Problems and Solutions in Electronics

This book of problems with worked solutions is designed to provide practice in problem solving for students on undergraduate and HND programmes in Electronics. It may be used as a stand-alone book or as a companion volume to Electronics by Crecraft, Gorham and Sparkes (Chapman Hall, 1992)

Electrical Technology

Signaltheorie: Grundlagen der Signalbeschreibung, Filterb?nke, Wavelets, Zeit-Frequenz-Analyse, Parameter- und Signalsch?tzung

Das vorliegende Buch gibt einen systematischen Einstieg in die Signaltheorie und behandelt sowohl die in der Ingenieur-Literatur ��blichen Werkzeuge zur Signal- und Systembeschreibung als auch die mathematischen Konzepte zum Umgang mit Vektoren. Der Inhalt reicht von klassischen Transformationen ��ber Wavelet-Transformationen und nichtlineare Zeit-Frequenz-Analyseverfahren bis hin zu optimalen Transformationen f��r zuf?llige Signale. Die Methoden werden dabei anhand zahlreicher Anwendungsbeispiele aus den Bereichen der Informationsverarbeitung, Signalkompression, Spektralanalyse, St?rger?uschreduktion und Parametersch?tzung illustriert. Inhalt Signale und Signalr?ume ? Prinzipien der Signaltransformation ? Kontinuierliche und diskrete Signale und Systeme ? Ausgew?hlte diskrete Transformationen ? Charakterisierung und Transformation zuf?lliger Prozesse ? Filterb?nke ? Kurzzeit-Fourier-Transformation ? Wavelet-Transformation ? Nichtlineare Zeit-Frequenz-Verteilungen ? Parameter- und Signalsch?tzung ? Mehrkanalige Systeme Zielgruppe Studierende der Fachrichtungen Elektrotechnik, Informationstechnik und Informatik an Universit?ten Forscher und Entwickler im Bereich der Signalverarbeitung Autor Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alfred Mertins ist Direktor des Instituts f��r Signalverarbeitung und Prozessrechentechnik an der Universit?t zu L��beck.

New Horizons in Mobile and Wireless Communications: Ad Hoc Networks and PANs (Vol 4)

Based on cutting-edge research projects in the field, this comprehensive 4-volume book series provides the latest details and covers the most impactful aspects of mobile, wireless, and broadband communications development. These books present key systems and enabling technologies in a clear and accessible manner, offering you a detailed roadmap the future evolution of next generation communications. Drawing upon the insights of leading experts in the field, each of the four volumes is dedicated to an area of critical importance, including Radio Interfaces; Networks, Services and Applications; Reconfigurability; and Ad Hoc Networks.

The Internet of Things: 20th Tyrrhenian Workshop on Digital Communications

This book presents a selection of papers submitted to the 20th Tyrrhenian Workshop, which took place in September 2009 in Sardinia, Italy. The workshop focused on the quot;Internet of Things.quot; This subject is quickly emerging in the wireless technology arena. It describes the pervasive presence of a variety of devices��such as sensors, actuators, and mobile phones��which, through unique addressing schemes, are able to interact and cooperate with each other to reach common goals. This novel paradigm, which originated from the idea of quot;smartquot; environments, will be sure to impact the future of logistics, Intelligent Transportation Systems, business and process management, assisted living, E-health, and other applications.
The Internet of Things covers a wide array of essential topics related to this emerging paradigm, including infrastructures and applications, communication systems and network architectures, embedded systems, and location and tracking through navigation sensors. It also addresses the technological and social implications of this technology, as well as challenges that may arise..

LEGO Software Power Tools, With LDraw, MLCad, and LPub

Create Virtual 3D LEGO Models Using LEGO Software Power Tools
LEGO Master Builders have created a powerful set of tools that are distributed as freeware to the LEGO community to assist LEGO fans in their building adventures. Until now, these tools have been difficult to find, and even more difficult to configure to work with one another. Here, in one book, readers will find steps for installing and using all of the most popular LEGO freeware applications. Also, all of the applications are consolidated into one simple-to-install program that allows readers to be up and running in minutes..

Analog Electronics

Feedback Amplifiers
Classification, Feedback concept, Transfer gain with feedback, General characteristics of negative feedback amplifiers. Analysis of voltage-series, Voltage-Shunt, Current-series and current-shunt feedback amplifier. Stability criterion.
Oscillators
Classification, Criterion for oscillation. Tuned collector, Hartley, Colpitts, RC Phase shift, Wien bridge and crystal oscillators, Astable, Monostable and bistable multivibrators. Schmitt trigger, Blocking oscillators.
High Frequency Amplifiers
Hybrid Pi model, Conductances and capacitances of hybrid Pi model, High frequency analysis of CE amplifier, Gain-bandwidth product. Emitter follower at high frequencies.
Tuned Amplifier
Band pass amplifier, Parallel resonant circuits, Bandwidth of parallel resonant circuit. Analysis of single tuned amplifier, Primary and secondary tuned amplifier with BJT and FET. Double tuned transformer coupled amplifier, Stagger tuned amplifier. Pulse response of such amplifier, Shunt peaked circuits for increased bandwidth.
Power Amplifiers
Power amplifier circuits, Class A output stage, Class B output stage and class AB output stages, Class C amplifiers, Push pull amplifiers with and without transformers. Complementary symmetry and quasi complementary symmetry amplifiers.

Electrical Engineering License: Problems and Solutions, 8 Ed

This companion volume to Electrical Engineering License Review presents the main book's end-of-chapter problems with detailed step-by-step solutions. A sample exam, also with step-by-step solutions, is included. 100% problems and solutions.

Essential Retro: The Vintage Technology Guide by James B Grahame

Join retrothing.com author James Grahame as he introduces you to some dazzling devices from years past. You��ll encounter hundreds of vintage and neo-retro cameras, audio components, televisions, computers, video games, vehicles, toys, electronic musical instruments and mechanical gadgets. This is a fantastic opportunity to revisit a bygone age of elegant mechanics and hand-drawn design.
Many brilliant old machines are hidden away in attics and garages throughout the world �C forgotten movie cameras lie on dusty shelves beside obsolete computers and clever mechanical toys, all crying out to be rediscovered and brought back to life. The wonderful contraptions on these pages will capture your imagination and encourage you to explore the world of classic technology.

Sensor Networks: Where Theory Meets Practice (Signals and Communication Technology)

This book collects very recent results in the realm of sensor networking. In particular, it links the theory of sensor networking with practical and implementation aspects. Such, it highlights how sensor networking represents a very interesting research/application area, allowing a researcher to apply his theories and a practitioner to quot;seequot; the theories behind his/her used technologies.

Handbook of Electronic and Photonic Materials

The Springer Handbook of Electronic and Photonic Materials has been prepared to give a broad coverage of a wide range of electronic and photonic materials, starting from fundamentals and building up to advanced topics and applications. Its wide coverage with clear illustrations and applications, its chapter sequencing and logical flow, make it very different than other electronic materials handbooks. Each chapter has been prepared either by experts in the field or instructors who have been teaching the subject at a university or in corporate laboratories.

The handbook provides an accessible treatment of the material by developing the subject matter in easy steps and in a logical flow. Wherever possible, the sections have been logically sequenced to allow a partial coverage at the beginning of the chapter for those who only need a quick overview of the subject. Additional valuable features include the practical applications used as examples, details on experimental techniques, useful tables that summarize equations, and, most importantly, properties of various materials.

The handbook also has an extensive glossary at the end being helpful to those readers whose background may not be directly in the field.

Key Topics

Fundamental Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Properties
Materials Growth and Characterization
Materials for Electronics
Materials for Optoelectronics and Photonics
Novel Materials
Selected Applications

Features

Contains over 600 two-color illustrations
Includes over 100 comprehensive tables summarizing equations, experimental techniques and properties of various materials
Emphasizes physical concepts over extensive mathematical derivations
Parts and chapters with summaries, detailed index and fully searchable CD-ROM guarantee quick access to data and links to other sources
Delivers a wealth of up-to-date references
Incorporates a detailed Glossary of Terms..

Electronics One

This book and it's companion volume: quot;Electronics One-Sevenquot;, Use the concept of introducing quot;one concept per pagequot; The idea is ,for you to quot;Absorbquot; the Contents of Each page, before you move on to the more advanced material. This Book is Very Well Written and the Author Publisher provide detailed diagrams on each page to assist you in understanding retaining the material.

CWAP - Certified Wireless Analysis Professional Official Study Guide

Master the material and pass the test. Get the inside track on a brand new certificationCertified Wireless Analysis Professionalfor wireless networking, a burgeoning technology offering great opportunities for those who know how to install, configure, and utilize it. Written by Planet3 Wireless, the company that created the CWAP certification, this official guide provides more than twice as many practice questions as are on the actual exam..

LTE and the Evolution to 4G Wireless: Design and Measurement Challenges

The Next Generation: Wireless Communications for Multimedia and Beyond

From both a technical and a practical point of view, there is much to examine, evaluate and understand in the new 3GPP LTE cellular technology before its projected deployment in 2010. This book, written by Agilent engineers in collaboration with Anite engineers and LTE expert Dr K. F. Tsang, offers valuable insight into the LTE air interface at the physical layer. Chapters also cover the upper layer signalling and system architecture evolution (SAE). Basic concepts such as MIMO and SC-FDMA, the new uplink modulation scheme, are introduced and explained, and the authors dig into the challenges of verifying the designs of the receivers, transmitters and protocols of LTE systems. The latest information on RF and signalling conformance testing is delivered by authors participating in the 3GPP standards committees.


Summary: Superb account of LTE
Rating: 5

This book is an extremely well written account of LTE, with the emphasis on the design and implementation of the air interface physical layer.

Chapters 1 to 5 give the reader a clear, concise account of the 3GPP specifications for LTE. Unusually for a telecommunications book, the material is extremely well written and easy to read, indicating a lot of care by the editor and authors. The information is quite densely packed and really requires previous knowledge of 3G, but is probably the most effective account of LTE that I have so far read.

My one suggestion for improvement lies in chapters 4 and 5, where I would have appreciated some use cases to illustrate how the different procedures and network elements interact. But this is not an important issue, and does not affect my overall rating.

The book really comes in to its own in chapters 6 and 7, which cover material relevant to design and implementation that lies outside the scope of the specifications. Especially valuable was a 60 page account of the characterisation and measurement of the transmitter and receiver, reinforced by signal analyser plots that illustrate what the main signal impairments actually look like. A concluding chapter describes the enhancements that are being made in LTE-Advanced, to meet the ITU's requirements for 4G.

Because of the material in chapters 6 and 7, this book will be especially valuable to those who are working on the lower parts of the LTE physical layer. However I would wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone who requires a clearly written introduction to LTE.

Pipelined ADC Design and Enhancement Techniques

Pipelined ADCs have seen phenomenal improvements in performance over the last few years. As such, when designing a pipelined ADC a clear understanding of the design tradeoffs, and state of the art techniques is required to implement today's high performance low power ADCs...

Loudspeaker Design Cookbook

Ultimate book about loudspeakers, box and crossover design.

Cisco CallManager Fundamentals

Cisco Systems has lately become aggressive in promoting applications of the IP network infrastructure equipment that the company has traditionally sold. Cisco CallManagerthe subject of Cisco CallManager Fundamentalsis essentially an IP-based Public Branch Exchange (PBX) that enables companies to carry their voice and data traffic on a single network infrastructure. This book explains how CallManager (originally developed by Selsius Systems) goes about providing call-control services to IP telephony devices and performing reliably as a corporate telephone switch, and offers insight into how the product may evolve. The volume provides systems architects, engineers, and implementation technicians with the details they need to build strong CallManager systems.

Multimodal Video Characterization and Summarization

This concerns the field of video characterization and summarization. The term characterization refers to methods to analyze video content or some other medium at various levels. We emphasize video content processing, which encompasses methods in image, audio, and language understanding. The term summarization refers to techniques for abstracting video without apparent loss in content.
This book is organized as follows: We first introduce the field of video characterization and its relation to professional production standards and research in video understanding. Second, we describe various techniques for characterizing video content. In particular, we define the video skim as one of the most important video summarization techniques. Finally, we introduce subjective user-studies as an effective means to evaluate video characterization systems.