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...
The objectives of the second edition have been maintained and updated to 2005 in the current volume where users will find that one third of the references, now totaling more than 1300, are new to this edition. At the same time most of the in-depth Further Reading suggestions are new to this volume, and production data of some 30 tables...
The origins of this book can be found in the scientific collaboration (officially
started in March 2003) between Francesco Pulvirenti and me. Besides its obvious technical aim, this collaboration has produced eighteen theses for second-level laurea degree in electronic engineering and fifteen theses for first level laurea degree in...
If you are reading Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Creating and Implementing Real-World
Projects, it is likely that you are experienced with SharePoint but looking for ways to
really get the most from the out-of-the-box tools. Let’s face it; the truth is that Share-
Point is a large platform, with many different...
Microsensors and MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) are revolutionising the semiconductor industry. A microsystem or the so-called "system-on-a-chip" combines microelectronic circuitry with microsensors and microactuators. This emergent field has seen the development of applications ranging from the electronic nose and...
Thank you for choosing 18 Steps to Starting Your Business as
the tool to help you start your new business or to use as a textbook
in your entrepreneurial classes. I hope that it will prove to be of
great help to you.
It has often been said that, “You can run your business by the seat
of your...
This is the third edition of this book. We wanted to improve upon the first two editions and update the book with new features of the Windows Phone OS, as well as provide hands-on knowledge on how to program the plethora of features offered by Windows Phone devices.
While the second edition was being written, Microsoft and...
I have always thought of Java as a way of coding and an ecosystem, not just a language
and virtual machine. When you code in Java you are part of a mature culture with
amazing tools and expertise. When I joined the webOS team nearly two years ago I
knew HTML and CSS very well, but very little JavaScript. Over time I...
Optimization is a procedure of finding and comparing feasible solutions until no better
solution can be found. Solutions are termed good or bad in terms of an objective, which
is often the cost of fabrication, amount of harmful gases, efficiency of a process, product
reliability, or other factors A significant portion of research...
It’s a visual world these days. Want your Facebook friends to see what you’re having
for lunch? Post a picture. Need an extra whatchamacallit from the hardware
store? Just show them a photo. It’s just so much easier than trying to describe
such things with words. Everybody has a digital camera now....
This text presents the most comprehensive treatment of the Go programming language you can
find. It draws on the whole spectrum of Go sources available: online documentation and blogs,
books, articles, audio and video, and my own experience in software engineering and teaching
programming languages and databases, organizing the...
Expert Oracle Application Express brings you groundbreaking insights into developing with Oracle’s enterprise-level, rapid-development tool from some of the best practitioners in the field today. Oracle Application Express (APEX) is an entirely web-based development framework that is built into every edition of Oracle Database....