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Handbook of Sensor Networks: Algorithms and ArchitecturesAuthor:
Ivan StojmenovicPages:
552Format:
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EnglishISBN10:
0471684724Written by an international team of recognized experts in sensor networks from prestigious organizations such as Motorola, Fujitsu, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cornell University, and the University of Illinois, Handbook of Sensor Networks: Algorithms and Architectures tackles important challenges and presents the latest trends and innovations in this growing field.
Striking a balance between theoretical and practical coverage, this comprehensive reference explores a myriad of possible architectures for future commercial, social, and educational applications, and offers insightful information and analyses of critical issues, including:
* Sensor training and security
* Embedded operating systems
* Signal processing and medium access
* Target location, tracking, and sensor localization
* Broadcasting, routing, and sensor area coverage
* Topology construction and maintenance
* Data-centric protocols and data gathering
* Time synchronization and calibration
* Energy scavenging and power sources 
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Compact MOSFET Models for VLSI DesignAuthor:
A. B. BhattacharyyaPages:
512Format:
PDFLanguage:
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0470823429Practicing 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 VLSI development, allowing readers to stay ahead of the curve, despite the relentless evolution of new models.• Adopts a unified approach to guide students through the confusing array of MOSFET models
• Links MOS physics to device models to prepare practitioners for real-world design activities
• Helps fabless designers bridge the gap with off-site foundries
• Features rich coverage of:
• quantum mechanical related phenomena
• Si-Ge strained-Silicon substrate
• non-classical structures such as Double Gate MOSFETs
• Presents topics that will prepare readers for long-term developments in the field
• Includes solutions in every chapter
• Can be tailored for use among students and professionals of many levels
• Comes with MATLAB code downloads for independent practice and advanced studyThis book is essential for students specializing in VLSI Design and indispensible for design professionals in the microelectronics and VLSI industries. Written to serve a number of experience levels, it can be used either as a course textbook or practitioner’s reference.
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Integrated Circuit Packaging, Assembly and Interconnections: Trends and Options (Advanced Microelectronics)Author:
William J. GreigPages:
300Format:
PDFLanguage:
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0387281533Reviewing the various IC packaging, assembly, and interconnection technologies, this professional guide and reference provides an overview of the materials and the processes, as well as the trends and available options that encompass electronic manufacturing. It covers both the technical issues and touches on some of the reliability concerns with the various technologies applicable to packaging and assembly of the IC. The focus is on the electronic manufacturing processes, which in its simplest form involves assembly of the IC into a package or interconnect substrate or board. The book discusses the various packaging approaches available, namely, single chip, multichip, and Chip On Board; the assembly options, chip and wire, tape automated bonding, and flip chip; and the essential high density package/substrate manufacturing technologies, thin film, thick film, cofired ceramic, and laminate printed wiring board (PWB) processes. Included also is a discussion of high density PWBs using build up/sequential processes. "Integrated Circuit Packaging, Assembly and Interconnections" is an introduction, a review and an update of packaging technologies.[center] [b]Download [/b] [/center]
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Statistical Image Processing and Multidimensional ModelingAuthor:
Paul FieguthPages:
454Format:
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EnglishISBN10:
1441972935Images are all around us! The proliferation of low-cost, high-quality imaging devices has led to an explosion in acquired images. When these images are acquired from a microscope, telescope, satellite, or medical imaging device, there is a statistical image processing task: the inference of something—an artery, a road, a DNA marker, an oil spill—from imagery, possibly noisy, blurry, or incomplete.A great many textbooks have been written on image processing. However this book does not so much focus on images, per se, but rather on spatial data sets, with one or more measurements taken over a two or higher dimensional space, and to which standard image-processing algorithms may not apply.There are many important data analysis methods developed in this text for such statistical image problems. Examples abound throughout remote sensing (satellite data mapping, data assimilation, climate-change studies, land use), medical imaging (organ segmentation, anomaly detection), computer vision (image classification, segmentation), and other 2D/3D problems (biological imaging, porous media).The goal, then, of this text is to address methods for solving multidimensional statistical problems. The text strikes a balance between mathematics and theory on the one hand, versus applications and algorithms on the other, by deliberately developing the basic theory (Part I), the mathematical modeling (Part II), and the algorithmic and numerical methods (Part III) of solving a given problem. The particular emphases of the book include inverse problems, multidimensional modeling, random fields, and hierarchical methods.
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Introduction to Electrical and Computer EngineeringAuthor:
Charles B. Fleddermann and Martin BradshawPages:
136Format:
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0130333638ESource—Prentice Hall's Engineering Source—provides a complete, flexible introductory engineering and computing program. Featuring over 15 modules and growing, ESource allows users to fully customize their series through the ESource website. Users are not only able to pick and choose modules, but also sections of modules, and re-paginate and re-index the complete project. For any Engineer or Computer Scientist interested in a complete, customized reference.
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New Methods of Concurrent CheckingAuthor:
Michael Goessel, Vitaly Ocheretny, Egor Sogomonyan, Daniel MarienfeldPages:
184Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
1402084196Written by a team of two leading experts and two very successful young former PhD students, New Methods of Concurrent Checking describes new methods of concurrent checking, such as partial duplication, use of output dependencies, complementary circuits, self-dual parity, self-dual duplication and others. A special chapter demonstrates how the new general methods of concurrent checking can be more specifically applied to regular structures to obtain optimum results. This is exemplified for all types of adders up to 64 bits with a level of detail never before presented in the literature. The clearly written text is illustrated by about 100 figures.New Methods of Concurrent Checking is approved in many university courses for graduate and undergraduate students, and it is of interest to students and teachers in electrical engineering and computer science, researchers and designers and all readers who are interested in the design and the understanding of reliable circuits and computers.
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Inverse Engineering HandbookAuthor:
Keith A. WoodburyPages:
480Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0849308615Inverse problems have been the focus of a growing number of research efforts over the last 40 years-and rightly so. The ability to determine a "cause" from an observed "effect" is a powerful one. Researchers now have at their disposal a variety of techniques for solving inverse problems, techniques that go well beyond those useful for relatively simple parameter estimation problems. The question is, where can one find a single, comprehensive resource that details these methods?The answer is the Inverse Engineering Handbook. Leading experts in inverse problems have joined forces to produce the definitive reference that allows readers to understand, implement, and benefit from a variety of problem-solving techniques. Each chapter details a method developed or refined by its contributor, who provides clear explanations, examples, and in many cases, software algorithms. The presentation begins with methods for parameter estimation, which build a bridge to boundary function estimation problems. The techniques addressed include sequential function estimation, mollification, space marching techniques, and adjoint, Monte Carlo, and gradient-based methods. Discussions also cover important experimental aspects, including experiment design and the effects of uncertain parameters.While many of the examples presented focus on heat transfer, the techniques discussed are applicable to a wide range of inverse problems. Anyone interested in inverse problems, regardless of their specialty, will find the Inverse Engineering Handbook to be a unique and invaluable compendium of up-to-date techniques.
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Solid Biofuels for Energy: A Lower Greenhouse Gas AlternativeAuthor:
Panagiotis GrammelisPages:
242Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
1849963924Fossil fuels are widely used for electricity generation and heating, creating greenhouse gas emissions and other toxic pollutants, which should be minimised according to the most recent environmental legislation. The utilisation of solid fuels with biogenic origin could contribute to the minimisation of these emissions. Solid Biofuels for Energy presents the current status of the engineering disciplines in this specific area, providing an improved background on the energy exploitation options of solid biomass. Within this framework, all thematic priorities related to the solid bioenergy potential and standardisation, commercialised and emerging energy technologies, and quality of solid residues are presented. Special attention has been given to biomass co-firing with coal, since it has the highest potential for commercial application, while combustion and gasification are more promising for units of medium to small scale. This strong practical focus is evident throughout the book, particularly in discussions of: • international standards for solid biofuel specifications; • supply, cost and sustainability of solid biofuels; • technical issues and non-technical barriers in biomass/coal co-firing; and • biomass combustion and gasification characteristics. Solid Biofuels for Energy is an informative reference, written for researchers and postgraduate students working in the field of biomass. It can also be a useful guide for chemical and mechanical engineers, involved in the environment and energy production sectors.
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America's Energy Future: Technology and Transformation: Summary EditionAuthor:
Committee on America's Energy FuturePages:
184Format:
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EnglishISBN10:
0309141451Energy production and use touch our lives in countless ways. We are reminded of the cost of energy every time we fill up at the gas pump, pay an electricity bill, or purchase an airline ticket. Energy use also has important indirect impacts, not all of which are reflected in current energy prices: depletion of natural resources, degradation of the environment, and threats to national security arising from a growing dependence on geopolitically unstable regions for some of our energy supplies. These indirect impacts could increase in the future if the demand for energy rises faster than available energy supplies. Our nation's challenge is to develop an energy portfolio that reduces these impacts while providing sufficient and affordable energy supplies to sustain our future economic prosperity.The United States has enormous economic and intellectual resources that can be brought to bear on these challenges through a sustained national effort in the decades ahead. America's Energy Future is intended to inform the development of wise energy policies by fostering a better understanding of technological options for increasing energy supplies and improving the efficiency of energy use. This summary edition of the book will also be a useful resource for professionals working in the energy industry or involved in advocacy and researchers and academics in energy-related fields of study.America's Energy Future examines the deployment potential, costs, barriers, and impacts of energy supply and end-use technologies during the next two to three decades, including energy efficiency, alternative transportation fuels, renewable energy, fossil fuel energy, and nuclear energy, as well as technologies for improving the nation's electrical transmission and distribution systems.
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Power Systems Restructuring and Deregulation: Trading, Performance and Information technologyAuthor:
Loi Lei LaiPages:
499Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
047149500XThe electricity power utilities in many countries have been, or are being, restructured. There are many reasons for restructur~ng,I n some countries restruc~uringh as been driven by the desire of gove~mentto meet ~ncreasingd emands for electricity by encouraging independent power production, which relieves government of a financial obligat~on. In countries where ownership of assets is in private hands, restructuring has been driven by mergers and ac~Liisi~ioans~ c,o mpanies seek to gain competiti~ea dvantage. In the most a ~ v a n cco~un tries, restruciuring is being driven by the desire to allow consu~er sto choose their electricity supplier on the basis of price and service provided~ These drarna~~chca nges in the organisation of electricity power utilities bring with them new challenges and opportunities, as the previous centrally designed and operated systems are dismantleda nd replace by a new competitive framework.
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SD Card Projects Using the PIC Microcontroller (2010)Author:
Dogan IbrahimPages:
526Format:
pdfLanguage:
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185617719XPIC Microcontrollers are a favorite in industry and with hobbyists. These microcontrollers are versatile, simple, and low cost making them perfect for many different applications. The 8-bit PIC is widely used in consumer electronic goods, office automation, and personal projects. Author, Dogan Ibrahim, author of several PIC books has now written a book using the PIC18 family of microcontrollers to create projects with SD cards.This book is ideal for those practicing engineers, advanced students, and PIC enthusiasts that want to incorporate SD Cards into their devices. SD cards are cheap, fast, and small, used in many MP3 players, digital and video cameras, and perfect for microcontroller applications.Complete with Microchip's C18 student compiler and using the C language this book brings the reader up to speed on the PIC 18 and SD cards, knowledge which can then be harnessed for hands-on work with the eighteen projects included within. Two great technologies are brought together in this one practical, real-world, hands-on cookbook perfect for a wide range of PIC fans.
*Eighteen fully worked SD projects in the C programming language
*Details memory cards usage with the PIC18 family
*Companion Web site with project code listings to run on Microchip's C18 student compiler
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Entropy Coders of the H.264/AVC Standard: Algorithms and VLSI ArchitecturesAuthor:
Xiaohua Tian, Thinh M. Le, and Yong LianPages:
179Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
364214702XThis book presents a collection of algorithms and VLSI architectures of entropy (or statistical) codecs of recent video compression standards, with focus on the H.264/AVC standard. For any visual data compression scheme, there exists a combination of one, two, or all of the following three stages: spatial, temporal, and statistical compression. General readers are first introduced with the various algorithms of the statistical coders. The VLSI implementations are also reviewed and discussed. Readers with limited hardware design background are also introduced with a design methodology starting from performance-complexity analysis to software/ hardware co-simulation. A typical design of the Context-based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding (CABAC) encoder is also presented in details. To support System-on-Chip design environment, the CABAC design is wrapped with a SoC-based Wishbone system bus interface.
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IEE Wiring Regulations: Explained and IllustratedAuthor:
Brian ScaddanPages:
128Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0750654686The classic handy reference guide for everyone involved in electrical installation - contractors, designers, electricians, plumbers and students.Brian Scaddan's guides to the IEE Wiring Regulations have established themselves as an industry standard, so this new edition will be welcomed by anyone who wants to know more about the new issue of the Wiring Regs published on June 1st 2001.BS7671: 2001 will be the legal standard for electrical installation in the UK from 1st January 2002, and can be implemented sooner, so this book is essential reading for all contractors, electricians and related professionals and managers. All those teaching and studying City & Guilds courses will also have to comply with the new Wiring Regulations.Used alongside the regulations themselves, this book is the key to safe and efficient electrical installation. Problems are also provided, for use as 'self-check' exercises or college assignments. This book is also a concise and popular text for the City & Guilds 2380 syllabus.Brian Scaddan is a Leading Scheme Assessor, Examiner and Honorary Member of City and Guilds. He has 22 years' experience in Further Education, and is now Director of Brian Scaddan Associates, Engineering Training Consultants.IEE Wiring Regulations
BS7261: 2001, Requirements for Electrical Installations
Changes and additions include:
A· Updated section on scope and fundamental principles
A· Protection against overvoltages due to atmospheric conditions or switching
A· Precautions where particular fire risks exist
A· update on construction site installations
A· Locations containing a bath or shower
A· Extended information on circuit breakers and RCBOs
A· Introduction of continuous monitoring and maintenance of electrical installationsA·The thoroughly practical guide to applying the wiring regs
A·Fully in line with the major 2001 revision of the Wiring Regulations
A·Essential reading for electricians, managers and students
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IEE Wiring Regulations: Inspection, Testing and Certification of ElectricalAuthor:
Brian ScaddanPages:
96Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0750654694Brian Scaddan, "IEE Wiring Regulations: Inspection, Testing and Certification of Electrical"
N-s | 2002 | ISBN: 0750654694 | 96 pages | PDF | 1 MBBrian Scaddan's guides to the IEE Wiring Regulations have established themselves as an industry standard, so this new edition will be welcomed by anyone who wants to know more about the new issue of the Wiring Regs published on June 1st 2001, and mandatory from 1st January 2001.This book is essential reading for anyone with practical or management responsibility for testing and inspecting electrical installations. It is designed specifically to meet the requirements of the City & Guilds 2391 course, of which Brian Scaddan is the Chief Examiner.
The 2391 is the next step for anyone with a 2380 qualification, advancing technical knowledge without the supervisory emphasis of the 2400. The text is supported by a sample test paper, complete with model answers and mark scheme.Brian Scaddan is a Leading Scheme Assessor, Examiner and Honorary Member of City and Guilds. He has 22 years' experience in Further Education, and is now Director of Brian Scaddan Associates, Engineering Training Consultants.IEE Wiring Regulations
BS7261: 2001, Requirements for Electrical Installations
Changes and additions include:
A· Updated section on scope and fundamental principles
A· Protection against overvoltages due to atmospheric conditions or switching
A· Precautions where particular fire risks exist
A· update on construction site installations
A· Locations containing a bath or shower
A· Extended information on circuit breakers and RCBOs
A· Introduction of continuous monitoring and maintenance of electrical installationsA·The thoroughly practical guide to test and inspection of installations
A·Fully in line with the major 2001 revision of the Wiring Regulations
A·Essential reading for electricians, managers and students
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Electronic Media, Second Edition: Then, Now, and LaterAuthor:
Norman Medoff and Barbara K. KayePages:
318Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0240812565Electronic Media connects the traditional world of broadcasting with the contemporary universe of digital electronic media. It provides a synopsis of the beginnings of electronic media in broadcasting, and the subsequent advancements into digital media. Underlying the structure of the book is a "See It Then, See It Now, See It Later" approach that focuses on how past innovations lay the groundwork for changing trends in technology, providing the opportunity and demand for change in both broadcasting and digital media.FYI and Zoom-In boxes point to further information, tying together the immediate and long-ranging issues surrounding electronic media. Career Tracks feature the experiences of industry experts and share tips in how to approach this challenging industry.* Overview of the history of electronic media, industry terms, and current media trends
* Exploration of electronic media from both a media consumer and provider's perspective
* Consideration of social media and its effects on everday and mass communication
* Unique "See It Then, See It Now, See It Later" chapter structure places electronic media history into historical context
* Companion Web site provides further insights to how communication technologies work
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Synchronization in Coupled Chaotic Circuits & SystemAuthor:
Chai Wah WuPages:
188Format:
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EnglishISBN10:
9810247133Synchronization in Coupled Chaotic Circuits & System by Chai Wah Wu
This invaluable book studies synchronization of coupled chaotic circuits and systems, as well as its applications. It shows how one can use stability results in nonlinear control to derive synchronization criteria for coupled chaotic circuits and systems. It also discusses the use of Lyapunov exponents in deriving synchronization criteria. Both the case of two coupled systems and the case of arbitrarily coupled arrays of systems are considered. The book examines how synchronization properties in arrays of coupled systems are dependent on graph-theoretical properties of the underlying coupling topology. Finally, it studies some applications of synchronized chaotic circuits and systems, including spread spectrum and secure communications, coupled map lattices and graph coloring.
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How Electronic Things Work... And What to do When They Don'tAuthor:
Bob GodmanPages:
426Format:
pdfLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0071387455A guide to understanding and repairing electronics equipment written for people who would ordinarily call the shop. Fully illustrated, simple to use guide, you will get a grasp of the workings of the electronics world that surrounds you, and even learn to make your own repairs.
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Pedestrian Dynamics: Feedback Control of Crowd EvacuationAuthor:
Pushkin Kachroo, Sadeq J. Al-nasur, Sabiha Amin WadooPages:
246Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
3540755594This book provides mathematical models of pedestrian movements that can be used specifically for designing feedback control laws for effective evacuation. The book also provides various feedback control laws to accomplish the effective evacuation. The book uses the hydrodynamic hyperbolic PDE macroscopic pedestrian models since they are amenable to feedback control design. The control designs are obtained through different nonlinear techniques including Lyapunov functional techniques, feedback linearization in the distributed model, and some discretized techniques.
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Optoelectronic Devices: Advanced Simulation and AnalysisAuthor:
Joachim PiprekPages:
458Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0387226591The subject of the book is optoelectronic devices. These are semiconductor devices that employ the interaction of electrons and photons in order to transform electrical into optical signals and vice versa. The large variety of devices, materials, and theoretical approaches often makes it difficult for an experimental researcher to select the appropriate software. Therefore, this book presents a review of devices and approaches, written by leading software providers, in collaboration with partners in the industry or academia. The target audience is students, device engineers, and researchers who are not familiar with the theory behind the software. Each chapter will provide an easy-to-understand introduction to the physics and the main equations, as well as material parameters essential for realistic simulations. The goal is to enhance the general understanding, acceptance, and use of numerical simulations.
The most essential part of this book project is to make it easy for the reader to actually perform advanced simulations himself/herself. Each software package discussed in the book will be available for download in a trial/demo version. This way, every reader is quickly able to repoduce and build on the results shown in the book.
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Detection of Low-Level Optical Signals: Photodetectors, Focal Plane Arrays and SystemsAuthor:
SpringerPages:
484Format:
djvuLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0792346912This book is intended for designers of military and civil systems, such as systems for guiding and control, target acquisition, surveillance, laser range-finding, fiber-optical communications, thermal imaging and the like, as well as for designers of photodetectors for optical signal detection. The first question they face is how to detect an ultimately weak optical signal. This book gives the answer to this most important question. All the main types of photodetectors are considered, from photodiodes (including avalanche photodiodes) to focal plane arrays (FPA). Methods of matching photodetectors with preamplifiers are described. The pair photodetector plus preamplifier is treated as an integrated detection system. Much attention is paid to different types of noise and ways of maximising the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Foundations of theory of optimal filtering of photosignals are discussed taking due account of typical shapes of optical signals and noise spectra. Methods for tuning quasi-optimal filters to maximise the SNR are explained. The main problems associated with detection of low-level optical signals are considered: operation of avalanche photodiodes in photon count mode, filtering in the case of charge accumulation in FPA cells, and the effect of the number of pixels and geometry of FPAs on detection. Finally, using the examples of the laser range finder and IR Imager, we give guidelines for calculating the limiting parameters of optoelectronic systems to achieve the highest possible SNR. The book is based on many years' experience by the author and his colleagues in the development of photodetectors and FPAs. The book is aimed at research workers, engineers, students and postgraduates.
