Technical design

This book represents a compendium of fundamental problem formulations of analog design centering and sizing.

We have come to know that our ability to survive and grow as a nation to a very large degree depends upon our sci- tific progress.

This is the first book of robotics presenting solutions of uncoupled and fully-isotropic PMs and a method for their structural synthesis.

This is the second volume of the new conference series Design Computing and Cognition (DCC) that takes over from and subsumes the successful series Artificial Intelligence in Design (AID) published by Kluwer since 1992.

Computer Aided Tolerancing (CAT) is an important topic in any field of design and production where parts move relative to one another and/or are assembled together.

III European Conference on Computational Mechanics: Solids, Structures and Coupled Problem in EngineeringComputational Mechanics in Solid, Structures and Coupled Problems in Engineering is today a mature science with applications to major industrial projects.

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

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.

Ah the Machine; both coveted and criticized, life sustaining and life destr- ing yet always a symbol of human creativity and invention from the Rena- sance to robotics from the Wright brothers to the Wankel engine.

Sustainable solutions require the integration of social and ecological aspects in every planning and decision-making process.

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).

This is the tenth book in the series of Advances in Robot Kinematics.

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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.

Business models, which aims at determining how efficient can be a life cycle strategy from different point of view (customer, policy, environment, economics,.

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

A new discipline is said to attain maturity when the subject matter takes the shape of a textbook.

High-speed impact dynamics is of interest in the fundamental sciences, e.

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.

Parallel robots are closed-loop mechanisms presenting very good performances in terms of accuracy, velocity, rigidity and ability to manipulate large loads.

This book presents a selection of papers related to the fifth edition of book further to the International Conference on Integrated Design and Manufacturing in Mechanical Engineering.

LNA-ESD Co-Design for Fully Integrated CMOS Wireless Receivers fits in the quest for complete CMOS integration of wireless receiver front-ends.

Low Noise Amplifiers (LNAs) are commonly used to amplify signals that are too weak for direct processing for example in radio or cable receivers.

New Algorithms, Architectures and Applications for Reconfigurable Computing consists of a collection of contributions from the authors of some of the best papers from the Field Programmable Logic conference (FPL'03) and the Design and Test Europe conference (DATE'03).

This book contains an edited version of the lectures and selected contributions presented during the Advanced Summer Institute on "e;Product Engineering: Eco-Design, Technologies and Green Energy"e; organized at the st Transilvania University of Brasov (Romania) in the period 14-21 of July 2004.

Current-Mode digital circuits have been extensively analyzed and used since the early days of digital ICs.

Embedded computer systems are now everywhere: from alarm clocks to PDAs, from mobile phones to cars, almost all the devices we use are controlled by embedded computers.

This book presents the perspective of the project on a Paradigm Unifying System Specification Environments for proven Electronic design (PUS SEE) as conceived in the course of the research during 2002 -2003.

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Analog Circuit Design contains the contribution of 18 experts from the 13th International Workshop on Advances in Analog Circuit Design.

Intelligent/smart systems have become common practice in many engineering applications.

Among all the fields in solid mechanics the methodologies associated to multibody dynamics are probably those that provide a better framework to aggregate different disciplines.

A vast majority of failures emanate from stress concentrators such as geometrical discontinuities.

The HMM2004 International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms is the second event of a series that has been started in 2000 as main activity of the IFToMM Permanent Commission for History of MMS, Mechanism and Machine Science.

This book has evolved from a course on Mechanics of Robots that the author has thought for over a dozen years at the University of Cassino at Cassino, Italy.

With collaborative product development in a geographically distributed environment and global outsourcing becoming normal for many companies, it is imperative to bring academics, researchers and industrialists together to share research ideas and best practice.

Artificial intelligence provides an environmentally rich paradigm within which design research based on computational constructions can be carried out.

The Engineering Management discipline remains complex and multidisciplinary, and has progressed and broadened in scope significantly over the last 10-20 years.

From the acclaimed author and engineer, an engaging and lively account of the surprising secret of great designDesign pervades our lives.

The road to licensing a profitable, innovative product or technology is riddled with curves, holes, and rocky cliffs.

Human factors/ergonomics (HFE) as a discipline has grown by accretions rather than having been developed systematically and deliberately.

Professionals striving for accident reduction must deal with systems in which both technical and human elements play equal and complementary roles.

Professionals striving for accident reduction must deal with systems in which both technical and human elements play equal and complementary roles.

This influential text was fully revised and updated for the second edition with the addition of substantial new material, and takes the reader, in a logical sequence, through the main areas of ergonomics relevant to design, in a way that allows ergonomics to be integrated with all aspects of the design process.

Written by world-renowned health and safety researcher E.

This book will provide an overview of the rehabilitation engineering field, including key concepts that are required to provide a solid foundation about the discipline.