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Review CRC  / Decision Diagram Techniques for Micro- and Nanoelectronic Design Handbook
Authors
  • Svetlana N. Yanushkevich
  • D. Michael Miller
  • Vlad P. Shmerko
  • Radomir S. Stankovic
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-12-22
Dewey code: 621.381
List Price: $119.95
Price: $103.34

Review Decision Diagram Techniques for Micro- and Nanoelectronic Design Handbook / CRC:

Decision diagram (DD) techniques are very popular in the electronic design automation (EDA) of integrated circuits, and for good reason. They can accurately simulate logic design, can show where to make reductions in complexity, and can be easily modified to model different scenarios. Presenting DD techniques from an applied perspective, Decision Diagram Techniques for Micro- and Nanoelectronic Design Handbook provides a comprehensive, up-to-date collection of DD techniques. Experts with more than forty years of combined experience in both industrial and academic settings demonstrate how to apply the techniques to full advantage with more than 400 examples and illustrations. Beginning with the fundamental theory, data structures, and logic underlying DD techniques, they explore a breadth of topics from arithmetic and word-level representations to spectral techniques and event-driven analysis. The book also includes abundant references to more detailed information and additional applications. Decision Diagram Techniques for Micro- and Nanoelectronic Design Handbook collects the theory, methods, and practical knowledge necessary to design more advanced circuits and places it at your fingertips in a single, concise reference.

Publication date: 1989-12
Price: $56.00

Review ACM-IEEE Design Automation Conference, 26th, 1989 (26 Dac): Proceedings / IEEE Computer Society Press:


Review CRC-Press  / Circuit Simulation Methods and Algorithms (Electronic Engineering Systems) Creator: Jan Ogrodzki
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1994-11-30
Dewey code: 621.3815011353
List Price: $104.95
Price: $104.95

Review Circuit Simulation Methods and Algorithms (Electronic Engineering Systems) / CRC-Press:

Circuit Simulation Methods and Algorithms provides a step-by-step theoretical consideration of methods, techniques, and algorithms in an easy-to-understand format. Many illustrations explain more difficult problems and present instructive circuits. The book works on three levels: o The simulator-user level for practitioners and students who want to better understand circuit simulators. o The basic theoretical level, with examples, dedicated to students and beginning researchers. o The thorough level for deep insight into circuit simulation based on computer experiments using PSPICE and OPTIMA. Only basic mathematical knowledge, such as matrix algebra, derivatives, and integrals, is presumed.

Review CRC-Press  / Circuit Simulation Methods and Algorithms (Electronic Engineering Systems) Creator: Jan Ogrodzki
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1994-11-30
Dewey code: 621.3815011353
List Price: $104.95
Price: $104.95

Review Circuit Simulation Methods and Algorithms (Electronic Engineering Systems) / CRC-Press:

Circuit Simulation Methods and Algorithms provides a step-by-step theoretical consideration of methods, techniques, and algorithms in an easy-to-understand format. Many illustrations explain more difficult problems and present instructive circuits. The book works on three levels: o The simulator-user level for practitioners and students who want to better understand circuit simulators. o The basic theoretical level, with examples, dedicated to students and beginning researchers. o The thorough level for deep insight into circuit simulation based on computer experiments using PSPICE and OPTIMA. Only basic mathematical knowledge, such as matrix algebra, derivatives, and integrals, is presumed.

Review Chapman & Hall/CRC  / Speculative Execution in High Performance Computer Architectures (Chapman & Hall/Crc Computer & Information Science Series) Creator: Pen-Chung Yew
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-05-26
Dewey code: 004.35
List Price: $119.95
Price: $103.70

Review Speculative Execution in High Performance Computer Architectures (Chapman & Hall/Crc Computer & Information Science Series) / Chapman & Hall/CRC:

Until now, there were few textbooks that focused on the dynamic subject of speculative execution, a topic that is crucial to the development of high performance computer architectures. Speculative Execution in High Performance Computer Architectures describes many recent advances in speculative execution techniques. It covers cutting-edge research projects, as well as numerous commercial implementations that demonstrate the value of this latency-hiding technique. The book begins with a review of control speculation techniques that use instruction cache prefetching, branch prediction and predication, and multi-path execution. It then examines dataflow speculation techniques including data cache prefetching, address value and data value speculation, pre-computation, and coherence speculation. This textbook also explores multithreaded approaches, emphasizing profile-guided speculation, speculative microarchitectures, and compiler techniques.

Review Springer  / Digitally Archiving Cultural Objects Creator: Daisuke Miyazaki
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-12-10
Dewey code: 004
List Price: $149.00
Price: $103.43

Review Digitally Archiving Cultural Objects / Springer:

A large number of cultural heritage objects around the world are deteriorating or being destroyed due to the work of natural disasters, such as earthquakes and floods, and human-inflicted destruction, such as war and vandalism. In the wake of these threats, 3D data becomes a critical component to permanently recording the shapes of these important objects so that they might be passed down to future generations. Digitally Archiving Cultural Objects describes thorough research and methods for preserving cultural heritage objects through the use of 3D digital data. These methods were developed through using computer vision and computer graphics technologies. This data can also be used for simulation and restoration purposes as well as towards various multimedia applications. This comprehensive book is organized into four parts. Part 1 describes various sensors designed to obtain data. Part 2 contains a collection of papers that describe the geometric pipeline, converting obtained data into a consistent geometric model, through determining relative relations among digital data and connecting those data into a uniform representation. Part 3 concerns photometric issues, including how to map color pictures on a geometric model and how to remove the effect of sunlight in the pictures obtained. Part 4 reports on the effort to establish a digital museum to restore and display the original appearance of heritage objects as well as conduct analyses of obtained data for heritage research.

Review Springer  / Automated Web Site Evaluation: Researchers' and Practitioners' Perspectives (Human-Computer Interaction Series) Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-10-31
Dewey code: 005.72
List Price: $129.00
Price: $103.20

Review Automated Web Site Evaluation: Researchers' and Practitioners' Perspectives (Human-Computer Interaction Series) / Springer:

The Web plays a significant role in the everyday life of people, yet many sites have inadequate usability and accessibility. Automated evaluation has gained prominence as a way to help web site builders to produce more usable and accessible sites. But what does it mean to automate web site evaluation? How effective are automated evaluation approaches and tools? Where do they fit into web practitioners' work practices? This book is a culmination of over five years of Melody Ivory's research and practical experience in the Web domain. It is the first in-depth look at automated web site evaluation methodologies and existing software tools from both the researcher's and practitioner's perspectives. Ivory documents the current state of the field and highlights promising research and tool development directions. She summarizes surveys and analyses of automated web site evaluation methodologies and tools, describes a novel automated evaluation approach that she developed (the WebTango approach), and presents results from empirical studies of automated evaluation tools and of the web site design process itself. She discusses the role of automated evaluation tools in practitioners' work practices, reports on tool usage, and compares tools along several dimensions.

Review Institute of Electrical & Electronics Enginee  / The First Nasa/Dod Workshop on Evolvable Hardware: Proceedings Of, Pasadena, California July 19-21, 1999 Creator: Jason Lohn
Publication date: 2000-11
Dewey code: 658
List Price: $115.00
Price: $115.00

Review The First Nasa/Dod Workshop on Evolvable Hardware: Proceedings Of, Pasadena, California July 19-21, 1999 / Institute of Electrical & Electronics Enginee:


Review Cambridge University Press  / Digital Design for Computer Data Acquisition Publication date: 1990-06-29
Dewey code: 621.3981
List Price: $135.00
Price: $133.65

Review Digital Design for Computer Data Acquisition / Cambridge University Press:

This digital electronics text focuses on "how to" design, build, operate and adapt data acquisition systems. The material begins with basic logic gates and ends with a 40 KHz voltage measurer. The approach aims to cover a minimal number of topics in detail. The data acquisition circuits described communicate with a host computer through parallel I/O ports. The fundamental idea of the book is that parallel I/O ports (available for all popular computers) offer a superior balance of simplicity, low cost, speed, flexibility and adaptability. All circuits and software are thoroughly tested. Construction details and troubleshooting guidelines are included. This book is intended to serve people who teach or study one of the following: digital electronics, circuit design, software that interacts outside hardware, the process of computer based acquisition, and the design, adaptation, construction and testing of measurement systems.

Review Springer  / Intelligent Document Retrieval: Exploiting Markup Structure (The Information Retrieval Series) Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-12-01
Dewey code: 025.04
List Price: $129.00
Price: $103.20

Review Intelligent Document Retrieval: Exploiting Markup Structure (The Information Retrieval Series) / Springer:

Collections of digital documents can nowadays be found everywhere in institutions, universities or companies. Examples are Web sites or intranets. But searching them for information can still be painful. Searches often return either large numbers of matches or no suitable matches at all. Such document collections can vary a lot in size and how much structure they carry. What they have in common is that they typically do have some structure and that they cover a limited range of topics. The second point is significantly different from documents on the Web in general. The type of search system that we propose in this book can suggest ways of refining or relaxing the query to assist a user in the search process. In order to suggest sensible query modifications we would need to know what the documents are about. Explicit knowledge about the document collection encoded in some electronic form is what we need. [+]
However, typically such knowledge is not available. This book describes how that knowledge can be contructed automatically. This book demonstrates how document markup structure can be used to construct domain models for collections of partially structured documents shows how such knowledge can be utilized when searching the document collections presents two implemented search systems which demonstrate the usefulness of this approach.

Review Chapman & Hall/CRC  / Mathematics of Quantum Computation (Computational Mathematics) Creator: Goong Chen
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-02-14
Dewey code: 004.1
List Price: $119.95
Price: $103.07

Review Mathematics of Quantum Computation (Computational Mathematics) / Chapman & Hall/CRC:

Among the most exciting developments in science today is the design and construction of the quantum computer. Its realization will be the result of multidisciplinary efforts, but ultimately, it is mathematics that lies at the heart of theoretical quantum computer science. Mathematics of Quantum Computation brings together leading computer scientists, mathematicians, and physicists to provide the first interdisciplinary but mathematically focused exploration of the field's foundations and state of the art. Each section of the book addresses an area of major research, and does so with introductory material that brings newcomers quickly up to speed. Chapters that are more advanced include recent developments not yet published in the open literature. Information technology will inevitably enter into the realm of quantum mechanics, and, more than all the atomic, molecular, optical, and nanotechnology advances, it is the device-independent mathematics that is the foundation of quantum computer and information science. Mathematics of Quantum Computation offers the first up-to-date coverage that has the technical depth and breadth needed by those interested in the challenges being confronted at the frontiers of research.

Review Springer  / Automated Web Site Evaluation: Researchers' and Practitioners' Perspectives (Human-Computer Interaction Series) Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-10-31
Dewey code: 005.72
List Price: $129.00
Price: $103.20

Review Automated Web Site Evaluation: Researchers' and Practitioners' Perspectives (Human-Computer Interaction Series) / Springer:

The Web plays a significant role in the everyday life of people, yet many sites have inadequate usability and accessibility. Automated evaluation has gained prominence as a way to help web site builders to produce more usable and accessible sites. But what does it mean to automate web site evaluation? How effective are automated evaluation approaches and tools? Where do they fit into web practitioners' work practices? This book is a culmination of over five years of Melody Ivory's research and practical experience in the Web domain. It is the first in-depth look at automated web site evaluation methodologies and existing software tools from both the researcher's and practitioner's perspectives. Ivory documents the current state of the field and highlights promising research and tool development directions. She summarizes surveys and analyses of automated web site evaluation methodologies and tools, describes a novel automated evaluation approach that she developed (the WebTango approach), and presents results from empirical studies of automated evaluation tools and of the web site design process itself. She discusses the role of automated evaluation tools in practitioners' work practices, reports on tool usage, and compares tools along several dimensions.

Review Springer  / Digitally Archiving Cultural Objects Creator: Daisuke Miyazaki
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-12-10
Dewey code: 004
List Price: $149.00
Price: $103.43

Review Digitally Archiving Cultural Objects / Springer:

A large number of cultural heritage objects around the world are deteriorating or being destroyed due to the work of natural disasters, such as earthquakes and floods, and human-inflicted destruction, such as war and vandalism. In the wake of these threats, 3D data becomes a critical component to permanently recording the shapes of these important objects so that they might be passed down to future generations. Digitally Archiving Cultural Objects describes thorough research and methods for preserving cultural heritage objects through the use of 3D digital data. These methods were developed through using computer vision and computer graphics technologies. This data can also be used for simulation and restoration purposes as well as towards various multimedia applications. This comprehensive book is organized into four parts. Part 1 describes various sensors designed to obtain data. Part 2 contains a collection of papers that describe the geometric pipeline, converting obtained data into a consistent geometric model, through determining relative relations among digital data and connecting those data into a uniform representation. Part 3 concerns photometric issues, including how to map color pictures on a geometric model and how to remove the effect of sunlight in the pictures obtained. Part 4 reports on the effort to establish a digital museum to restore and display the original appearance of heritage objects as well as conduct analyses of obtained data for heritage research.

Review Institute of Electrical & Electronics Enginee  / The First Nasa/Dod Workshop on Evolvable Hardware: Proceedings Of, Pasadena, California July 19-21, 1999 Creator: Jason Lohn
Publication date: 2000-11
Dewey code: 658
List Price: $115.00
Price: $115.00

Review The First Nasa/Dod Workshop on Evolvable Hardware: Proceedings Of, Pasadena, California July 19-21, 1999 / Institute of Electrical & Electronics Enginee:


Review Chapman & Hall/CRC  / Mathematics of Quantum Computation (Computational Mathematics) Creator: Goong Chen
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-02-14
Dewey code: 004.1
List Price: $119.95
Price: $103.07

Review Mathematics of Quantum Computation (Computational Mathematics) / Chapman & Hall/CRC:

Among the most exciting developments in science today is the design and construction of the quantum computer. Its realization will be the result of multidisciplinary efforts, but ultimately, it is mathematics that lies at the heart of theoretical quantum computer science. Mathematics of Quantum Computation brings together leading computer scientists, mathematicians, and physicists to provide the first interdisciplinary but mathematically focused exploration of the field's foundations and state of the art. Each section of the book addresses an area of major research, and does so with introductory material that brings newcomers quickly up to speed. Chapters that are more advanced include recent developments not yet published in the open literature. Information technology will inevitably enter into the realm of quantum mechanics, and, more than all the atomic, molecular, optical, and nanotechnology advances, it is the device-independent mathematics that is the foundation of quantum computer and information science. Mathematics of Quantum Computation offers the first up-to-date coverage that has the technical depth and breadth needed by those interested in the challenges being confronted at the frontiers of research.

Review Chapman & Hall/CRC  / Speculative Execution in High Performance Computer Architectures (Chapman & Hall/Crc Computer & Information Science Series) Creator: Pen-Chung Yew
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-05-26
Dewey code: 004.35
List Price: $119.95
Price: $103.70

Review Speculative Execution in High Performance Computer Architectures (Chapman & Hall/Crc Computer & Information Science Series) / Chapman & Hall/CRC:

Until now, there were few textbooks that focused on the dynamic subject of speculative execution, a topic that is crucial to the development of high performance computer architectures. Speculative Execution in High Performance Computer Architectures describes many recent advances in speculative execution techniques. It covers cutting-edge research projects, as well as numerous commercial implementations that demonstrate the value of this latency-hiding technique. The book begins with a review of control speculation techniques that use instruction cache prefetching, branch prediction and predication, and multi-path execution. It then examines dataflow speculation techniques including data cache prefetching, address value and data value speculation, pre-computation, and coherence speculation. This textbook also explores multithreaded approaches, emphasizing profile-guided speculation, speculative microarchitectures, and compiler techniques.

Review CRC  / Decision Diagram Techniques for Micro- and Nanoelectronic Design Handbook
Authors
  • Vlad P. Shmerko
  • Svetlana N. Yanushkevich
  • Radomir S. Stankovic
  • D. Michael Miller
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-12-22
Dewey code: 621.381
List Price: $119.95
Price: $103.34

Review Decision Diagram Techniques for Micro- and Nanoelectronic Design Handbook / CRC:

Decision diagram (DD) techniques are very popular in the electronic design automation (EDA) of integrated circuits, and for good reason. They can accurately simulate logic design, can show where to make reductions in complexity, and can be easily modified to model different scenarios. Presenting DD techniques from an applied perspective, Decision Diagram Techniques for Micro- and Nanoelectronic Design Handbook provides a comprehensive, up-to-date collection of DD techniques. Experts with more than forty years of combined experience in both industrial and academic settings demonstrate how to apply the techniques to full advantage with more than 400 examples and illustrations. Beginning with the fundamental theory, data structures, and logic underlying DD techniques, they explore a breadth of topics from arithmetic and word-level representations to spectral techniques and event-driven analysis. The book also includes abundant references to more detailed information and additional applications. Decision Diagram Techniques for Micro- and Nanoelectronic Design Handbook collects the theory, methods, and practical knowledge necessary to design more advanced circuits and places it at your fingertips in a single, concise reference.

Publication date: 1989-12
Price: $56.00

Review ACM-IEEE Design Automation Conference, 26th, 1989 (26 Dac): Proceedings / IEEE Computer Society Press:


Review Cambridge University Press  / Digital Design for Computer Data Acquisition Publication date: 1990-06-29
Dewey code: 621.3981
List Price: $135.00
Price: $133.65

Review Digital Design for Computer Data Acquisition / Cambridge University Press:

This digital electronics text focuses on "how to" design, build, operate and adapt data acquisition systems. The material begins with basic logic gates and ends with a 40 KHz voltage measurer. The approach aims to cover a minimal number of topics in detail. The data acquisition circuits described communicate with a host computer through parallel I/O ports. The fundamental idea of the book is that parallel I/O ports (available for all popular computers) offer a superior balance of simplicity, low cost, speed, flexibility and adaptability. All circuits and software are thoroughly tested. Construction details and troubleshooting guidelines are included. This book is intended to serve people who teach or study one of the following: digital electronics, circuit design, software that interacts outside hardware, the process of computer based acquisition, and the design, adaptation, construction and testing of measurement systems.

Review Springer  / Intelligent Document Retrieval: Exploiting Markup Structure (The Information Retrieval Series) Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-12-01
Dewey code: 025.04
List Price: $129.00
Price: $103.20

Review Intelligent Document Retrieval: Exploiting Markup Structure (The Information Retrieval Series) / Springer:

Collections of digital documents can nowadays be found everywhere in institutions, universities or companies. Examples are Web sites or intranets. But searching them for information can still be painful. Searches often return either large numbers of matches or no suitable matches at all. Such document collections can vary a lot in size and how much structure they carry. What they have in common is that they typically do have some structure and that they cover a limited range of topics. The second point is significantly different from documents on the Web in general. The type of search system that we propose in this book can suggest ways of refining or relaxing the query to assist a user in the search process. In order to suggest sensible query modifications we would need to know what the documents are about. Explicit knowledge about the document collection encoded in some electronic form is what we need. [+]
However, typically such knowledge is not available. This book describes how that knowledge can be contructed automatically. This book demonstrates how document markup structure can be used to construct domain models for collections of partially structured documents shows how such knowledge can be utilized when searching the document collections presents two implemented search systems which demonstrate the usefulness of this approach.

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Decision Diagram Techniques for Micro- and Nanoelectronic Design Handbook, ACM-IEEE Design Automation Conference, 26th, 1989 (26 Dac): Proceedings, Circuit Simulation Methods and Algorithms (Electronic Engineering Systems), Circuit Simulation Methods and Algorithms (Electronic Engineering Systems), Speculative Execution in High Performance Computer Architectures (Chapman & Hall/Crc Computer & Information Science Series), Digitally Archiving Cultural Objects, Automated Web Site Evaluation: Researchers' and Practitioners' Perspectives (Human-Computer Interaction Series), The First Nasa/Dod Workshop on Evolvable Hardware: Proceedings Of, Pasadena, California July 19-21, 1999, Digital Design for Computer Data Acquisition, Intelligent Document Retrieval: Exploiting Markup Structure (The Information Retrieval Series), Mathematics of Quantum Computation (Computational Mathematics), Automated Web Site Evaluation: Researchers' and Practitioners' Perspectives (Human-Computer Interaction Series), Digitally Archiving Cultural Objects, The First Nasa/Dod Workshop on Evolvable Hardware: Proceedings Of, Pasadena, California July 19-21, 1999, Mathematics of Quantum Computation (Computational Mathematics), Speculative Execution in High Performance Computer Architectures (Chapman & Hall/Crc Computer & Information Science Series), Decision Diagram Techniques for Micro- and Nanoelectronic Design Handbook, ACM-IEEE Design Automation Conference, 26th, 1989 (26 Dac): Proceedings, Digital Design for Computer Data Acquisition, Intelligent Document Retrieval: Exploiting Markup Structure (The Information Retrieval Series)

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