The history of digital filters essentially began in the mid - 1970s, concurrent with the
advent of the fi eld of study called digital signal processing (DSP). Over the ensuing
30 something years, digital filters have become both a facilitating and enabling
technology. They serve as analog replacements as well as serving in unique...
THE ROLE OF a user experience consultant, and specifi cally the user-centered design process,
is to help guide and shape the development of products and services based on what the
user understands and requires. To do this, the consultant needs to be a facilitator and communicator,
ensuring that the right user information is...
Development in classical thermodynamics is, logically and traditionally,
aimed at the analysis of cycles. Computational efforts impose harsh
constraints on the kinds and amounts of cycle analyses that can reasonably
be attempted. Cycle simulations cannot approach realistic complexity. Even
relative sensitivity analyses based on...
As soon as I heard about Griffon in Action, I was eager to get it into my hands. What I
expected was a typical Manning In Action book: providing an easy jump start, working
from actionable examples, and providing lots of insight about the technology at hand.
It turned out that this book not only lived up to my...
This book is aimed at helping Oracle DBAs understand and use PeopleSoft technology. For the typical DBA, the introduction to PeopleSoft is likely to include some surprises, not all of them agreeable. Many—if not most—DBAs have to deal with many different databases, usually supporting different applications. Often they will want to...
The ever increasing complexity of modern electronic devices together with the continually shrinking time-to-market and product lifetimes pose enormous chip design challenges to meet flexibility, performance and energy efficiency constraints. As a consequence, the current trend is towards programmable platforms (Multi-Processor System-on-Chip...
THE AMAZING SUCCESS OF THE IPHONE and iPad over the past four years has proven that
application developers are now smack deep in a brave new world of sophisticated, multifunctional
mobile applications. No longer do applications and various media need to live in separate silos.
Instead, mobile web-based applications can bring...
The professionalization of web development has been a difficult journey because of our
disparate beginnings. Even those who end up at large companies such as Yahoo! inevitably
began on their own, hacking around. Perhaps you were even “the web guy” at
a small company and could do pretty much whatever you...
When you need answers for programming with C# 5.0, this practical and tightly focused book tells you exactly what you need to know—without long introductions or bloated samples. Easy to browse, it’s ideal as quick reference or as a guide to get you rapidly up to speed if you already know Java, C++, or an earlier version...
Layout generation is an important topic in IC design. For digital circuits a lot of research
has been conducted in this area, resulting in a large variety of books and layout generation
tools. However, with the ever increasing frequencies, we are facing now significant analog
types of artifacts in the IC, introduced during the...
Antennas and antenna systems are the eyes and ears of wireless communication systems,
which have experienced an unprecedented rapid expansion. Part of this advancement has
been attributed to contributions of antenna technology. These wireless systems, no matter
how simple or complex, cannot operate efficiently unless they utilize...
The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) had compelling
reasons to partner with Rockport Publishers on this book: It
meets a growing, real, and broad hunger for information and in-
spiration on industrial design.
Recently, industrial design has emerged as a profession that...
