog Circuit Design.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems, NDES 2014, held in Albena, Bulgaria, in July 2014.

This book reveals why carbon is playing such an increasingly prominent role as a sensing material.

This book provides readers with a variety of tools to address the challenges posed by hot carrier degradation, one of today's most complicated reliability issues in semiconductor devices.

This book investigates the possible circuit solutions to overcome the temperature and supply voltage-sensitivity of fully-integrated time references for ultra-low-power communication in wireless sensor networks.

This book describes a comprehensive framework for hardware/software co-design, optimization, and use of robust, low-cost, and cyberphysical digital microfluidic systems.

This book describes the trends, challenges and solutions in computing use for scientific research and development within different domains in Africa, such as health, agriculture, environment, economy, energy, education and engineering.

The automobile is going through the biggest transformation in its history.

This book provides an invaluable reference to Piezoelectric Accelerometers with Integral Electronics (IEPE).

This book presents a wide-band and technology independent, SPICE-compatible RLC model for through-silicon vias (TSVs) in 3D integrated circuits.

This book describes recent breakthroughs that promise major cost reductions in solar energy production in a clear and highly accessible manner.

This book is based on the 18 tutorials presented during the 23rd workshop on Advances in Analog Circuit Design.

This book gives a comprehensive overview of the medium access control (MAC) principles in cognitive radio networks, with a specific focus on how such MAC principles enable different wireless systems to coexist in the same spectrum band and carry out spectrum sharing.

This book is intended for readers who already have knowledge of devices and circuits for radio-frequency (RF) and microwave communication and are ready to study the systems engineering-level aspects of modern radio communications systems.

This book covers system-level design optimization and implementation of hybrid energy storage systems.

Ge and III-V compounds, semiconductors with high carrier mobilities, are candidates to replace Si as the channel in MOS devices.

This book is a comprehensive guide to assertion-based verification of hardware designs using System Verilog Assertions (SVA).

This book addresses the challenges and design trade-offs arising during the hardware design of Faster-than-Nyquist (FTN) signaling transceivers.

This book provides developers, engineers, researchers and students with detailed knowledge about the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard.

This book serves as a practical guide for practicing engineers who need to design embedded systems for high-speed data acquisition and control systems.

This book analyzes the challenges in verifying Dynamically Reconfigurable Systems (DRS) with respect to the user design and the physical implementation of such systems.

This book gives a survey of the current state of the art of a special class of nitrides semiconductors, Wurtzite Nitride and Oxide Semiconductors.

This book includes a set of rigorously reviewed world-class manuscripts addressing and detailing state-of-the-art research projects in the areas of Computer Science, Informatics, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering.

The aim of this book is to explain to high-performance computing (HPC) developers how to utilize the Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) series products efficiently.

This book presents the cross-layer design and optimization of wake-up receivers for wireless body area networks (WBAN), with an emphasis on low-power circuit design.

This book introduces a novel transcoding algorithm for real time video applications, designed to overcome inter-operability problems between MPEG-2 to H.

This brief provides a source of instruction from which students can be taught about the practicalities of designing and using chaotic circuits.

This book describes techniques for realizing wide bandwidth (125MHz) over-sampled analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) in nano meter-CMOS processes.

Innovations and Advances in Computing, Informatics, Systems Sciences, Networking and Engineering This book includes a set of rigorously reviewed world-class manuscripts addressing and detailing state-of-the-art research projects in the areas of Computer Science, Informatics, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering.

This book describes an approach and supporting infrastructure to facilitate debugging the silicon implementation of a System-on-Chip (SOC), allowing its associated product to be introduced into the market more quickly.

This book brings together a selection of the best papers from the sixteenth edition of the Forum on specification and Design Languages Conference (FDL), which was held in September 2013 in Paris, France.

This book describes fault tolerance techniques based on software and hardware to create hybrid techniques.

Electricity is all around us: cars, telephones, computers, lights -- the modern world runs entirely on electrons.

This book explores the design of ultra wideband (UWB) technology for wireless body-area networks (WBAN).

This book describes scalable and near-optimal, processor-level design space exploration (DSE) methodologies.

This book is structured as a step-by-step course of study along the lines of a VLSI integrated circuit design project.

The 3rd edition of Controlling Radiated Emissions by Design has been updated to reflect the latest changes in the field.

The book is composed of two parts.

This book provides a thorough overview of cutting-edge research on electronics applications relevant to industry, the environment and society at large.