Electronics and communications engineering

Richly illustrated in full color, this textbook introduces you to the fascinating world of analog electronics, where fields, circuits, signals and systems, and semiconductors meet.

The capability modeling and simulation (M&S) supplies for managing systems complexity and investigating systems behaviors has made it a central activity in the development of new and existing systems.

Microsystems technologies have found their way into an impressive variety of applications, from mobile phones, computers, and displays to smart grids, electric cars, and space shuttles.

Nanoscale memories are used everywhere.

Comprising two volumes, Thermoelectrics and Its Energy Harvesting reviews the dramatic improvements in technology and application of thermoelectric energy with a specific intention to reduce and reuse waste heat and improve novel techniques for the efficient acquisition and use of energy.

This book explores digital audio effects relevant to audio signal processing and music informatics.

Trained to extract actionable information from large volumes of high-dimensional data, engineers and scientists often have trouble isolating meaningful low-dimensional structures hidden in their high-dimensional observations.

This reference offers tools for engineers, scientists, biologists, and others working with the computational techniques of nanophotonics.

The predominant language used in embedded microprocessors, assembly language lets you write programs that are typically faster and more compact than programs written in a high-level language and provide greater control over the program applications.

Nanoelectronic Device Applications Handbook gives a comprehensive snapshot of the state of the art in nanodevices for nanoelectronics applications.

"e;This evidence-based book provides the framework and guidelines that professionals need for working with the contemporary explosion of data that is creating opportunities and challenges to all phases of our society and commerce.

From officially sanctioned, high-tech operations to budget spy cameras and cell phone video, this updated and expanded edition of a bestselling handbook reflects the rapid and significant growth of the surveillance industry.

Program management is a rapidly emerging offshoot of project management.

Ergonomics often seems to be involved too late in commercial project development processes to have substantive impact on design and usability.

Human-Robot Interaction in Social Robotics explores important issues in designing a robot system that works with people in everyday environments.

In an approach that combines coverage of safety and human error into a single volume, Safety and Human Error in Engineering Systems eliminates the need to consult many different and diverse sources for those who need information about both topics.

Ushering in the next technological era, this state-of-the-art book focuses on the instrumentation and experiments emerging at the picometer scale.

With the advent of wavelength routing and dynamic, reconfigurable optical networks, new demands are being made in the design and operation of optical amplifiers.

Welcome to the world of Verilog!

The Verilog language is a hardware description language which provides a means of specifying a digital system at a wide range of levels of abstraction.

Microprocessors have come a long way since their conception.

Formal verification means having a mathematical model of a system, a language for specifying desired properties of the system in a concise, comprehensible and unambiguous way, and a method of proof to verify that the specified properties are satisfied.

Nanodroplets, the basis of complex and advanced nanostructures such as quantum rings, quantum dots and quantum dot clusters for future electronic and optoelectronic materials and devices, have attracted the interdisciplinary interest of chemists, physicists and engineers.

This book describes novel methods for network-on-chip (NoC) design, using source-synchronous high-speed resonant clocks.

Nanoencapsulation has the potential to improve human health through its capacity to both protect bioactive compounds and release them at a specific time and location into various substances, including food.

This book discusses the history of thermal heat generators and focuses on the potential for these processes using micro-electrical mechanical systems (MEMS) technology for this application.

This book presents the theory, analysis, and design of ultra-wideband (UWB) radar and sensor systems (in short, UWB systems) and their components.

In February of 1990, the balloting process for the IEEE proposed standard P1149.

This unique textbook takes the student from the initial steps in modeling a dynamic system through development of the mathematical models needed for feedback control.

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This book provides a multidisciplinary overview of the design and implementation of systems for remote patient monitoring and healthcare.

A modern and concise treatment of the solid state electronic devices that are fundamental to electronic systems and information technology is provided in this book.

This book provides an in-depth introduction to the newest technologies for designing wireless power transfer systems for medical applications.

This brief provides an overview of state-of-the-art sensing technologies relevant to the problem of precision irrigation, an emerging field within the domain of precision agriculture.

This book describes the most recent techniques for turbo decoder implementation, especially for 4G and beyond 4G applications.

A quantum dot molecule (QDM) is composed of two or more closely spaced quantum dots or "e;artificial atoms.

Soft City Culture and Technology: The Betaville Project discusses the complete cycle of conception, development, and deployment of the Betaville platform.

This book develops voltage-to-frequency converter (VFC) solutions integrated in standard CMOS technology to be used as a part of a microcontroller-based, multisensor interface in the environment of portable applications, particularly within a WSN node.

This book discusses various aspects, challenges, and solutions for developing systems-of-systems for situation awareness, using applications in the domain of maritime safety and security.

This book covers the use and development of software for astronomy.

This book examines the paradigm of the engineering design process.

Wireless Cortical Implantable Systems examines the design for data acquisition and transmission in cortical implants.

In this book the author examines 60 GHz and conventional UWB.

Editors Amy Neustein and Judith A.

Three dimensional (3D) optical geometries are becoming more common in the literature and lexicon of solar cells.

Team Cooperation in a Network of Multi-Vehicle Unmanned Systems develops a framework for modeling and control of a network of multi-agent unmanned systems in a cooperative manner and with consideration of non-ideal and practical considerations.

Sensors: An Introductory Course provides an essential reference on the fundamentals of sensors.

This book describes a unique approach to smart receiver system design.

In Monitoring Adaptive Spoken Dialog Systems, authors Alexander Schmitt and Wolfgang Minker investigate statistical approaches that allow for recognition of negative dialog patterns in Spoken Dialog Systems (SDS).

Soft Computing Approach to Pattern Classification and Object Recognition establishes an innovative, unified approach to supervised pattern classification and model-based occluded object recognition.