Materials and Physical Properties of High-K Oxide Films -- Device Principles of High-K Dielectrics -- Thermodynamics of Oxide Systems Relevant to Alternative Gate Dielectrics -- Electronic Structure and Chemical Bonding in High-k Transition Metal and Lanthanide Series Rare Earth Alternative Gate Dielectrics: Applications to Direct Tunneling and Defects at Dielectric Interfaces -- Atomic Structu…
Architecture -- Logic -- Circuits and Layout -- Verification and Testing -- Tools -- Verilog.I am honored to write the foreword for Chandra Thimmannagari’s book on CPU design. Chandra’s book provides a practical overview of Microprocessor and high end ASIC design as practiced today. It is a valuable addition to the literature on CPU design, and is made possible by Chandra’s unique combina…
Preliminaries -- to Part I -- What Does “Control of Robots” Involve? -- Mathematical Preliminaries -- Robot Dynamics -- Properties of the Dynamic Model -- Case Study: The Pelican Prototype Robot -- Position Control -- to Part II -- Proportional Control plus Velocity Feedback and PD Control -- PD Control with Gravity Compensation -- PD Control with Desired Gravity Compensation -- PID Control…
Part I. Computational Techniques: Introductory Remarks -- Part II. Electromagnetic Engineering: Introductory Remarks -- Part III. Special Applications: Introductory Remarks.Computer Engineering in Applied Electromagnetism contains papers which were presented at the International Symposium on Electromagnetic Fields in Electrical Engineering, held in Maribor, Slovenia, 18-20 September 2003. It co…
Information and telecommunication systems for emergency management -- High Performance Computing in Engineering and Science -- Completely splitting method for the Navier-Stokes problem -- Methods of shock wave calculation -- Distributed and collaborative visualization of simulation results -- Safety problems of technical objects -- Direct numerical simulations of shock-boundary layer interactio…
Signal Analysis -- Probability Theory and Random Processes -- Speech Coding -- Amplitude Modulation -- Quadrature Amplitude Modulation -- Angle Modulation -- Propagation Channels -- Carrier Transmission -- Mobile Cellular Telephony.Communication Systems is as an introductory textbook, presenting Fourier transform, convolution, and definitions of autocorrelation and power spectral density. It al…
Analysis and Synthesis of Auditory Scenes -- Evolutionary Adaptations for Auditory Communication -- A Functional View on the Peripheral Human Hearing Organ -- Modelling of Binaural Hearing -- Audio—Visual Interaction in the Context of Multi-Media Applications -- Psycho-Acoustics and Sound Quality -- Quality of Transmitted Speech for Humans and Machines -- Assigning Meaning to Sounds — Semio…
Tour d’horizon -- Channel models for digital transmission -- Coding in a signal space -- Fading channels -- Trellis representation of codes -- Coding on a trellis: Convolutional codes -- Trellis-coded modulation -- Codes on graphs -- LDPC and turbo codes -- Multiple antennas -- Facts from information theory -- Facts from matrix theory -- Random variables, vectors, and matrices -- Computation …
Frequency Synthesizer for Wireless Applications -- PLL Frequency Synthesizer -- ?? Fractional-N PLL Synthesizer -- Enhanced Phase Switching Prescaler -- Loop Filter with Capacitance Multiplier -- Other Building Blocks of PLL -- Prototype Measurement Results -- Conclusions.CMOS PLL Synthesizers: Analysis and Design presents both fundamentals and state of the art PLL synthesizer design and analys…
Phase-Locked Loop Fundamentals -- Low-Voltage Analog Cmos Design -- Jitter Analysis in Phase-Locked Loops -- Low-Jitter PLL Architectures -- Digital PLL Design -- DSP Clock Generator Architectures -- Design for Testability in PLLs -- Clock Partitioning and Skew Control.Current literature is filled with textbooks and research papers describing frequency synthesizers from a front-end wireless tra…