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At the dawn of the great ice age, a group of three animals embark
upon an epic journey. Sid the sloth, Manfred the mammal, and Diego
the sabre-toothed tiger team up to help return a human baby to its
father, and must risk life and limb as they traverse boiling lava
pits and travel through dangerous ice caves to complete their
mission. Along the way they also meet Scrat, a squirrel-rat
determined to plant an acorn in a glacier. Features the voices of
John Leguizamo, Denis Leary and Jack Black.
This is a hand-puppet board book which is part of the successful
series with "Let's Count!", "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" and "Merry
Christmas" (Oct-06). With an adorable piggy face on each fingertip
and a board book attached to the palm, this soft hand-puppet is the
perfect way to play and read with your baby!
This title includes 5 adorable farm-animal faces top each finger of
a velour glove puppet that features a small board book attached to
the palm. Parents can quack-quack, oink-oink, moo-moo, meow-meow,
and woof-woof while they manipulate the five farm animal finger
puppets: a duck, a pig, a cow, a cat, and a dog. Using the soft,
colorful hand puppet, parents and children can make the fingertip
critters come to life. And the board book, featuring the well-known
nursery song, conveniently nestled in the palm of the puppet,
making the entire package self-contained and perfect for reading
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A collection of children's animated adventures from the Blue Sky
studios. In 'Epic' (2013), Mary Katherine (voice of Amanda
Seyfried) lives in a cabin in the woods with her eccentric father,
Professor Bomba (Jason Sudeikis), who studies the local fauna. One
day, when he doesn't return from a hike in the forest, she sets out
to find him, inadvertently stumbling across some strange glowing
leaves. Clutching one, Mary Katherine is shrunken down to the
forest floor, where, after meeting up with a group of warriors
known as the Leafmen, she finds herself helping her new friends in
their war to save their world from the clutches of the evil
Boggans. In 'Horton Hears a Who!' (2008), a jungle elephant named
Horton (Jim Carrey) discovers a race of tiny beings living in a
solitary dandelion. Recognising the dangers they face, the friendly
pachyderm resolves to keep his microscopic pals safe. However, as
Horton is the only one who hears the inhabitants of 'Whoville', his
other animal pals are convinced he's gone crazy and resolve to do
something about it. Horton and his miniscule friends must struggle
against these impossible odds to prevent disaster. In 'Ice Age'
(2002), a group of three animals embark upon an epic journey at the
dawn of the great ice age. Sid the sloth (John Leguizamo), Manfred
the woolly mammoth (Ray Romano), and Diego the sabre-toothed tiger
(Denis Leary) team up to help return a human baby to its father,
and must risk life and limb as they traverse boiling lava pits and
travel through dangerous ice caves to complete their mission. In
'Ice Age 2: The Meltdown' (2006), Manny is ready to start a family,
but nobody has seen another mammoth for a long time; in fact, Manny
thinks he may be the last one. That is until he miraculously finds
Ellie (Queen Latifah), the only female mammoth left in the world.
The only problem is, they can't stand each other... In 'Ice Age 3:
Dawn of the Dinosaurs' (2009), Scrat the squirrel (Chris Wedge) is
still trying to get his paws on that ever-elusive nut, Manny and
Ellie anxiously await the birth of their mini-mammoth, and Diego
wonders if he's growing too laid-back living the life of a pampered
house cat. Meanwhile, Sid the sloth gets into trouble when he
creates his own makeshift family by hijacking some unusually large
eggs, and inadvertently discovers a mysterious underground world
where dinosaurs still roam. In 'Ice Age 4: Continental Drift'
(2012), when the entire continent is set adrift following a global
cataclysm, Manny, Diego and Sid find themselves separated from the
rest of the herd. Commandeering a nearby iceberg as a makeshift
boat, they take to the high seas. Fearsome sea creatures and
battlethirsty pirates are among the challenges faced by the
intrepid trio as they ride the waves of the world in search of
their family. In 'Rio' (2011), Blu (Jesse Eisenberg) is a rare
macaw living in a bookshop in small-town Minnesota. Believing
himself to be the last of his kind, he is thrilled to hear that a
female macaw of the same species has been spotted in South America.
Blu must now overcome his social ineptitude and fear of flying and
set out for Rio de Janeiro to track down the feisty and independent
Jewel (Anne Hathaway) and try to win her heart. Finally, in
'Robots' (2005), Rodney Copperbottom (Ewan McGregor) is a small
town robot who has a gift for inventing things and a hope of moving
beyond his quaint surroundings. Dreaming of doing something better
than working alongside his dad in a restaurant, Rodney, armed with
his unique talent for inventing, embarks on a journey to Robot City
to meet his idol, the majestic inventor Bigweld (Mel Brooks).
Double-bill of animated movies about a gang of prehistoric animals
who become close friends. In 'Ice Age' (2002), the story begins at
the dawn of the great ice age, when a group of three animals embark
upon an epic journey. Sid the sloth, Manfred the mammal, and Diego
the sabre-toothed tiger team up to help return a human baby to its
father, and must risk life and limb as they traverse boiling lava
pits and travel through dangerous ice caves to complete their
mission. Along the way they also meet Scrat, a squirrel-rat
determined to plant an acorn in a glacier. The film features the
voices of John Leguizamo, Denis Leary and Jack Black. In 'Ice Age 2
- The Meltdown' (2006), Manny the woolly mammoth (voice of Ray
Romano), Sid the sloth (Leguizamo), Diego the saber-toothed tiger
(Leary), and the hapless prehistoric squirrel/rat known as Scrat
(Chris Wedge) are back in this sequel to the popular 2002 film.
Manny is ready to start a family, but nobody has seen another
mammoth for a long time. In fact, Manny thinks he may be the last
one. That is until he miraculously finds Ellie (Queen Latifah), the
only female mammoth left in the world. The only problem being that
they can't stand each other. Ellie comes with some excess baggage
in the form of her two possum friends, Crash (Seann William Scott)
and Eddie (Josh Peck), a couple of daredevil pranksters and cocky,
loud-mouthed troublemakers. When a huge glacial dam holding off
oceans of water is about to break, threatening the entire valley,
the only chance of survival lies at the other end of the valley. So
our three heroes, along with Ellie, Crash and Eddie, form the most
unlikely family as they embark on a mission across an
ever-changing, increasingly dangerous landscape.
Models in System Design tracks the general trend in electronics in
terms of size, complexity and difficulty of maintenance. System
design is by nature combined with prototyping, mixed domain design,
and verification, and it is no surprise that today's modeling and
models are used in various levels of system design and
verification. In order to deal with constraints induced by volume
and complexity, new methods and techniques have been defined.
Models in System Design provides an overview of the latest modeling
techniques for use by system designers. The first part of the book
considers system level design, discussing such issues as
abstraction, performance and trade-offs. There is also a section on
automating system design. The second part of the book deals with
some of the newest aspects of embedded system design. These include
co-verification and prototyping. Finally, the book includes a
section on the use of the MCSE methodology for hardware/software
co-design. Models in System Design will help designers and
researchers to understand these latest techniques in system design
and as such will be of interest to all involved in embedded system
design.
One of the main applications of VHDL is the synthesis of electronic
circuits. Circuit Synthesis with VHDL is an introduction to the use
of VHDL logic (RTL) synthesis tools in circuit design. The modeling
styles proposed are independent of specific market tools and focus
on constructs widely recognized as synthesizable by synthesis
tools. A statement of the prerequisites for synthesis is followed
by a short introduction to the VHDL concepts used in synthesis.
Circuit Synthesis with VHDL presents two possible approaches to
synthesis: the first starts with VHDL features and derives hardware
counterparts; the second starts from a given hardware component and
derives several description styles. The book also describes how to
introduce the synthesis design cycle into existing design
methodologies and the standard synthesis environment. Circuit
Synthesis with VHDL concludes with a case study providing a
realistic example of the design flow from behavioral description
down to the synthesized level. Circuit Synthesis with VHDL is
essential reading for all students, researchers, design engineers
and managers working with VHDL in a synthesis environment.
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Michael Berg, O C Berg, C. F. Schmidt, Arthur Meyer, K Schumann
Verlag von Arthur Felix, 1893 Botany, Medical
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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++++ Atlas Der Officinellen Pflanzen: Die Monocotyledoneen,
Gymnospermen Und Kryptogamen Mit Tafel CXXXIII-CLXII. (1902);
Volume 4 Of Atlas Der Officinellen Pflanzen: Darstellung Und
Beschreibung Der Im Arzneibuche F�r Das Deutsche Reich Erw�hnten
Gew�chse; Michael Berg 2 Michael Berg, C. F. Schmidt, Arthur Meyer
Verlag von Arthur Felix, 1902 Botany, Medical
Hardware description languages (HDL) such as VHDL and Verilog have
found their way into almost every aspect of the design of digital
hardware systems. Since their inception they gradually proved to be
an essential part of modern design methodologies and design
automation tools, ever exceeding their original goals of being
description and simulation languages. Their use for automatic
synthesis, formal proof, and testing are good examples. So far,
HDLs have been mainly dealing with digital systems. However,
integrated systems designed today require more and more analog
parts such as A/D and D/A converters, phase locked loops, current
mirrors, etc. The verification of the complete system therefore
asks for the use of a single language. Using VHDL or Verilog to
handle analog descriptions is possible, as it is shown in this
book, but the real power is coming from true mixed-signal HDLs that
integrate discrete and continuous semantics into a unified
framework. Analog HDLs (AHDL) are considered here a subset of
mixed-signal HDLs as they intend to provide the same level of
features as HDLs do but with a scope limited to analog systems,
possibly with limited support of discrete semantics. Analog and
Mixed-Signal Hardware Description Languages covers several aspects
related to analog and mixed-signal hardware description languages
including: The use of a digital HDL for the description and the
simulation of analog systems The emergence of extensions of
existing standard HDLs that provide true analog and mixed-signal
HDLs. The use of analog and mixed-signal HDLs for the development
of behavioral models of analog (electronic) building blocks
(operational amplifier, PLL) and for the design of microsystems
that do not only involve electronic parts. The use of a front-end
tool that eases the description task with the help of a graphical
paradigm, yet generating AHDL descriptions automatically. Analog
and Mixed-Signal Hardware Description Languages is the first book
to show how to use these new hardware description languages in the
design of electronic components and systems. It is necessary
reading for researchers and designers working in electronic design.
An open process of restandardization, conducted by the IEEE, has
led to the definitions of the new VHDL standard. The changes make
VHDL safer, more portable, and more powerful. VHDL also becomes
bigger and more complete. The canonical simulator of VHDL is
enriched by new mechanisms, the predefined environment is more
complete, and the syntax is more regular and flexible.
Discrepancies and known bugs of VHDL'87 have been fixed. However,
the new VHDL'92 is compatible with VHDL'87, with some minor
exceptions. This book presents the new VHDL'92 for the VHDL
designer. New features ar explained and classified. Examples are
provided, each new feature is given a rationale and its impact on
design methodology, and performance is analysed. Where appropriate,
pitfalls and traps are explained. The VHDL designer will quickly be
able to find the feature needed to evaluate the benefits it brings,
to modify previous VHDL'87 code to make it more efficient, more
portable, and more flexible. VHDL'92 is the essential update for
all VHDL designers and managers involved in electronic design.
Modeling in Analog Design highlights some of the most pressing
issues in the use of modeling techniques for design of analogue
circuits. Using models for circuit design gives designers the power
to express directly the behaviour of parts of a circuit in addition
to using other pre-defined components. There are numerous
advantages to this new category of analog behavioral language. In
the short term, by favouring the top-down design and raising the
level of description abstraction, this approach provides greater
freedom of implementation and a higher degree of technology
independence. In the longer term, analog synthesis and formal
optimisation are targeted. Modeling in Analog Design introduces the
reader to two main language standards: VHDL-A and MHDL. It goes on
to provide in-depth examples of the use of these languages to model
analog devices. The final part is devoted to the very important
topic of modeling the thermal and electrothermal aspects of
devices. This book is essential reading for analog designers using
behavioral languages and analog CAD tool development environments
who have to provide the tools used by the designers.
Model Generation in Electronic Design covers a wide range of model
applications and research. The book begins by describing a model
generator to create component models. It goes on to discuss ASIC
design and ASIC library generation. This section includes chapters
on the requirements for developing and ASIC library, a case study
in which VITAL is used to create such a library, and the analysis
and description of the accuracy required in modeling
interconnections in ASIC design. Other chapters describe the
development of thermal models for electronic devices, the
development of a set of model packages for VHDL floating point
operations, a techniques for model validation and verification, and
a tool for model encryption. Model Generation in Electronic Design
is an essential update for users, vendors, model producers,
technical managers, designers and researchers working in electronic
design.
too vast, too complex, too grand ... for description. John Wesley
Powell-1870 (discovering the Grand Canyon) VHDL is a big world. A
beginner can be easily disappointed by the generality of this
language. This generality is explained by the large number of
domains covered - from specifications to logical simulation or
synthesis. To the very beginner, VHDL appears as a "kit". He is
quickly aware that his problem may be solved with VHDL, but does
not know how. He does not even know how to start. In this state of
mind, all the constraints that can be set to his modeling job, by
using a subset of the language or a given design methodology, may
be seen as a life preserver. The success of the introduction of
VHDL in a company depends on solutions to many questions that
should be answered months before the first line of code is written:
* Why choose VHDL? * Which VHDL tools should be chosen? * Which
modeling methodology should be adopted? * How should the VHDL
environment be customized? * What are the tricks? Where are the
traps? * What are the differences between VHDL and other competing
HDLs? Answers to these questions are organized according to
different concerns: buying the tools, organizing the environment,
and designing. Decisions taken in each of these areas may have many
consequences on the way to the acceptance and efficiently use of
VHDL in a company.
A reactive system is one that is in continual interaction with its
environment and executes at a pace determined by that environment.
Examples of reactive systems are network protocols, air-traffic
control systems, industrial-process control systems etc. Reactive
systems are ubiquitous and represent an important class of systems.
Due to their complex nature, such systems are extremely difficult
to specify and implement. Many reactive systems are employed in
highly-critical applications, making it crucial that one considers
issues such as reliability and safety while designing such systems.
The design of reactive systems is considered to be problematic, and
p.oses one of the greatest challenges in the field of system design
and development. In this paper, we discuss specification-modeling
methodologies for reactive systems. Specification modeling is an
important stage in reactive system design where the designer
specifies the desired properties of the reactive system in the form
of a specification model. This specification model acts as the
guidance and source for the implementation. To develop the
specification model of complex systems in an organized manner,
designers resort to specification modeling methodologies. In the
context of reactive systems, we can call such methodologies
reactive-system specification modeling methodologies.
In system design, generation of high-level abstract models that can
be closely associated with evolving lower-level models provides
designers with the ability to incrementally test' an evolving
design against a model of a specification. Such high-level models
may deal with areas such as performance, reliability, availability,
maintainability, and system safety. Abstract models also allow
exploration of the hardware versus software design space in an
incremental fashion as a fuller, detailed design unfolds, leaving
behind the old practice of hardware-software binding too early in
the design process. Such models may also allow the inclusion of
non-functional aspects of design (e.g. space, power, heat) in a
simulatable information model dealing with the system's operation.
This book addresses Model Generation and Application specifically
in the following domains: Specification modeling (linking
object/data modeling, behavior modeling, and activity modeling).
Operational specification modeling (modeling the way the system is
supposed to operate - from a user's viewpoint). Linking
non-functional parameters with specification models. Hybrid
modeling (linking performance and functional elements). Application
of high-level modeling to hardware/software approaches.
Mathematical analysis techniques related to the modeling
approaches. Reliability modeling. Applications of High Level
Modeling. Reducing High Level Modeling to Practice. High-Level
System Modeling: Specification and Design Methodologies describes
the latest research and practice in the modeling of electronic
systems and as such is an important update for all researchers,
design engineers and technical managers working in design
automation and circuit design.
Object-oriented techniques and languages have been proven to
significantly increase engineering efficiency in software
development. Many benefits are expected from their introduction
into electronic modeling. Among them are better support for model
reusability and flexibility, more efficient system modeling, and
more possibilities in design space exploration and prototyping.
Object-Oriented Modeling explores the latest techniques in
object-oriented methods, formalisms and hardware description
language extensions. The seven chapters comprising this book
provide an overview of the latest object-oriented techniques for
designing systems and hardware. Many examples are given in C++,
VHDL and real-time programming languages. Object-Oriented Modeling
describes further the use of object-oriented techniques in
applications such as embedded systems, telecommunications and
real-time systems, using the very latest techniques in
object-oriented modeling. It is an essential guide to researchers,
practitioners and students involved in software, hardware and
system design.
Models in system design follow the general tendency in electronics
in terms of size, complexity and difficulty of maintenance. While a
model should be a manageable representation of a system, this
increasing complexity sometimes forces current CAD-tool designers
and model writers to apply modeling techniques to the model itself.
Model writers are interested in instrumenting their model, so as to
extract critical information before the model is complete. CAD
tools designers use internal representations of the design at
various stages. The complexity has also led CAD-tool developers to
develop formal tools, theories and methods to improve relevance,
completeness and consistency of those internal representations.
Information modeling involves the representation of objects, their
properties and relationships. Performance Modeling When it comes to
design choices and trade-offs, performance is generally the final
key. However performance estimations have to be extracted at a very
early stage in the system design. Performance modeling concerns the
set of tools and techniques that allow or help the designer to
capture metrics relating to future architectures. Performance
modeling encompasses the whole system, including software modeling.
It has a strong impact on all levels of design choices, from
hardware/software partitioning to the final layout. Information
Modeling Specification and formalism have in the past traditionally
played little part in the design and development of EDA systems,
their support environments, languages and processes. Instead, EDA
system developers and EDA system users have seemed to be content to
operate within environments that are often extremely complex and
may be poorly tested and understood. This situation has now begun
to change with the increasing use of techniques drawn from the
domains of formal specification and database design. This section
of this volume addresses aspects of the techniques being used. In
particular, it considers a specific formalism, called information
modeling, which has gained increasing acceptance recently and is
now a key part of many of the proposals in the EDA Standards
Roadmap, which promises to be of significance to the EDA industry.
In addition, the section looks at an example of a design system
from the point of view of its underlying understanding of the
design process rather than through a consideration of particular
CAD algorithms. Meta-Modeling: Performance and Information Modeling
contains papers describing the very latest techniques used in
meta-modeling. It will be a valuable text for researchers,
practitioners and students involved in Electronic Design
Automation.
Hardware Component Modeling highlights the current status of the
modeling of electronic components. It includes contributions from
many of the leading researchers and practitioners in the field. The
contents focus on four important topics. Standards: Three chapters
describe current developments in employing standards for the use of
component libraries. A major part of these chapters provides an
excellent introduction to VITAL (an IEEE standard), its application
and some of the issues in using and implementing it. There are,
however, other standards with a role to play and these are also
covered. Data Types: One chapter describes the latest techniques
for using data types in modeling and simulation. Model Generation:
One chapter describes a model generator for reusable component
models and another describes a generator which takes actual
physical data as its source and generates a functional model.
Quality Assurance: Two chapters are devoted to improving the
quality of models. One introduces a method for quantifying aspects
of model quality and the other introduces quality concepts which
can lead to an increase in model value through reuse and
robustness.Hardware Component Modeling is a valuable reference for
researchers and practitioners involved in the process of modeling
electronic components.
Co-Design is the set of emerging techniques which allows for the
simultaneous design of Hardware and Software. In many cases where
the application is very demanding in terms of various performances
(time, surface, power consumption), trade-offs between dedicated
hardware and dedicated software are becoming increasingly difficult
to decide upon in the early stages of a design. Verification
techniques - such as simulation or proof techniques - that have
proven necessary in the hardware design must be dramatically
adapted to the simultaneous verification of Software and Hardware.
Describing the latest tools available for both Co-Design and
Co-Verification of systems, Hardware/Software Co-Design and
Co-Verification offers a complete look at this evolving set of
procedures for CAD environments. The book considers all trade-offs
that have to be made when co-designing a system. Several models are
presented for determining the optimum solution to any co-design
problem, including partitioning, architecture synthesis and code
generation. When deciding on trade-offs, one of the main factors to
be considered is the flow of communication, especially to and from
the outside world. This involves the modeling of communication
protocols. An approach to the synthesis of interface circuits in
the context of co-design is presented. Other chapters present a
co-design oriented flexible component data-base and retrieval
methods; a case study of an ethernet bridge, designed using LOTOS
and co-design methodologies and finally a programmable user
interface based on monitors. Hardware/Software Co-Design and
Co-Verification will help designers and researchers to understand
these latest techniques in system design and as such will be of
interest to all involved in embedded system design.
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