Electrical engineering

Performance and Reliability Analysis of Computer Systems: An Example-Based Approach Using the SHARPE Software Package provides a variety of probabilistic, discrete-state models used to assess the reliability and performance of computer and communication systems.

Preface Testing Integrated Circuits for manufacturing defects includes four basic disciplines.

The Fourier transform is one of the most important mathematical tools in a wide variety of fields in science and engineering.

Low-Power Digital VLSI Design: Circuits and Systems addresses both process technologies and device modeling.

Algorithms for VLSI Physical Design Automation, Second Edition is a core reference text for graduate students and CAD professionals.

In Finite Element Analysis of Electrical Machines the author covers two-dimensional analysis, emphasizing the use of finite elements to perform the most common calculations required of machine designers and analysts.

Advances in the state of the art mean the signal processing ICs of ever-increasing complexity are being introduced.

Short turnaround has become critical in the design of electronic systems.

The purpose of this book is to introduce VHSIC Hardware Description Lan- guage (VHDL) and its use for synthesis.

Analog Signal Generation for Built-In-Self-Test (BIST) of Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits is a concise introduction to a powerful new signal generation technique.

Feed-Forward Neural Networks: Vector Decomposition Analysis, Modelling and Analog Implementation presents a novel method for the mathematical analysis of neural networks that learn according to the back-propagation algorithm.

Model Generation in Electronic Design covers a wide range of model applications and research.

Low Power Design Methodologies presents the first in-depth coverage of all the layers of the design hierarchy, ranging from the technology, circuit, logic and architectural levels, up to the system layer.

A reactive system is one that is in continual interaction with its environment and executes at a pace determined by that environment.

To a large extent, our lives on this earth depend on systems that operate auto- matically.

Co-Synthesis of Hardware and Software for Digital Embedded Systems, with a Foreword written by Giovanni De Micheli, presents techniques that are useful in building complex embedded systems.

Error detecting codes are very popular for error control in practical systems for two reasons.

High-Performance Digital VLSI Circuit Design is the first book devoted entirely to the design of digital high-performance VLSI circuits.

Low-Voltage Low-Power Analog Integrated Circuits brings together in one place important contributions and state-of-the-art research results in this rapidly advancing area.

The term speech processing refers to the scientific discipline concerned with the analysis and processing of speech signals for getting the best benefit in various practical scenarios.

Video and Image Processing in Multimedia Systems treats a number of critical topics in multimedia systems, with respect to image and video processing techniques and their implementations.

Controlling the mechanical, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties of materials by advanced fabrication methods (Le.

Low-Voltage CMOS Operational Amplifiers: Theory, Design and Implementation discusses both single and two-stage architectures.

Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) has become one of the main candidates for the next generation of mobile land and satellite communication systems.

Silicon on Insulator is more than a technology, more than a job, and more than a venture in microelectronics; it is something different and refreshing in device physics.

Integrated Fiber-Optic Receivers covers many aspects of the design of integrated circuits for fiber-optic receivers and other high-speed serial data links.

Neural Information Processing and VLSI provides a unified treatment of this important subject for use in classrooms, industry, and research laboratories, in order to develop advanced artificial and biologically-inspired neural networks using compact analog and digital VLSI parallel processing techniques.

Since the study of wavelets is a relatively new area, much of the research coming from mathematicians, most of the literature uses terminology, concepts and proofs that may, at times, be difficult and intimidating for the engineer.

The drive toward new semiconductor technologies is intricately related to market demands for cheaper, smaller, faster, and more reliable circuits with lower power consumption.

LOTOS (Language Of Temporal Ordering Specification) became an international standard in 1989, although application of preliminary versions of the language to communication services and protocols of the ISO/OSI family dates back to 1984.

This is not a dictionary - and nor is it an encyclopedia.

The need for a general collection of electroacoustical reference and design data in graphical form has been felt by acousticians and engineers for some time.

This volume represents the proceedings of the 21 st International Symposium on Acoustical Imaging, which was held at the Surf and Sand Hotel in Laguna Beach, California, March 28-30, 1994.

This volwne contains the Proceedings of a two-week summer conference titled "e;Advances in Integrated Optics"e; held June 1-9, 1993, in Erice, Sicily.

This book joins the multitude of Control Systems books now available, but is neither a textbook nor a monograph.

From September 24 through 30, 1992 the Workshop on "e;Waves and Parti- cles in Light and Matter"e; was held in the Italian city of Trani in celebration of the centenary of Louis de Broglie's birth.

by Phil Moorby The Verilog Hardware Description Language has had an amazing impact on the mod- em electronics industry, considering that the essential composition of the language was developed in a surprisingly short period of time, early in 1984.

Ingeometrical optics, light propagation is analyzed in terms of light rays which define the path of propagation of light energy in the limitofthe optical wavelength tending to zero.

The challenges currently facing particIpants m competitive electricity markets are unique and staggering: unprecedented price volatility, a crippling lack of historical market data on which to test new modeling approaches, and a continuously changing regulatory structure.

Fixed-interval smoothing is a method of extracting useful information from inaccurate data.

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Iterative Detection: Adaptivity, Complexity Reduction, and Applications is a primary resource for both researchers and teachers in the field of communication.

The appropriate interconnect model has changed several times over the past two decades due to the application of aggressive technology scaling.

Infrared (IR) detectors fall into two main categories, thermal and photon.

An embedded system is loosely defined as any system that utilizes electronics but is not perceived or used as a general-purpose computer.

Error Coding for Engineers provides a useful tool for practicing engineers, students, and researchers, focusing on the applied rather than the theoretical.

The application of computational electromagnetics to real-world EMI/EMC engineering is an emerging technology.

Constrained Coding and Soft Iterative Decoding is the first work to combine the issues of constrained coding and soft iterative decoding (e.

Optical networks, employing Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (WDM) and wavelength routing, are believed to be the answer for the explosion in IP traffic and the emergence of real-time multimedia applications.