Electrical engineering

The Electronic Properties Information Center has developed the Data Table as a precis of the most reliable information available for the physical, crystallographic, mechanical, thermal, electronic, magnetic and optical properties of a given material.

This survey is concerned with the use of silicon nitride in the semi- conductor and microelectronics industries.

The Fritz Haber Symposium on Methods of Laser Spectroscopy was held in Ein Bokek, Israel, on the shores of the Dead Sea, on December 16-20, 1985.

This volume (parts A and B) contains the edited papers presented at the annual Review of Progress in Quantitative NDE held at the University of California, San Diego, July 8-13, 1984.

The rapid development of powerful pulsed lasers is at the origin of a conside- rable interest in studying the response of an atom, a molecule (or a solid) to a strong electromagnetic field.

This book has evolved from our deep interest and involvement in the development and application of reliability evaluation techniques.

This book is about general infrared (IR) engineering, technology, practices, and principles as they apply to modem imaging systems.

In many university curricula, the power electronics field has evolved beyond the status of comprising one or two special-topics courses.

This book encompasses part of the papers presented at the Fifth International Symposium on Motor Control held in Varna, Bulgaria from 10 to 14 June 1985.

The 7th International Workshop in the series LASER INTERACTION AND RELATED PLASMA PHENOMENA continued the high standards established by the earlier meetings in this series.

This is a book about the bricks and mortar out of which are built those edifices that so well characterize late twentieth century industrial society- networks of computers and terminals.

It is now time for a comprehensive treatise to look at the whole field of electrochemistry.

Beginning in the mid 1980's, VLSI technology had begun to advance in two directions.

Techniques based on the method of modal expansions, the Rayleigh-Stevenson expansion in inverse powers of the wavelength, and also the method of moments solution of integral equations are essentially restricted to the analysis of electromagnetic radiating structures which are small in terms of the wavelength.

Intelligent Knowledge Based Systems in Electrical Power Engineering details how intelligent applications can be used in the power industry.

Intelligent Broadband Multimedia Networks is a non-mathematical, but highly systems oriented, coverage of modern intelligent information networks.

Improvement in the quality of integrated circuit designs and a designer's productivity can be achieved by a combination of two factors: Using more structured design methodologies for extensive reuse of existing components and subsystems.

Hadamard Matrix Analysis and Synthesis: With Applications to Communications and Signal/Image Processing presents the basic concepts of Sylvester's construction of Hadamard matrices, the eigenvalue-eigenvector decompositions, along with its relationship to Fourier transforms.

This book introduces several state-of-the-art VLSI implementations of artificial neural networks (ANNs).

ATM is regarded as the next high speed multimedia networking paradigm.

Demand side management (DSM) is one of the most topical issues in regulating electric utilities, both in the United States and internationally.

The deployment of communications networks and distributed computing systems requires the use of open, standards-based, integrated management systems.

Models in System Design tracks the general trend in electronics in terms of size, complexity and difficulty of maintenance.

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It is a great pleasure to be asked to write the Preface for this book on trellis decoding of error correcting block codes.

Rapid increases in chip complexity, increasingly faster clocks, and the proliferation of portable devices have combined to make power dissipation an important design parameter.

Hardware description languages (HDL) such as VHDL and Verilog have found their way into almost every aspect of the design of digital hardware systems.

Finite Fields are fundamental structures of Discrete Mathematics.

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Video technology promises to be the key for the transmission of motion video.

During the past few years, we have been witnessing the rapid growth of the ap- plications of Interactive Digital Video, Multimedia Computing, Desktop Video Teleconferencing, Virtual Reality, and High Definition Television (HDTV).

The wireless industry is growing at a phenomenal rate.

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Auditory User Interfaces: Toward the Speaking Computer describes a speech-enabling approach that separates computation from the user interface and integrates speech into the human-computer interaction.

Switched-Current Design and Implementation of Oversampling A/D Converters discusses the switched-current (SI) technique and its application in oversampling A/D converters design.

Symbolic Analysis in Analog Integrated Circuit Design provides an introduction to computer-aided circuit analysis and presents systematic methods for solving linear (i.

Asymptotic Combinatorial Coding Theory is devoted to the investigation of the combinatorial properties of transmission systems using discrete signals.

The past five years have witnessed some dramatic developments in the general area of ferroelectric thin films materials and devices.

In the winter of 1996, after 4 years of planning and research, the Symposium on the Virtual Utility was held in Saratoga Springs, New York.

The subject of this book is Command Control Communication and Information 3 (C I) which is the management infrastructure for any large or complex dynamic resource systems.

Security is the science and technology of secure communications and resource protection from security violation such as unauthorized access and modification.

Synthesis of Finite State Machines: Logic Optimization is the second in a set of two monographs devoted to the synthesis of Finite State Machines (FSMs).

Testing techniques for VLSI circuits are undergoing many exciting changes.

Embedded systems are informally defined as a collection of programmable parts surrounded by ASICs and other standard components, that interact continuously with an environment through sensors and actuators.

Digital Signal Processing for Communication Systems examines the plans for the future and the progress that has already been made, in the field of DSP and its applications to communication systems.

Welcome to the world of Verilog!

MCMs today consist of complex and dense VLSI devices mounted into packages that allow little physical access to internal nodes.

Analog Design Issues in Digital VLSI Circuits and Systems brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area.