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81. |  Digital Filters Design for Signal and Image Processing By: Mohamed Najim Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 31-OCT-2006 Insert Date: 27-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Digital Filters Design for Signal and Image Processing
Dealing with digital filtering methods for 1-D and 2-D signals, this book provides the theoretical background in signal processing, covering topics such as the z-transform, Shannon sampling theorem and fast Fourier transform. An entire chapter is devoted to the design of time-continuous filters which provides a useful preliminary step for analog-to-digital filter conversion.
Attention is also given to the main methods of designing finite impulse response (FIR) and infinite impulse response (IIR) filters. Bi-dimensional digital filtering (image filtering) is investigated and a study on...
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82. |  RF and Microwave Engineering: Fundamentals of Wireless Communications By: Frank Gustrau Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 13-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 27-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: RF and Microwave Engineering: Fundamentals of Wireless Communications
This book provides a fundamental and practical introduction to radio frequency and microwave engineering and physical aspects of wireless communication
In this book, the author addresses a wide range of radio-frequency and microwave topics with emphasis on physical aspects including EM and voltage waves, transmission lines, passive circuits, antennas, radio wave propagation. Up-to-date RF design tools like RF circuit simulation, EM simulation and computerized smith charts, are used in various examples to demonstrate how these methods can be applied effectively in RF engineering...
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83. |  Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 31-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 27-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
State-of-the-technology tools for designing, optimizing, and manufacturing new materials
Integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) uses computational materials science tools within a holistic system in order to accelerate materials development, improve design optimization, and unify design and manufacturing. Increasingly, ICME is the preferred paradigm for design, development, and manufacturing of structural products.
Written by one of the world's leading ICME experts, this text delivers a comprehensive, practical introduction to the field, guiding readers through...
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84. |  Linear and Non-Linear Video and TV Applications: Using IPv6 and IPv6 Multicast By: Daniel Minoli Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 07-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 27-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Linear and Non-Linear Video and TV Applications: Using IPv6 and IPv6 Multicast
Provides options for implementing IPv6 and IPv6 multicast in service provider networks
New technologies, viewing paradigms, and content distribution approaches are taking the TV/video services industry by storm. Linear and Nonlinear Video and TV Applications: Using IPv6 and IPv6 Multicast identifies five emerging trends in next-generation delivery of entertainment-quality video. These trends are observable and can be capitalized upon by progressive service providers, telcos, cable operators, and ISPs.
This comprehensive guide explores these evolving directions in the TV/video services...
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85. |  Next Generation Wireless Communications Using Radio over Fiber By: Nathan J. Gomes; Paulo P. Monteiro; Atílio Gameiro Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 05-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 27-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Next Generation Wireless Communications Using Radio over Fiber
Taking a coherent and logical approach, this book describes the potential use of co-ordinated multipoint systems supported by radio over fiber. It covers an impressive breadth of topics, ranging from components, subsystem and system architecture, to network management and business perspectives. The authors show the importance of radio over fiber in eliminating or mitigating against the current, perceived barriers to the use of co-ordinated multipoint, and the drivers for standardisation activities in future mobile/wireless systems over the next few years.
The book brings together the...
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86. |  Optical Communications, 2nd Edition By: Robert M. Gagliardi; Sherman Karp Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Publication Date: 20-FEB-1995 Insert Date: 27-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Optical Communications, 2nd Edition
This updated edition concentrates on modern analysis and design. Includes new material in the key areas of digital communications, fiber optics, lightwave networks, atmospheric channels and space links--all of which are now critical topics in optical applications. Contains brief sections on optical hardware and device descriptions. Features new homework problems and references.
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87. |  Digital Communication Receivers: Synchronization, Channel Estimation, and Signal Processing By: Heinrich Meyr; Marc Moeneclaey; Stefan A. Fechtel Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Publication Date: 20-OCT-1997 Insert Date: 27-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Digital Communication Receivers: Synchronization, Channel Estimation, and Signal Processing
Digital Communication Receivers Synchronization, Channel Estimation, and Signal Processing Digital Communication Receivers offers a complete treatment on the theoretical and practical aspects of synchronization and channel estimation from the standpoint of digital signal processing. The focus on these increasingly important topics, the systematic approach to algorithm development, and the linked algorithm-architecture methodology in digital receiver design are unique features of this book. The material is structured according to different classes of transmission channels. In Part C,...
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88. |  Radio-Frequency and Microwave Communication Circuits: Analysis and Design, 2nd Edition Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Publication Date: 30-JUL-2004 Insert Date: 27-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Radio-Frequency and Microwave Communication Circuits: Analysis and Design, 2nd Edition
The products that drive the wireless communication industry, such as cell phones and pagers, employ circuits that operate at radio and microwave frequencies. Following on from a highly successful first edition, the second edition provides readers with a detailed introduction to RF and microwave circuits. Throughout, examples from real-world devices and engineering problems are used to great effect to illustrate circuit concepts.
Takes a top-down approach, describing circuits in the overall context of communication systems.
Presents expanded coverage of waveguides and FT...
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89. |  Advanced Computer Arithmetic Design By: Michael J. Flynn; Stuart F. Oberman Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Publication Date: 09-APR-2001 Insert Date: 27-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Advanced Computer Arithmetic Design
Innovative techniques and cutting-edge research in computer arithmetic design
Computer arithmetic is a fundamental discipline that drives many modern digital technologies. High-performance VLSI implementations of 3-D graphics, encryption, streaming digital audio and video, and signal processing all require fast and efficient computer arithmetic algorithms. The demand for these fast implementations has led to a wealth of new research in innovative techniques and designs.
Advanced Computer Arithmetic Design is the result of ten years of effort at Stanford University under the...
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90. |  Designing Effective Speech Interfaces By: Susan Weinschenk; Dean T. Barker Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 18-FEB-2000 Insert Date: 27-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Designing Effective Speech Interfaces
Master the critical knowledge you need to design speech-enabled applications
It's not just a far-fetched gizmo straight out of a sci-fi movie anymore. Speech interface technology, which allows a user to communicate with computers via voice instead of a keyboard or a mouse, is quickly becoming a main feature in new software. This straightforward guide provides traditional graphical user-interface designers, developers, usability engineers, and product managers with all the information they need to make a rapid transition in order to stay abreast of this monumental shift in...
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91. |  High-Speed Digital System Design: A Handbook of Interconnect Theory and Design Practices By: Stephen H. Hall; Garrett W. Hall; James A. McCall Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press Publication Date: 25-AUG-2000 Insert Date: 27-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: High-Speed Digital System Design: A Handbook of Interconnect Theory and Design Practices
A cutting-edge guide to the theory and practice of high-speed digital system design
An understanding of high-speed interconnect phenomena is essential for digital designers who must deal with the challenges posed by the ever-increasing operating speeds of today's microprocessors. This book provides a much-needed, practical guide to the state of the art of modern digital system design, combining easily accessible explanations with immensely useful problem-solving strategies. Written by three leading Intel engineers, High-Speed Digital System Design clarifies difficult and often neglected...
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92. |  Digital Signal Processing: A Computer Science Perspective Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Publication Date: 09-OCT-2000 Insert Date: 27-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Digital Signal Processing: A Computer Science Perspective
Get a working knowledge of digital signal processing for computer science applications
The field of digital signal processing (DSP) is rapidly exploding, yet most books on the subject do not reflect the real world of algorithm development, coding for applications, and software engineering. This important new work fills the gap in the field, providing computer professionals with a comprehensive introduction to those aspects of DSP essential for working on today's cutting-edge applications in speech compression and recognition and modem design. The author walks readers through a variety of...
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93. |  Digital Signal Processing: Laboratory Experiments Using C and the TMS320C31 DSK By: Rulph Chassaing Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Publication Date: 16-NOV-1998 Insert Date: 27-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Digital Signal Processing: Laboratory Experiments Using C and the TMS320C31 DSK
A practical guide to using the TMS320C31 DSP Starter Kit
With applications and demand for high-performing digital signal processors expanding rapidly, it is becoming increasingly important for today's students and practicing engineers to master real-time digital signal processing (DSP) techniques.
Digital Signal Processing: Laboratory Experiments Using C and the TMS320C31 DSK offers users a practical--and economicalm--approach to understanding DSP principles, designs, and applications. Demonstrating Texas Instruments' (TI) state-of-the-art, low-priced DSP Starter Kit (DSK), this book...
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94. |  Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 14-SEP-1998 Insert Date: 27-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Maslow on Management
A seminal work onhuman behavior in the workplace-now completely updated
"At last! We have all been quoting Maslow for years and to now have such an excellent compilation of his seminal thoughts on management and organization comes like a timely gift from heaven. The values and principles he taught decades ago are even more relevant today." -Stephen Covey, author, The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People.
"Maslow's book is a readable, impressionistic masterpiece that extolled the virtues of collaborative, synergistic management decades ahead of its time. This edition reveals just...
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95. |  By: T. K. Sarkar; Michael C. Wicks; M. Salazar-Palma; Robert J. Bonneau Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press Publication Date: 06-MAY-2003 Insert Date: 27-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Smart Antennas
A valuable addition to the Wiley Series in Microwave and Optical Engineering
Today's modern wireless mobile communications depend on adaptive "smart" antennas to provide maximum range and clarity. With the recent explosive growth of wireless applications, smart antenna technology has achieved widespread commercial and military applications.
The only book available on the topic of adaptive antennas using digital technology, this text reflects the latest developments in smart antenna technology and offers timely information on fundamentals, as well as new adaptive techniques developed by...
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96. |  System Integration: From Transistor Design to Large Scale Integrated Circuits By: Kurt Hoffmann Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 16-APR-2004 Insert Date: 27-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: System Integration: From Transistor Design to Large Scale Integrated Circuits
The development of large-scale integrated systems on a chip has had a dramatic effect on circuit design methodology.
Recent years have seen an escalation of interest in systems level integration (system-on-a-chip) and the development of low power, high chip density circuits and systems. Kurt Hoffmann sets out to address a wide range of issues relating to the design and integration of integrated circuit components and provides readers with the methodology by which simple equations for the estimation of transistor geometries and circuit behaviour can be deduced. The broad coverage of this...
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97. |  By: James Powell Publisher: Momentum Press Publication Date: 03-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 26-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Catching the Process Fieldbus Industrial communications are a multidimensional, occasionally confusing, mixture of fieldbuses, software packages, and media. The intent of this book is to make it all accessible. When industrial controls communication is understood and then installed with forethought and care, network operation can be both beneficial and painless. To that end, the book is designed to speak to you, whether you’re a beginner or interested newbie, the authors guide you through the bus route to communication success. However, this is not a how-to manual. Rather, think of it as a primer laying the groundwork for...
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98. |  Contemporary Challenges and Solutions for Mobile and Multimedia Technologies By: Ismail Khalil; Edgar Weippl Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 31-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 19-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Contemporary Challenges and Solutions for Mobile and Multimedia Technologies Mobile computing and multimedia technologies continue to expand and change the way we interact with each other on a business and social level. With the increased use of mobile devices and the exchange of information over wireless networks, information systems are able to process and transmit multimedia data in various areas. Contemporary Challenges and Solutions for Mobile and Multimedia Technologies provides comprehensive knowledge on the growth and changes in the field of multimedia and mobile technologies. This reference source highlights the advancements in mobile technology that are...
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99. |  Complete Electronics Self-Teaching Guide with Projects Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 31-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 19-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Complete Electronics Self-Teaching Guide with Projects
An all-in-one resource on everything electronics-related!
For almost 30 years, this book has been a classic text for electronics enthusiasts. Now completely updated for today's technology, this latest version combines concepts, self-tests, and hands-on projects to offer you a completely repackaged and revised resource. This unique self-teaching guide features easy-to-understand explanations that are presented in a user-friendly format to help you learn the essentials you need to work with electronic circuits.
All you need is a general understanding of electronics concepts such as Ohm's...
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100. |  Digital Circuit Boards: Mach 1 GHz By: Ralph Morrison Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 29-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 19-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Digital Circuit Boards: Mach 1 GHz
A unique, practical approach to the design of high-speed digital circuit boards
The demand for ever-faster digital circuit designs is beginning to render the circuit theory used by engineers ineffective. Digital Circuit Boards presents an alternative to the circuit theory approach, emphasizing energy flow rather than just signal interconnection to explain logic circuit behavior.
The book shows how treating design in terms of transmission lines will ensure that the logic will function, addressing both storage and movement of electrical energy on these lines. It covers transmission lines...
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