Many engineers encountering VHDL (very high speed integrated circuits hardware description language) for the first time can feel overwhelmed by it. This book bridges the gap between the VHDL language and the hardware that results from logic synthesis with...

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The jargon associated with Microsoft Excel's pivot tables ("n-dimensional cross tabulations") makes them look complex, but they're really no more than an easy way to build concise, flexible summaries of long lists of raw values. If you're working with hundreds (or hundreds of thousands) of rows, then pivot...

This is the first text to present an integrated view of the optical and mathematical analysis tools necessary to understand computational optical system design. It presents the foundations of computational optical sensor design with a focus entirely on digital imaging and spectroscopy. It...

Kalman filtering algorithm gives optimal (linear, unbiased and minimum error-variance) estimates of the unknown state vectors of a linear dynamic-observation system, under the regular conditions such as perfect data information; complete noise statistics; exact linear modelling; ideal will-conditioned matrices in computation and strictly...

Filters, especially analog filters, are employed in many different systems that electrical engineers embark upon to design. Even many signal processing systems that are apparently digital, often contain one or more analog continuous-time filters either internally or as interface with the real-time world, which is analog in nature. This book...

You’re no dummy, and neither am I. The tongue-in-cheek title of For Dummies used for this book franchise is one of the world’s most successful oxymorons, like military intelligence or boneless ribs. You are smart enough to pick up this book because you know there are gaps in your knowledge. The publisher was smart enough to pay me...