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1. |  Integration of Passive RF Front-End Components in SoCs By: Hooman Darabi; Ahmad Mirzaei Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 31-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 24-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Integration of Passive RF Front-End Components in SoCs
Examining the most important developments in highly integrated wireless RF front-ends, this book describes and evaluates both active and passive solutions for on-chip high-Q filtering, and explores M-phase filters in depth. An accessible step-by-step approach is used to introduce everything an RF designer needs to know about these filters, including their various forms, principles of operation, and their performance against implementation-related imperfections. Real-world examples are described in depth, and detailed mathematical analyses demonstrate the practical quantification of...
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2. |  Managing Power Electronics: VLSI and DSP-Driven Computer Systems By: Nazzareno Rossetti Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Publication Date: 25-NOV-2005 Insert Date: 28-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Managing Power Electronics: VLSI and DSP-Driven Computer Systems
A unique system focus that presents specific solutions for specific appliances
This publication presents state-of-the-art power management techniques for modern electronic appliances that rely on such very large-scale integration (VLSI) chips as CPUs and DSPs. The author thoroughly covers all aspects of the field, including semiconductor manufacturing processes, packages, circuits, functions, and systems. A unique and significant contribution to the field, the publication adopts a "system focus" by first presenting the appliance and then delving into the power management architecture and...
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3. |  By: Steven H. Voldman Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 25-APR-2011 Insert Date: 24-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: ESD: Design and Synthesis
Electrostatic discharge (ESD) continues to impact semiconductor components and systems as technologies scale from micro- to nano-electronics.
This book studies electrical overstress, ESD, and latchup from a whole-chip ESD design synthesis approach. It provides a clear insight into the integration of ESD protection networks from a generalist perspective, followed by examples in specific technologies, circuits, and chips. Uniquely both the semiconductor chip integration issues and floorplanning of ESD networks are covered from a 'top-down' design approach.
Look inside for extensive...
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4. |  Adoption and Optimization of Embedded and Real-Time Communication Systems By: Seppo Virtanen Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 31-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 24-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Adoption and Optimization of Embedded and Real-Time Communication Systems presents innovative research on the integration of embedded systems, real-time systems and the developments towards multimedia technology. This book is essential for researchers, practitioners, scientists, and IT professionals interested in expanding their knowledge of this interdisciplinary field. Adoption and Optimization of Embedded and Real-Time Communication Systems ...
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5. |  By: Doyeol Ahn; Seoung-Hwan Park Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press Publication Date: 23-AUG-2011 Insert Date: 05-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Engineering Quantum Mechanics
There has been growing interest in the model of semiconductor lasers with non-Markovian relaxation. Introducing senior and graduate students and research scientists to quantum mechanics concepts, which are becoming an essential tool in modern engineering, Engineering Quantum Mechanics develops a non-Markovian model for the optical gain of semiconductor, taking into account the rigorous electronic band-structure and the non-Markovian relaxation using the quantum statistical reduced-density operator formalism. Example programs based on Fortran 77 are provided for band-structures of...
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6. |  Analog VLSI Circuits for the Perception of Visual Motion By: Alan A. Stocker Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 12-MAY-2006 Insert Date: 20-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Analog VLSI Circuits for the Perception of Visual Motion
Although it is now possible to integrate many millions of transistors on a single chip, traditional digital circuit technology is now reaching its limits, facing problems of cost and technical efficiency when scaled down to ever-smaller feature sizes. The analysis of biological neural systems, especially for visual processing, has allowed engineers to better understand how complex networks can effectively process large amounts of information, whilst dealing with difficult computational challenges.
Analog and parallel processing are key characteristics of biological neural networks....
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7. |  Compact MOSFET Models for VLSI Design By: A. B. Bhattacharyya Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press Publication Date: 13-APR-2009 Insert Date: 01-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Compact MOSFET Models for VLSI Design
Practicing designers, students, and educators in the semiconductor field face an ever expanding portfolio of MOSFET models. In Compact MOSFET Models for VLSI Design , A.B. Bhattacharyya presents a unified perspective on the topic, allowing the practitioner to view and interpret device phenomena concurrently using different modeling strategies. Readers will learn to link device physics with model parameters, helping to close the gap between device understanding and its use for optimal circuit performance. Bhattacharyya also lays bare the core physical concepts that will drive the future of...
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8. |  Semiconductors and the Information Revolution By: John W. Orton Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 24-AUG-2009 Insert Date: 07-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Semiconductors and the Information Revolution
This book sets out to explain the development of modern electronic systems and devices from the viewpoint of the semiconductor materials (germanium, silicon, gallium arsenide and many others) which made them possible. It covers the scientific understanding of these materials and its intimate relationship with their technology and many applications. It began with Michael Faraday, took off in a big way with the invention of the transistor at Bell Labs in 1947 and is still burgeoning today. It is a story to match any artistic or engineering achievement of man and this is the first time it...
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9. |  Linear Circuit Design Handbook By: Analog Devices Inc., Engineeri; Hank Zumbahlen Publisher: Newnes Publication Date: 28-FEB-2008 Insert Date: 30-DEC-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Linear Circuit Design Handbook
This book enables design engineers to be more effective in designing discrete and integrated circuits by helping them understand the role of analog devices in their circuit design. Analog elements are at the heart of many important functions in both discrete and integrated circuits, but from a design perspective the analog components are often the most difficult to understand. Examples include operational amplifiers, D/A and A/D converters and active filters. Effective circuit design requires a strong understanding of the operation of these analog devices and how they affect circuit...
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10. |  Embedded Systems: World Class Designs By: Jack Ganssle Publisher: Newnes Publication Date: 26-NOV-2007 Insert Date: 30-DEC-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Embedded Systems: World Class Designs
Famed author Jack Ganssle has selected the very best embedded systems design material from the Newnes portfolio and compiled into this volume. The result is a book covering the gamut of embedded design—from hardware to software to integrated embedded systems—with a strong pragmatic emphasis. In addition to specific design techniques and practices, this book also discusses various approaches to solving embedded design problems and how to successfully apply theory to actual design tasks. The material has been selected for its timelessness as well as for its relevance to contemporary...
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11. |  RF Circuit Design, 2nd Edition By: Christopher Bowick; Cheryl Ajluni; John Blyler Publisher: Newnes Publication Date: 19-OCT-2007 Insert Date: 30-DEC-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: RF Circuit Design, 2nd Edition
It’s Back! New chapters, examples, and insights; all infused with the timeless concepts and theories that have helped RF engineers for the past 25 years! RF circuit design is now more important than ever as we find ourselves in an increasingly wireless world. Radio is the backbone of today’s wireless industry with protocols such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, WiMax, and ZigBee. Most, if not all, mobile devices have an RF component and this book tells the reader how to design and integrate that component in a very practical fashion. This book has been updated to include today's integrated circuit...
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12. |  Microcontrollers: Architecture, Programming, Interfacing and System Design, Second Edition By: Raj Kamal Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 19-JUL-2011 Insert Date: 04-DEC-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Microcontrollers: Architecture, Programming, Interfacing and System Design, Second Edition
This book prepares the students for system development using the 8051 as well as 68HC11, 80x96, ARM and PIC family microcontrollers. It provides a perfect blend of both hardware and software aspects of the subject.
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13. |  Electronic Devices and Integrated Circuits By: Brahmadeo Prasad Singh; Rekha Singh Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 20-MAR-2006 Insert Date: 01-DEC-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Electronic Devices and Integrated Circuits
This book emphasizes the basic working principles and operations of semiconductor devices and teaches the reader how to analyze and design electronic circuits using various devices.
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14. |  Bonds and Bands in Semiconductors: Second Edition By: Jim Phillips; Gerald Lucovsky Publisher: Momentum Press Publication Date: 01-NOV-2009 Insert Date: 17-JUL-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Bonds and Bands in Semiconductors: Second Edition This classic work on the basic chemistry and solid state physics of semiconducting materials is now updated and improved with new chapters on crystalline and amorphous semiconductors. Written by two of the world's pioneering materials scientists in the development of semiconductors, this work offers in a single-volume an authoritative treatment for the learning and understanding of what makes perhaps the world's most important engineered materials actually work. Readers will find: the essential principles of chemical bonding, electron energy bands and their relationship to conductive and...
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15. |  Characterization in Silicon Processing By: Yale E. Strausser; Richard C. Brundle; Charles A. Evans Publisher: Momentum Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-2010 Insert Date: 17-JUL-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Characterization in Silicon Processing With a focus on the use of materials characterization techniques for silicon-based semiconductors, this volume in the Materials Characterization series focuses on the process flow of silicon wafer manufacture where materials properties, processing and ass...
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16. |  Characterization in Compound Semiconductor Processing By: Gary E. McGuire; Yale E. Strausser; Richard C. Brundle Publisher: Momentum Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-2010 Insert Date: 17-JUL-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Characterization in Compound Semiconductor Processing Compound semiconductors such as Gallium Arsenide, Gallium Aluminum Arsenide, and Indium Phosphide are often difficult to characterize and present a variety of challenges from substrate preparation, to epitaxial growth to dielectric film deposition to dopa...
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17. |  By: LuÃs Gomes; João M. Fernandes Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 31-JUL-2009 Insert Date: 30-NOV-2010 Slots: 1.0 |
Behavioral Modeling for Embedded Systems and Technologies: Applications for Design and Implementation provides innovative behavior models currently used for developing embedded systems, accentuating graphical and visual notations. This dynamic compilation presents an authoritative reference collection to the most significant models of computation currently in use for embedded systems design.
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18. |  Microcontrollers: From Assembly Language to C Using the PIC24 Family By: Robert Reese; Bryan Jones; J. W. Bruce Publisher: Course Technology PTR Publication Date: 01-DEC-2008 Insert Date: 26-FEB-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Microcontrollers: From Assembly Language to C Using the PIC24 Family "Microcontrollers: From Assembly Language to C Using the PIC24 Family" provides an introduction to microprocessors and microcontrollers for either the student or hobbyist. It begins by discussing simple microprocessor architecture concepts, moves to assembly language programming in a C language context, then covers fundamental hardware interfacing topics such as parallel IO, asynchronous serial IO, synchronous serial I/O (I2C and SPI), interrupt-driven IO, timers, analog-to-digital conversion, and digital-toanalog conversion. Programming topics are discussed using both assembly language and...
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19. |  Power Integrity Analysis and Management for Integrated Circuits Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 07-MAY-2010 Insert Date: 03-FEB-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Power Integrity Analysis and Management for Integrated Circuits New Techniques and Tools for Ensuring On-Chip Power
Integrity—Down to Nanoscale
As chips continue to scale, power integrity
issues are introducing unexpected project complexity and cost. In
this book, two leading industry innovators thoroughly discuss the
power integrity challenges that engineers face in designing at
nanoscale levels, introduce new analysis and management techniques
for addressing these issues, and provide breakthrough tools for
hands-on problem solving.
Raj Nair and Dr. Donald Bennett first
provide a complete foundational understanding of power integrity,
including ULSI...
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20. |  Digital System Design with SystemVerilog By: Mark Zwolinski Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 23-OCT-2009 Insert Date: 28-AUG-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Digital System Design with SystemVerilog The Definitive, Up-to-Date Guide to Digital Design with
SystemVerilog: Concepts, Techniques, and Code
To design state-of-the-art digital hardware, engineers first
specify functionality in a high-level Hardware Description Language
(HDL)—and today’s most powerful, useful HDL is
SystemVerilog, now an IEEE standard. Digital System Design
with SystemVerilog is the first comprehensive introduction
to both SystemVerilog and the contemporary digital hardware design
techniques used with it.
Building on the proven approach of his bestselling Digital
System Design with VHDL, Mark Zwolinski...
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