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Books > Computing & IT > Computer hardware & operating systems > Computer architecture & logic design
The demand is exploding for complete, integrated systems that
sense, process, manipulate, and control complex entities such as
sound, images, text, motion, and environmental conditions. These
systems, from hand-held devices to automotive sub-systems to
aerospace vehicles, employ electronics to manage and adapt to a
world that is, predominantly, neither digital nor electronic.
To respond to this design challenge, the industry has developed and
standardized VHDL-AMS, a unified design language for modeling
digital, analog, mixed-signal, and mixed-technology systems.
VHDL-AMS extends VHDL to bring the successful HDL modeling
methodology of digital electronic systems design to these new
design disciplines.
Gregory Peterson and Darrell Teegarden join best-selling author
Peter Ashenden in teaching designers how to use VHDL-AMS to model
these complex systems. This comprehensive tutorial and reference
provides detailed descriptions of both the syntax and semantics of
the language and of successful modeling techniques. It assumes no
previous knowledge of VHDL, but instead teaches VHDL and VHDL-AMS
in an integrated fashion, just as it would be used by designers of
these complex, integrated systems.
* Explores the design of an electric-powered, unmanned aerial
vehicle system (UAV) in five separate case studies to illustrate
mixed-signal, mixed-technology, power systems, communication
systems, and full system modeling.
* Includes a CD-ROM with code for all the examples and case studies
in the book, an educational model library, a quick reference guide
for VHDL-AMS, a syntax reference from Appendix E in the book, links
to VHDL-AMS resources and Mentor Graphics SystemVision software,
which provides a simulation and modeling environment with a
schematic entry tool, a VHDL-AMS simulator, and a waveform viewing
facility.
Advances in Delay-Tolerant Networks: Architecture and Enhanced
Performance, Second Edition provides an important overview of
delay-tolerant networks (DTNs) for researchers in electronics,
computer engineering, telecommunications and networking for those
in academia and R&D in industrial sectors. Part I reviews the
technology involved and the prospects for improving performance,
including different types of DTN and their applications, such as
satellite and deep-space communications and vehicular
communications. Part II focuses on how the technology can be
further improved, addressing topics, such as data bundling,
opportunistic routing, reliable data streaming, and the potential
for rapid selection and dissemination of urgent messages.
Opportunistic, delay-tolerant networks address the problem of
intermittent connectivity in a network where there are long delays
between sending and receiving messages, or there are periods of
disconnection.
Shape grammar and space syntax have been separately developed but
rarely combined in any significant way. The first of these is
typically used to investigate or generate the formal or geometric
properties of architecture, while the second is used to analyze the
spatial, topological, or social properties of architecture. Despite
the reciprocal relationship between form and space in
architecture-it is difficult to conceptualize a completed building
without a sense of both of these properties-the two major
computational theories have been largely developed and applied in
isolation from each another. Grammatical and Syntactical Approaches
in Architecture: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a critical
scholarly resource that explores the relationship between shape
grammar and space syntax for urban planning and architecture and
enables the creative discovery of both the formal and spatial
features of an architectural style or type. This book, furthermore,
presents a new method to selectively capture aspects of both the
grammar and syntax of architecture. Featuring a range of topics
such as mathematical analysis, spatial configuration, and domestic
architecture, this book is essential for architects, policymakers,
urban planners, researchers, academicians, and students.
In recent years, most applications deal with constraint
decision-making systems as problems are based on imprecise
information and parameters. It is difficult to understand the
nature of data based on applications and it requires a specific
model for understanding the nature of the system. Further research
on constraint decision-making systems in engineering is required.
Constraint Decision-Making Systems in Engineering derives and
explores several types of constraint decisions in engineering and
focuses on new and innovative conclusions based on problems, robust
and efficient systems, and linear and non-linear applications.
Covering topics such as fault detection, data mining techniques,
and knowledge-based management, this premier reference source is an
essential resource for engineers, managers, computer scientists,
students and educators of higher education, librarians,
researchers, and academicians.
Distributed systems intertwine with our everyday lives. The
benefits and current shortcomings of the underpinning technologies
are experienced by a wide range of people and their smart devices.
With the rise of large-scale IoT and similar distributed systems,
cloud bursting technologies, and partial outsourcing solutions,
private entities are encouraged to increase their efficiency and
offer unparalleled availability and reliability to their users.
Applying Integration Techniques and Methods in Distributed Systems
is a critical scholarly publication that defines the current state
of distributed systems, determines further goals, and presents
architectures and service frameworks to achieve highly integrated
distributed systems and presents solutions to integration and
efficient management challenges faced by current and future
distributed systems. Highlighting topics such as multimedia,
programming languages, and smart environments, this book is ideal
for system administrators, integrators, designers, developers,
researchers, and academicians.
As technology continues to advance in today's global market,
practitioners are targeting systems with significant levels of
applicability and variance. Instrumentation is a multidisciplinary
subject that provides a wide range of usage in several professional
fields, specifically engineering. Instrumentation plays a key role
in numerous daily processes and has seen substantial advancement in
recent years. It is of utmost importance for engineering
professionals to understand the modern developments of instruments
and how they affect everyday life. Advancements in Instrumentation
and Control in Applied System Applications is a collection of
innovative research on the methods and implementations of
instrumentation in real-world practices including communication,
transportation, and biomedical systems. While highlighting topics
including smart sensor design, medical image processing, and atrial
fibrillation, this book is ideally designed for researchers,
software engineers, technologists, developers, scientists,
designers, IT professionals, academicians, and post-graduate
students seeking current research on recent developments within
instrumentation systems and their applicability in daily life.
Recent years have witnessed the rise of analysis of real-world
massive and complex phenomena in graphs; to efficiently solve these
large-scale graph problems, it is necessary to exploit high
performance computing (HPC), which accelerates the innovation
process for discovery and invention of new products and procedures
in network science. Creativity in Load-Balance Schemes for
Multi/Many-Core Heterogeneous Graph Computing: Emerging Research
and Opportunities is a critical scholarly resource that examines
trends, challenges, and collaborative processes in emerging fields
within complex network analysis. Featuring coverage on a broad
range of topics such as high-performance computing, big data,
network science, and accelerated network traversal, this book is
geared towards data analysts, researchers, students in information
communication technology (ICT), program developers, and academics.
For courses in Logic and Computer design. Understanding Logic and
Computer Design for All Audiences Logic and Computer Design
Fundamentals is a thoroughly up-to-date text that makes logic
design, digital system design, and computer design available to
students of all levels. The Fifth Edition brings this widely
recognised source to modern standards by ensuring that all
information is relevant and contemporary. The material focuses on
industry trends and successfully bridges the gap between the much
higher levels of abstraction students in the field must work with
today than in the past. Broadly covering logic and computer design,
Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals is a flexibly organised
source material that allows instructors to tailor its use to a wide
range of student audiences.
Though traditionally information systems have been centralized,
these systems are now distributed over the web. This requires a
re-investigation into the way information systems are modeled and
designed. Because of this new function, critical problems,
including security, never-fail systems, and quality of service have
begun to emerge. Novel Approaches to Information Systems Design is
an essential publication that explores the most recent,
cutting-edge research in information systems and exposes the reader
to emerging but relatively mature models and techniques in the
area. Highlighting a wide range of topics such as big data,
business intelligence, and energy efficiency, this publication is
ideally designed for managers, administrators, system developers,
information system engineers, researchers, academicians, and
graduate-level students seeking coverage on critical components of
information systems.
Present day sophisticated, adaptive, and autonomous (to a certain
degree) robotic technology is a radically new stimulus for the
cognitive system of the human learner from the earliest to the
oldest age. It deserves extensive, thorough, and systematic
research based on novel frameworks for analysis, modelling,
synthesis, and implementation of CPSs for social applications.
Cyber-Physical Systems for Social Applications is a critical
scholarly book that examines the latest empirical findings for
designing cyber-physical systems for social applications and aims
at forwarding the symbolic human-robot perspective in areas that
include education, social communication, entertainment, and
artistic performance. Highlighting topics such as evolinguistics,
human-robot interaction, and neuroinformatics, this book is ideally
designed for social network developers, cognitive scientists,
education science experts, evolutionary linguists, researchers, and
academicians.
The Physics of Computing gives a foundational view of the physical
principles underlying computers. Performance, power, thermal
behavior, and reliability are all harder and harder to achieve as
transistors shrink to nanometer scales. This book describes the
physics of computing at all levels of abstraction from single gates
to complete computer systems. It can be used as a course for
juniors or seniors in computer engineering and electrical
engineering, and can also be used to teach students in other
scientific disciplines important concepts in computing. For
electrical engineering, the book provides the fundamentals of
computing that link core concepts to computing. For computer
science, it provides foundations of key challenges such as power
consumption, performance, and thermal. The book can also be used as
a technical reference by professionals.
This book is a celebration of Leslie Lamport's work on concurrency,
interwoven in four-and-a-half decades of an evolving industry: from
the introduction of the first personal computer to an era when
parallel and distributed multiprocessors are abundant. His works
lay formal foundations for concurrent computations executed by
interconnected computers. Some of the algorithms have become
standard engineering practice for fault tolerant distributed
computing - distributed systems that continue to function correctly
despite failures of individual components. He also developed a
substantial body of work on the formal specification and
verification of concurrent systems, and has contributed to the
development of automated tools applying these methods. Part I
consists of technical chapters of the book and a biography. The
technical chapters of this book present a retrospective on
Lamport's original ideas from experts in the field. Through this
lens, it portrays their long-lasting impact. The chapters cover
timeless notions Lamport introduced: the Bakery algorithm, atomic
shared registers and sequential consistency; causality and logical
time; Byzantine Agreement; state machine replication and Paxos;
temporal logic of actions (TLA). The professional biography tells
of Lamport's career, providing the context in which his work arose
and broke new grounds, and discusses LaTeX - perhaps Lamport's most
influential contribution outside the field of concurrency. This
chapter gives a voice to the people behind the achievements,
notably Lamport himself, and additionally the colleagues around
him, who inspired, collaborated, and helped him drive worldwide
impact. Part II consists of a selection of Leslie Lamport's most
influential papers. This book touches on a lifetime of
contributions by Leslie Lamport to the field of concurrency and on
the extensive influence he had on people working in the field. It
will be of value to historians of science, and to researchers and
students who work in the area of concurrency and who are interested
to read about the work of one of the most influential researchers
in this field.
Intelligent systems and related designs have become important
instruments leading to profound innovations in automated control
and interaction with computers and machines. Such systems depend
upon established methods and tools for solving complex learning and
decision-making problems under uncertain and continuously varying
conditions. Intelligent Applications for Heterogeneous System
Modeling and Design examines the latest developments in intelligent
system engineering being used across industries with an emphasis on
transportation, aviation, and medicine. Focusing on the latest
trends in artificial intelligence, systems design and testing, and
related topic areas, this publication is designed for use by
engineers, IT specialists, academicians, and graduate-level
students.
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