Gas Flows -- Governing Equations and Slip Models -- Shear-Driven Flows -- Pressure-Driven Flows -- Thermal Effects in Microscales -- Prototype Applications of Gas Flows -- Basic Concepts and Technologies -- Liquid Flows -- Electrokinetic Flows -- Surface Tension-Driven Flows -- Mixers and Chaotic Advection -- Simple Fluids in Nanochannels -- Water in Nanochannels -- Electroosmotic Flow in Nanoc…
Applications -- Social, Economic, and Ethical Implications of Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing -- Integrated Microelectronics for Smart Textiles -- Ambient Intelligence Research in HomeLab: Engineering the User Experience -- How Ambient Intelligence will Improve Habitability and Energy Efficiency in Buildings -- System Design and Architecture -- Networked Infomechanical Systems (NI…
Analog and Mixed-Signal Systems -- Refinement of Mixed-Signal Systems: Between Heaven and Hell -- Mixed Nets, Conversion Models, and VHDL-AMS -- Monte Carlo Simulation Using VHDL-AMS -- Early Prediction of Conducted-Mode Emission of Complex Ic’s -- Practical Case Example of Inertial Mems Modeling with VHDL-AMS -- UML-Based System Specification and Design -- Metamodels and MDA Transformations …
Biological Aspects in Technical Sensor Systems -- The International Market for Automotive Microsystems, Regional Characteristics and Challenges -- Status of the Inertial MEMS-based Sensors in the Automotive -- The Assessment of the Socio-economic Impact of the Introduction of Intelligent Safety Systems in Road Vehicles — Findings of the EU Funded Project SEiSS -- Safety -- Special Cases of La…
Sensor Design -- Measurement System -- Characterization -- Applications -- Conclusions and Outlook.This monograph is intended for wire bonding and flip-chip packaging professionals and for scientists and engineers working in the field of mechanical microsensors. New measurement technologies are introduced that allow in situ and real-time examination of physical processes during the packaging pr…
Applications and Devices -- MEMS-Based Thin Film and Resonant Chemical Sensors -- Microactuators Based on Thin Films -- Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers and Acoustic Sensors Based on Piezoelectric Thin Films -- Thick-Film Piezoelectric and Magnetostrictive Devices -- Micromachined Infrared Detectors Based on Pyroelectric Thin Films -- RF Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonators and Filters -- High Fre…
Overview of CCD -- CCD Imaging in the Ultraviolet (UV) Regime -- Silicon -- Silicon Dioxide -- Si-SiO2 Interface -- General Effects of Radiation -- Effects of Radiation on CCDs -- UV-Induced Effects in Si -- UV Laser Induced Effects in SiO2 -- UV Laser Induced Effects at the Si-SiO2 Interface -- CCD Measurements at 157nm -- Design Optimizations for Future Research -- Concluding Remarks.As the d…
The Fundamentals -- Digital Representation -- Logic Circuitry -- Stored Program Processing -- The Software -- The PIC16F84 Microcontroller -- The Instruction Set -- Subroutines and Modules -- Interrupt Handling -- Assembly Language Code Building Tools -- High-Level Language -- The Outside World -- The Real World -- One Byte at a Time -- One Bit at a Time -- Time Is of the Essence -- Take the Ro…
Microarchitecture- and Circuit-Level Techniques -- An Optimized Front-End Physical Register File with Banking and Writeback Filtering -- Reducing Delay and Power Consumption of the Wakeup Logic Through Instruction Packing and Tag Memoization -- Bit-Sliced Datapath for Energy-Efficient High Performance Microprocessors -- Low-Overhead Core Swapping for Thermal Management -- Power-Aware Memory and…
Compilers -- Runtime Biased Pointer Reuse Analysis and Its Application to Energy Efficiency -- Inter-program Compilation for Disk Energy Reduction -- Embedded Systems -- Energy Consumption in Mobile Devices: Why Future Systems Need Requirements–Aware Energy Scale-Down -- Efficient Scratchpad Allocation Algorithms for Energy Constrained Embedded Systems -- Online Prediction of Battery Lifetime…