Based on a course given to beginning physics, chemistry, and engineering students at the Winterthur Polytechnic Institute, this text approaches the fundamentals of thermodynamics from the view of continuum mechanics.
Shortly after the establishment of the Brown Boveri Research Center in 1967, plans were developed to organize a series of Brown Boveri Scientific Symposia, each hav- ing a different topic, to be held every other year in Baden.
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John Eargle's 4th edition of The Handbook of Recording Engineering is the latest version of his long-time classic hands-on book for aspiring recording engineers.
Applications of Neural Networks gives a detailed description of 13 practical applications of neural networks, selected because the tasks performed by the neural networks are real and significant.
Signal Processing for Computer Vision is a unique and thorough treatment of the signal processing aspects of filters and operators for low-level computer vision.
Frequency Compensation Techniques for Low-Power Operational Amplifiers is intended for professional designers of integrated amplifiers, emphasizing low-voltage and low-power solutions.
Logic synthesis has become a fundamental component of the ASIC design flow, and Logic Synthesis Using Synopsys(R) has been written for all those who dislike reading manuals but who still like to learn logic synthesis as practised in the real world.
On Optimal Interconnections for VLSI describes, from a geometric perspective, algorithms for high-performance, high-density interconnections during the global and detailed routing phases of circuit layout.
Digital image business applications are expanding rapidly, driven by recent advances in the technology and breakthroughs in the price and performance of hardware and firmware.
Image and Video Compression Standards: Algorithms and Architectures presents an introduction to the algorithms and architectures that underpin the image and video compression standards, including JPEG (compression of still images), H.
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Basic Concepts in Information Theory and Coding is an outgrowth of a one- semester introductory course that has been taught at the University of Southern California since the mid-1960s.
A Designer's Guide to VHDL Synthesis is intended for both design engineers who want to use VHDL-based logic synthesis ASICs and for managers who need to gain a practical understanding of the issues involved in using this technology.
The field of single charge tunneling comprises of phenomena where the tunneling of a microscopic charge, usually carried by an electron or a Cooper pair, leads to macro- scopically observable effects.
After alm ost three scores of years of basic and applied research, the field of speech processing is, at present, undergoing a rapid growth in terms of both performance and applications and this is fueHed by the advances being made in the areas of microelectronics, computation and algorithm design.
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Computer-aided synthesis of digital circuits from behavioral level specifications offers an effective means to deal with increasing complexity of digital hardware design.
The motivation for starting the work described in this book was the interest that Hewlett-Packard's microwave circuit designers had in simulation techniques that could tackle the problem of finding steady- state solutions for nonlinear circuits, particularly circuits containing distributed elements such as transmission lines.
Artificial neural networks possess several properties that make them particularly attractive for applications to modelling and control of complex non-linear systems.
Design of Low-Voltage, Low-Power CMOS Operational Amplifier Cells describes the theory and design of the circuit elements that are required to realize a low-voltage, low-power operational amplifier.
** XVII Acknowledgments CHAPTER 1 Verilog - A Tutorial Introduction 1 Getting Started 2 A Structural Description 2 Simulating the NAND Latch 4 Module Hleral'Chy 6 The Counter 7 Components of the Counter 9 A Clock for the System 10 Tying the Whole Circuit Together 11 Using An Alternate Description of the Flip Flop 13 Behavioral Modeling 1 S A Behavioral Model of the m16 Counter 16 Mixing Structure and Behavior 18 Assignment Statements 22 Summary on Mixing Behavioral and Structural Descriptions 23 Creating a Testbench For a Module 24 Summary 2S Tutorial Guide to Formal Syntax Specification 26 Exercises 30 CHAPTER 2 Behavioral Modeling 33 Process Model 33 If-Then-Else 3S Where Does The ELSE Belong?
