Books in the Devices, Circuits, and Systems series

This book explores issues in designing high-performance embedded computer systems and networks. The emphasis is on the fundamental concepts and analytical techniques that are applicable to a range of applications, rather than on specific system components, software, or system-level integration. Topics include the co-design of embedded systems, code optimization, power and performance trade-offs, and benchmarks for evaluating embedded systems and their components. Featuring contributions by researchers from around the world, it offers a global view of groundbreaking technologies and applications.

For decades, people have sought to harvest energy from natural sources. Lately, climate change has popularized solar or photovoltaic technology, while piezoelectric technology is being developed to power handheld devices, and thermoelectric technology is being explored to convert wasted engine heat into electricity. Written by experts from academia and industry, Energy Harvesting with Functional Materials and Microsystems presents current research and explains the field from a materials and device perspective, with resulting technologies capable of enabling low-power implantable sensors or large-scale electrical grids.

Although there have been extensive developments in computing and communications needs of integrated microsystems, the sensors required to conduct advanced and integrated tasks are only now seeing transformational change. With their huge potential interfacing applications for biological and medical fields, sensors will soon become ubiquitous. Focusing heavily on practical applications but remaining light on physics and math, this book addresses the developments necessary to make truly integrated sensors a reality in physical, biological, optical, and chemical sensing, as well as future micro- and nanotechnologies.

This book is a collection of chapters containing carefully selected topics on the most recent advancements in semiconductor radiation detector technologies. Relatively new detector materials, such as CdZTe and Cr compensated GaAs, are introduced, along with emerging applications of radiation detectors.

The book is divided into three sections: devices and technology for magnetic sensing, industrial applications (automotive/navigation), and emerging applications. It covers transmission speed sensor ICs, dynamic differential Hall ICs, chopped Hall switches, programmable linear output Hall sensors, low power Hall ICs, and electromagnetic levitation.

The book presents information written by international experts in the field of Systems on Chip (SoC) Coupling, including substrate and interconnect magnetic crosstalk, 2D and 3D circuits noise coupling, and TSV and simulation. It enables the reader to analyze crosstalk noise propagating through the parasitics interconnect and package and the PCB.

Sensor technologies and applications are evolving rapidly driven by the demand for new sensors for monitoring and diagnostic purposes to improve human health and safety. The book reviews the latest developments in sensor technology and gives the reader an overview of the state-of-the-art in key areas, such as sensors for diagnostics and monitoring.

This book explores up-to-date research trends and achievements on low-power and high-speed technologies in both electronics and optics. It offers unique insight into low-power and high-speed approaches ranging from devices, ICs, sub-systems and networks that can be exploited for future mobile devices, 5G networks, and Internet of Things (IoT).

The first portion of the book is on the algorithms. The second portion of the book is about applications, covering some of the major areas like computational imaging, medical imaging, biomedical signal processing and machine learning. The concentration of this book is on algorithms and applications.

The book puts emphasis on sensor materials, detector structures, front electronics technology and their designs as well as system optimization for different applications. Also, it includes characterization measurements of the developed detection systems.

This volume presents specific applications of the detection systems in medical imaging, industrial testing and security applications. These newely developed technologies start to play a vital role in the detection, diagnosis and tratment of major human diseases.

This book provides a single source for state-of-the-art information on analog electronics for the readout of radiation detectors. Featuring chapters written by international experts in their respective fields, the text defines the main design parameters of front-end circuitry developed in microelectronics technologies, explains the basis for the use of CMOS image sensors for the detection of charged particles, and describes digital pulse-processing techniques complementary to analog processing. The chapters address a variety of technologies, from analog-to-digital converters, time-to-digital converters, and silicon photomultipliers to 3D interconnects.

Circuits and Systems for Security and Privacy begins by introducing the basic theoretical concepts and arithmetic used in algorithms for security and cryptography, and by reviewing the fundamental building blocks of cryptographic systems. It then analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of real-world implementations that not only optimize power, area, and throughput but also resist side-channel attacks. Merging the perspectives of experts from industry and academia, the book provides valuable insight and necessary background for the design of security-aware circuits and systems as well as efficient accelerators used in security applications.

This modern book discusses integrated circuit design in the context of mixed-signal applications. Featuring chapters authored by leading experts from industry and academia, the text demonstrates advanced design techniques that enable digital circuits and sensitive analog circuits to coexist without any compromise. It covers signal integrity and

Making processing information more energy-efficient saves money, reduces energy use, and permits batteries that provide power in mobile devices to run longer or be smaller. The book addresses the need to investigate new approaches to lower energy requirement in multiple application areas and serves as a guide into emerging circuit technologies

This highly comprehensive, introductory book explains the basics of structural health monitoring aspects of composite structures. This book serve as an all-in-one reference book in which the reader can receive a basic understanding of composite materials, manufacturing methods, the latest types of optical fiber sensors used for structural health

This book discusses the scale of nanomaterials and nanomachines, focusing on integrated circuits and microelectromechanical systems. It considers different nanomaterials' interactions with chemical reactions, biological processes, and the environment. It examines the mechanical properties of nanomaterials and potential performance-enhancing trea

This book delivers a comprehensive treatment of complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) time-mode circuits and systems. Featuring contributions from leading experts, the text begins by presenting a critical comparison of voltage-mode, current-mode, and time-mode signaling for mixed-mode signal processing. It then covers the fundamentals o