Electronics: circuits and components

Analog Circuit Design contains the contribution of 18 tutorials of the 17th workshop on Advances in Analog Circuit Design.

Understanding brain structure and principles of operation is one of the major challengesofmodernscience.

Omnidirectional Inductive Powering for Biomedical Implants investigates the feasibility of inductive powering for capsule endoscopy and freely moving systems in general.

ESL or "e;Electronic System Level"e; is a buzz word these days, in the electronic design automation (EDA) industry, in design houses, and in the academia.

Low-Power High-Speed ADCs for Nanometer CMOS Integration is about the design and implementation of ADC in nanometer CMOS processes that achieve lower power consumption for a given speed and resolution than previous designs, through architectural and circuit innovations that take advantage of unique features of nanometer CMOS processes.

Verilog and its usage has come a long way since its original invention in the mid-80s by Phil Moorby.

Computers are everywhere around us.

Low Power UWB CMOS Radar Sensors deals with the problem of designing low cost CMOS radar sensors.

Second in the series, Practical Aspects of Embedded System Design using Microcontrollers emphasizes the same philosophy of "e;Learning by Doing"e; and "e;Hands on Approach"e; with the application oriented case studies developed around the PIC16F877 and AT 89S52, today's most popular microcontrollers.

Nowadays it is hard to find an electronic device which does not use codes: for example, we listen to music via heavily encoded audio CD's and we watch movies via encoded DVD's.

CMOS SRAM Circuit Design and Parametric Test in Nano-Scaled Technologies covers a broad range of topics related to SRAM design and test.

ESD Protection Device and Circuit Design for Advanced CMOS Technologies is intended for practicing engineers working in the areas of circuit design, VLSI reliability and testing domains.

FDL is the most important European and, probably, worldwide forum to present research results, to exchange experiences, and to learn about new trends in the application of specification and design languages and the associated design and modeling methods and tools for complex, heterogeneous HW/SW embedded systems.

Analog Circuit Design is based on the yearly Advances in Analog Circuit Design workshop.

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Substrate noise coupling in integrated circuits (ICs) is the process by which int- ference signals in the form of voltage and current glitches cause parasitic currents to ?

High-Resolution IF-to-Baseband SigmaDelta ADC for Car Radios addresses the theory, system level design and circuit implementation of a high-resolution continuous-time IF-to-baseband quadrature SigmaDelta ADC.

Modern RF receivers and transmitters require quadrature oscillators with accurate quadrature and low phase-noise.

Structured Analog CMOS Design describes a structured analog design approach that makes it possible to simplify complex analog design problems and develop a design strategy that can be used for the design of large number of analog cells.

Assertion-based design is a powerful new paradigm that is facilitating quality improvement in electronic design.

As the feature size decreases in deep sub-micron designs, coupling capacitance becomes the dominant factor in total capacitance.

SystemC Kernel Extensions for Heterogeneous System Modeling is a result of an almost two year endeavour on our part to understand how SystemC can be made useful for system level modeling at higher levels of abstraction.

This book examines the issue of design of fully integrated frequency synthesizers suitable for system-on-a-chip (SOC) processors.

Power consumption is a key limitation in many high-speed and high-data-rate electronic systems today, ranging from mobile telecom to portable and desktop computing systems, especially when moving to nanometer technologies.

One of the grand challenges in the nano-scopic computing era is guarantees of robustness.

Cell-based design methodologies have dominated layout generation of digital circuits.

Improving the performance of the power amplifier is the most pressing problem facing designers of modern radio-frequency (RF) transceivers.

CMOS PLLs and VCOs for 4G Wireless is the first book devoted to the subject of CMOS PLL and VCO design for future broadband 4th generation wireless devices.

Perhaps nothing characterizes the inherent heterogeneity in embedded sys- tems than the ability to choose between hardware and software implementations of a given system function.

The Verilog Hardware Description Language (Verilog-HDL) has long been the most popular language for describing complex digital hardware.

Regular Fabrics in Deep Sub-Micron Integrated-Circuit Design discusses new approaches to better timing-closure and manufacturability of DSM Integrated Circuits.

"e;As chip size and complexity continues to grow exponentially, the challenges of functional verification are becoming a critical issue in the electronics industry.

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Functional Verification Coverage Measurement and Analysis addresses a means of quantitatively assessing functional verification progress.

I am glad to see this new book on the e language and on verification.

Statistical timing analysis is an area of growing importance in nanometer te- nologies as the uncertainties associated with process and environmental var- tions increase and this chapter has captured some of the major efforts in this area.

An Introduction to Surface-Micromachining provides for the first time a unified view of surface-micromachining.

This book is on digital system design for programmable devices, such as FPGAs, CPLDs, and PALs.

Contributions on UML address the application of UML in the specification of embedded HW/SW systems.

The idea of writing a book on CMOS imaging has been brewing for several years.

Systematic Design of Sigma-Delta Analog-to-Digital Converters describes the issues related to the sigma-delta analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) design in a systematic manner: from the top level of abstraction represented by the filters defining signal and noise transfer functions (STF, NTF), passing through the architecture level where topology-related performance is calculated and simulated, and finally down to parameters of circuit elements like resistors, capacitors, and amplifier transconductances used in individual integrators.

Design of System on a Chip is the first of two volumes addressing the design challenges associated with new generations of the semiconductor technology.

Computer Methods for Analysis of Mixed-Mode Switching Circuits provides an in-depth treatment of the principles and implementation details of computer methods and numerical algorithms for analysis of mixed-mode switching circuits.

Synthesis and Optimization of DSP Algorithms describes approaches taken to synthesising structural hardware descriptions of digital circuits from high-level descriptions of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) algorithms.

Professional Verification is a guide to advanced functional verification in the nanometer era.

Rapid advances in microelectronic integration and the advent of Systems-on-Chip have fueled the need for high-level synthesis, i.

In Interconnect-centric Design for Advanced SoC and NoC, we have tried to create a comprehensive understanding about on-chip interconnect characteristics, design methodologies, layered views on different abstraction levels and finally about applying the interconnect-centric design in system-on-chip design.

Design and Modeling of Millimeter-wave CMOS Circuits for Wireless Transceivers describes in detail some of the interesting developments in CMOS millimetre-wave circuit design.

The main intention of this book is to give an impression of the state of the art in energy-aware task-scheduling-related issues for very dynamic emb- ded real-time processing applications.