Electrical engineering

The increasing performance of smart microsystems merging sensors, signal processing and wireless communication promises to have a pervasive impact during the coming decade.

In pursuit of feasible near-future sustainable and environmentally acceptable - ergy solutions to speci?

The NATO Advanced Workshop "e;Advanced Combustion and Aerothermal Technologies: Environmental Protection and Pollution Reductions"e; was held in Kiev (Ukraine) from 15 to 19 May 2006 and was organized by the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics (Ukraine) and Cardiff University (UK).

Thecomplexityofembeddedsystems-on-a-chipisrapidlygrowing.

This proceedings volume constitutes an archive of the contributions of the key-speakers who attended the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "e;Nanoscaled Semiconductor-On-Insulator Structures and devices"e; held in the Tourist and Recreation Centre "e;Sudak"e; (Crimea, Ukraine) from 15 to 19 October 2006.

"e;Design of high voltage xDSL line drivers in standard CMOS"e; fits in the quest for highly efficient fully integrated xDSL modems for central office applications.

This book takes a modern, multidisciplinary view on radio system - sign: the advantages of digital signal processing are exploited to satisfy the ever increasing demands on better performing, ?

In the last two decades, fractional (or non integer) differentiation has played a very important role in various fields such as mechanics, electricity, chemistry, biology, economics, control theory and signal and image processing.

The intention of this book is to address a number of timely, performance-critical issues within the field of short-distance optical communications, from a circuit designer's perspective.

As we embrace the world of personal, portable, and perplexingly complex digital systems, it has befallen upon the bewildered designer to take advantage of the available transistors to produce a system which is small, fast, cheap and correct, yet possesses increased functionality.

This book deals with actual design applications rather than the technology of VLSI Systems.

Reflecting the success of the first workshop of the Cyprus Institute entitled Climate Change and Energy Pathways for the Mediterranean held in Cyprus in 2005, these proceedings present an overview of the implications of climate change for the eastern Mediterranean and the impact of climate change response on regional economic activity, particularly in the hydrocarbon industry.

The book presents a novel socio-economic approach to analysing the - ergy system and energy consumption in India from a household persp- tive.

RF Power Amplifiers for Mobile Communications fits in the quest for fully integrated CMOS transceivers.

Aiming at the core of the problem, Reuse Based Methodologies and Tools in the Design of Analog and Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits presents a framework for the reuse-based design of AMS circuits.

In the deep sub-micron regime, the power consumption has become one of the most important issues for competitive design of digital circuits.

Ad-Hoc Networking Towards Seamless Communications is dedicated to an area that attracts growing interest in academia and industry and concentrates on wireless ad hoc networking paradigm.

It is widely assumed that our consumer society can move from using fossil fuels to using renewable energy sources while maintaining the high levels of energy use to which we have become accustomed.

Electrical drives in general play a key role in power generation, household appliances, automotive and industrial applications.

The advent of ubiquitous computing and the proliferation of portable c- puting devices have raised the importance of mobile and wireless networking.

This book originated from a workshop held at the DATE 2005 conference, namely Designing Complex SOCs.

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Oscillation-Based Test in Mixed-Signal Circuits presents the development and experimental validation of the structural test strategy called Oscillation-Based Test - OBT in short.

The low cost and direct digital output of CMOS smart temperature sensors are important advantages compared to conventional temperature sensors.

Adaptive radio transceivers require a comprehensive theoretical framework in order to optimize their performance.

Radiation Effects on Embedded Systems aims at providing the reader with the major guidelines for coping with radiation effects on components supposed to be included in today's applications devoted to operate in space, but also in the atmosphere at high altitude or at ground level.

Applications of Specification and Design Languages for SoCs includes a selection of the best contributions to the Forum on Specification and Design Languages held in 2005 (FDL'05).

The International Workshop on "e;Embedded Systems - Modeling, Techn- ogy, and Applications"e; is the seventh in a successful series of workshops that were established by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Technische Universitat Berlin.

In this well documented global wake-up call, nuclear physicist Jeff Eerkens explores remedies for the impending energy crisis, when oil and natural gas are depleted.

Radio Design in Nanometer Technologies addresses current trends and future directions in radio design for wireless applications.

CMOS Cascade Sigma-Delta Modulators for Sensors and Telecom: Error Analysis and Practical Design starts with a tutorial presentation of the fundamentals of low-pass sigma-delta modulators, their applications, and their most common architectures.

Integrating formal property verification (FPV) into an existing design process raises several interesting questions.

Advances in Information Technologies for Electromagnetics offers a broad panorama on recently achieved and potentially obtainable advances in electromagnetics with innovative IT technologies.

Cooperation in Wireless Networks: Principles and Applications covers the underlying principles of cooperative techniques as well as several applications demonstrating the use of such techniques in practical systems.

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Advanced Design Techniques for RF Power Amplifiers' main aim is to provide the reader with a deep analysis of theoretical aspects, modelling, and design strategies of RF high-efficiency power amplifiers.

Calibration Techniques in Nyquist A/D Converters analyses different A/D-converter architectures with an emphasis on the maximum achievable power efficiency.

Among many great inventions made in the 20th century, electronic circuits, which later evolved into integrated circuits, are probably the biggest, when considering their contribution to human society.

Analog Circuit Design contains the contribution of 18 tutorials of the 14th workshop on Advances in Analog Circuit Design.

The goal of this NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) entitled "e;Defects in Advanced High-k Dielectric Nano-electronic Semiconductor Devices"e;, which was held in St.

Europe witnessed in the last years a number of significant power contingencies.

Methodology for the Digital Calibration of Analog Circuits and Systems shows how to relax the extreme design constraints in analog circuits, allowing the realization of high-precision systems even with low-performance components.

Ambient Intelligence is one of the new paradigms in the development of information and communication technology, which has attracted much attention over the past years.

Low-Power Low-Voltage Sigma-Delta Modulators in Nanometer CMOS addresses the low-power low-voltage Sigma-Delta ADC design in nanometer CMOS technologies at both the circuit-level and the system level.

Coordinated Multiuser Communications provides for the first time a unified treatment of multiuser detection and multiuser decoding in a single volume.

The International Workshop on "e;Human Interaction with Machines"e; is the sixth in a successful series of workshops that were established by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Technische Universitat Berlin.

Advances in space-borne remote sensing have significantly changed the mankind viewpoint how to observe our own Earth planet.

Recent Developments of Electrical Drives is composed of the papers which cover a wide spectrum of theory and practice, thus they are deeply rooted in engineering problems, being simultaneously of high theoretical level.

Turbo Code Applications: a journey from a paper to realization presents c- temporary applications of turbo codes in thirteen technical chapters.