Electronics explained in one volume, using both theoretical and practical applications. Mike Tooley provides all the information required to get to grips with the fundamentals of electronics, detailing the underpinning knowledge necessary to appreciate the operation of a wide range of electronic circuits, including amplifiers, logic circuits, power supplies and oscillators. The 5th edition includes an additional chapter showing how a wide range of useful electronic applications can be develope...
This helpful resource covers a large range of information regarding electrical actuators. In particular, robustness, a very problematic issue, is fully explored in a dedicated chapter. The text also deals with he estimate of non-measurable mechanical variables by examining the estimate of load moment, then observation of the positioning of a command without mechanical sensor. Finally, it examines the conditions needed to measure variables and real implementation of numerical algorithms. This is...
Fault-Tolerance Techniques for Sram-Based FPGAs (Frontiers in Electronic Testing, #32)
by Fernanda Lima Kastensmidt, Luigi Carro, and Ricardo Reis
This book reviews fault-tolerance techniques for SRAM-based Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), outlining many methods for designing fault tolerance systems. Some of these are based on new fault-tolerant architecture, and others on protecting the high-level hardware description before synthesis in the FPGA. The text helps the reader choose the best techniques project-by-project, and to compare fault tolerant techniques for programmable logic applications.
Developments over the past six years have been covered in this expanded text, while previously covered topics have been revisited with a fresh perspective. New material includes fault isolation and characterization, as well as state-of-the-art techniques to analyze the die from the backside. This updated reference book, prepared by experts in their fields, contains 60 articles covering a wide range of topics involving the failure analysis of microelectronics. It places the most frequently nee...
Nanotechnology and Photovoltaic Devices
Silicon is an abundant element and is produced in large quantities for the electronic industry. The falling price of this commodity also feeds the growth of solar photovoltaics (PV). However, solar cells (SCs) based on bulk semiconductors have quite limited maximum attainable performance. Therefore, new principles and materials are being investigat
The information revolution of the twentieth century was brought about by microelectronics based on a simple and common material, silicon. Although silicon will continue to be of central importance in the next century, carbon, silicon's upstairs neighbor in the periodic table, will also be of great impor tance in future technology. Carbon has more flexible bonding and hence has various unique physical, chemical and biological properties. It has two types of bonding, sp3 and sp2, in diamond and g...
Physics of Semiconductors and Nanostructures
by Jyoti Prasad Banerjee and Suranjana Banerjee
This book is a comprehensive text on the physics of semiconductors and nanostructures for a large spectrum of students at the final undergraduate level studying physics, material science and electronics engineering. It offers introductory and advanced courses on solid state and semiconductor physics on one hand and the physics of low dimensional semiconductor structures on the other in a single text book. Key Features Presents basic concepts of quantum theory, solid state physics, semiconduct...
This new game book for understanding atoms at play aims to document diffusion processes and various other properties operative in advanced technological materials. Diffusion in functional organic chemicals, polymers, granular materials, complex oxides, metallic glasses, and quasi-crystals among other advanced materials is a highly interactive and synergic phenomenon. A large variety of atomic arrangements are possible. Each arrangement affects the performance of these advanced, polycrystalline m...
Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuits (Selected Topics in Electronics and Systems, #29)
This is the book version of a special issue of the International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems, reviewing recent work in the field of compound semiconductor integrated circuits. There are fourteen invited papers covering a wide range of applications, frequencies and materials. These papers deal with digital, analog, microwave and millimeter-wave technologies, devices and integrated circuits for wireline fiber-optic lightwave transmissions, and wireless radio-frequency microwave a...
The Electronics Assembly Handbook
The assembly of electronic circuit boards has emerged as one of the most significant growth areas for robotics and automated assembly. This comprehensive volume, which is an edited collection of material mostly published in "Assembly Engineering" and "Electronic Packaging and Production," will provide an essential reference for engineers working in this field, including material on Multi Layer Boards, Chip-on-board and numerous case studies. Frank J. Riley is senior vice-president of the Bodine...
Die Methoden der Leistungselektronik gewinnen standig an Bedeutung, insbesondere fur die Entwicklung von neuen Antriebskonzepten (z.B. von Hybridantrieben fur Kraftfahrzeuge), Stromversorgungen (Schaltnetzteilen) elektronischer Gerate (von Computern, Mobiltelefonen etc.), Beleuchtungstechnik, Solarkonvertern etc. In dieser uberarbeiteten und erweiterten Ausgabe des Standardwerks von Professor Zach werden Aufbau, Wirkungsweise und Analyse der entsprechenden Schaltungsprinzipien und der elektrisch...
MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) for RF (radio frequency) / wireless applications is the technological engine enabling the use of even smaller, more sophisticated wireless products than before. This book addresses the design of RF MEMS-based circuits for use in high-performance wireless systems. It aims to: enable professionals to understand the realm of applications in RF MEMS technology; become knowledgeable of the wide variety and performance levels of RF MEMS devices; and design the arc...
CAD/CAM. Robotics and Factories of the Future.
The last decade has seen the emergence of a unified approach for product design which attempts to combine traditionally distinct tasks such as design, management, marketing, analysis, manufacture and materials. Often called "Concurrent Engineering" or "Simultaneous Engineering", this new philosophy aims at improving cost competitiveness by reducing waste of time, money, and other resources inherent in the iterative traditional methods. In view of the importance of this new philosophy, concurrent...
Embedded software needs have grown exponentially over the past quarter century. In 1975 writing 10,000 lines of assembly code was a considered a huge undertaking. Today, a cell phone can contain five million lines of C or C++! Embedded software developers must have a strong grasp of many complex topics in order to make faster, more efficient and more powerful microprocessors to meet the public's growing demand. This practical guide, written by industry pioneer Colin Walls, helps embedded design...
Circuit Design (Newnes Know It All)
by Darren Ashby, Bonnie Baker, Ian Hickman, Walt Kester, Robert A. Pease, and Tim Williams
Electronic Noise and Interfering Signals (Signals and Communication Technology)
by Gabriel Vasilescu
Electronic Noise and Interfering Signals is a comprehensive reference book on noise and interference in electronic circuits, with particular focus on low-noise design. The first part of the book deals with mechanisms, modelling, and computation of intrinsic noise which is generated in every electronic device. The second part analyzes the coupling mechanisms which can lead to a contamination of circuits by parasitic signals and provides appropriate solutions to this problem. The last part contain...
As systems being developed by industry and government grow larger and more complex, the need for superior specification and verification approaches and tools becomes increasingly vital. The developer and customer must have complete confidence that the design produced is correct, and that it meets forma development and verification standards. In this text, UML expert author Dr. Doron Drusinsky compiles all the latest information on the application of UML (Universal Modeling Language) statecharts,...
Ultra-Low Input Power Conversion Circuits Based on Tunnel-Fets (River Publishers Series in Circuits and Systems)
by David Cavalheiro, Francesc Moll, and Stanimir Valtchev
The increasing demand in electronic portability imposes low power consumption as a key metric to analog and digital circuit design. Tunnel FET (TFET) devices have been explored mostly in digital circuits, showing promising results for ultra-low power and energy efficient circuit applications. The TFET presents a low inverse sub-threshold slope (SS) that allows a low leakage energy consumption, desirable in many digital circuits, especially memories. In this book, the TFET is explored as an alte...
This edition of 'CMOS-MEMS' was originally published in the successful series 'Advanced Micro & Nanosystems'. Here, the combination of the globally established, billion dollar chip mass fabrication technology CMOS with the fascinating and commercially promising new world of MEMS is covered from all angles. The book introduces readers to this fi eld and takes them from fabrication technologies and material charaterization aspects to the actual applications of CMOS-MEMS - a wide range of min...
Future Directions in Silicon Photonics (Semiconductors and Semimetals)
Future Directions in Silicon Photonics, Volume 101 in the Semiconductors and Semimetals series, highlights new advances in the field, with this updated volume presenting the latest developments as discussed by esteemed leaders in the field silicon photonics.