The Rough Guide to San Francisco & the Bay Area is the essential companion to discovering the colourful Californian city and its stunning surrounds. The full-colour introduction highlights the cosmopolitan streets of the Downtown area, the shimmering waters of San Francisco Bay and the rolling valleys of the wine country. There are full...
The fundamental principle of piezotronics and piezo-phototronics were introduced by Wang in 2007 and 2010, respectively. Due to the polarization of ions in a crystal that has non-central symmetry in materials, such as the wurtzite structured ZnO, GaN and InN, a piezoelectric potential (piezopotential) is created in the crystal by applying a...
The SQL Server Query Optimizer is perceived by many to be a magic black box, transforming SQL queries into high performance execution plans in the blink of an eye through some unknowable process. The truth is that, while the Query Optimizer is indeed the highly-complex result of decades of research, learning how it works its magic is not only...
The protection of critical information and systems is a major component of today's electronic business community. This valuable reference presents the primary hardware-based computer security approaches in an easy-to-read toolbox format. The techniques discussed show readers how to perform their own evaluation of new and emerging security...
Phil Factor is a legend in his own runtime. Scurrilous, absurd, confessional and scathing by turns, Confessions of an IT Manager targets the idiocy, incompetence and overreach of the IT management industry from vantage point all the way up and down the greasy pole. Phil Factor (real name witheld to protest the guilty) has over 20 years...
The integration of multi-million-gate configurable logic, pre-compiled heterogeneous
hardware components, and on-chip processor subsystems offer high
computation capability and exceptional design flexibility to modern reconfigurable
hardware. Moshe Gavrielov, the recently appointed president and CEO
of Xilinx, which is the largest...
This ninth edition of Digital Electronics: A Practical Approach with VHDL provides
the fundamentals of digital circuitry to students in engineering and technology curricula.
The digital circuits are introduced using fixed-function 7400 ICs and evolve into
FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) programmed with VHDL (VHSIC Hardware...
"Introduction to Embedded System Design Using Field Programmable Gate Arrays" provides a starting point for the use of field programmable gate arrays in the design of embedded systems. The text considers a hypothetical robot controller as an embedded application and weaves around it related concepts of FPGA-based digital design. The...
"Quantum Computing without Magic gives a refreshing and down to earth approach to quantum information as well as quantum devices which will have a fundamental impact on the technology of the 21st century." —Raymond Laflamme, Canada Research Chair in Quantum Information, and Director, Institute for...
With the advent of LSI and subsequently VLSI, technology has never
witnessed such an unprecedented growth in the use of electronic systems in a
wide range of applications. Although the ability to integrate several hundreds
of thousands of transistors into a monolithic integrated circuit offers many
advantages, a major concern in the...
In 1997, Dolly the cloned sheep began a biological revolution. She showed us the way to
physiologically dedifferentiate already committed somatic cells, opening the gate to a
whole new world of possibilities in the study of basic biological mechanisms that touch the
origins of life at its core. It is clear that cloning vertebrates...
The fraction of the industrial semiconductor budget that manufacturing-time testing consumes continues to rise steadily. It has been known for quite some time that tackling the problems associated with testing semiconductor circuits at earlier design levels significantly reduces testing costs. Thus, it is important for hardware designers to be...
