Everyday use of time in one form or another is a common experience for everyone throughout their lives. The availability of a means to measure the passage of time with the required accuracy is taken for granted. However, the concepts on which those time scales are based and the requirements for accuracy in many applications can be both...
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Providing a complete introduction to the state-of-the-art in high-speed digital testing with automated test equipment (ATE), this practical resource is the first book to focus exclusively on this increasingly important topic. Featuring clear examples, this one-stop reference covers all critical aspects of the subject, from high-speed digital...
As the demand for packaging more electronic capabilities into smaller packages rises, product developers must be more cognizant of how the system configuration will impact its performance. Practical Guide to the Packaging of Electronics: Second Edition, Thermal and Mechanical Design and Analysis provides a...
Developing applications for Android and other mobile devices using web technologies is now well within reach. When the capabilities of HTML5 are combined with CSS3 and JavaScript, web application developers have an opportunity to develop compelling mobile applications using familiar tools. Not only is it possible to build mobile web apps that...
Due to the fast growth of the Web and the difficulties in finding desired information, efficient and effective information retrieval systems have become more important than ever, and the search engine has become an essential tool for many people.
The ranker, a central component in every search engine, is responsible for the...
This book is about learning how to write programs for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots. The LEGO MINDSTORMS software and its NXT-G programming language are powerful tools that make it easy to write custom programs. This book will teach you how to get the most out of the NXT-G language as you acquire the programming skills necessary to...
It was early 2006, and I was spending many frustrating hours testing and learning
many of the frameworks and libraries on the internet. Seemingly, out of nowhere, I
stumbled upon an extension to YUI or YUI-ext, developed by an unknown at the time,
Jack Slocum.
At last! An Ajax library that was easy to use and well-documented....
In case you haven’t heard, the digital camera market is exploding. At this point,
a staggering 98 percent of cameras sold are digital cameras. It’s taken a few
decades—the underlying technology used in most digital cameras was invented
in 1969—but film photography has been reduced to a niche activity.
Cloud computing has recently emerged as one of the buzzwords in the ICT
industry. Numerous IT vendors are promising to offer computation, storage,
and application hosting services and to provide coverage in several continents,
offering service-level agreements (SLA)-backed performance and uptime promises
for their services. While...
Bestselling author Jeff Carlson is back with a fully updated revision of the iMovie Visual QuickStart Guide. Completely overhauled for iMovie HD and iDVD 5, this book uses step-by-step instructions and loads of illustrations to get readers up to speed quickly in the process of making movies with iMovie and creating Hollywood-quality...
The Israeli department of defence has one of the strictest information security guidelines in the world, and a part of these guidelines is the requirement to have complete physical separation between the public and internal networks. A regular firewall just won't do, and this requirement gave birth to the concept of the
Air-Gap, a...
