This text, ESD Basics: From Semiconductor Manufacturing to Product Use was initiated on
the need to produce a text that addresses fundamentals of electrostatic discharge from the
manufacturing environment to today’s products. As the manufacturing world evolves, semi-
conductor networks scale, and s ...
ESD is a crucial factor for integrated circuits and influences their quality and reliability.
Today increasingly sensitive processes with deep sub micron structures are developed. The
integration of more and more functionality on a single chip and saving of chip area is
required. Integrated circuits ...
This book is focused on designing and developing Representational State Transfer (REST)
platforms in Rails. REST is the architectural style of the Web, consisting of a set of
constraints that, applied to components, connectors, and data elements, constitute the
wider distributed hypermedia system th ...
December 2007, San Jose, California: It seems a long time ago.
I walked into a big networking company to head their small
Power over Ethernet (PoE) applications team. Surprisingly,
I hardly knew anything about PoE prior to that day, having been a
switching-power conversion engineer almost all my lif ...
Thepredecessorvolumeofthisbookwaspublishedin1996.Intheyears
since then, some things have changed and some have not.
Two of the things that have not changed are the desire for better
models and faster simulations. I performed the original simulations on
my “hyperfast” 133-MHz computer! At the time, ...
Today, electric power transmission systems should face many demanding chal-
lenges, which include balancing between reliability, economics, environmental,
and other social objectives to optimize the grid assets and satisfy the growing
electrical demand.
Moreover, the operational environment of trans ...
There is an unprecedented enthusiasm for radio frequency
identification (RFID) technologies today. RFID is based on the
exchange of information carried by electromagnetic waves between a
label, or tag, and a reader. This technology is currently in full
economic expansion, which has manifested itself ...
Radio frequency identification (RFID) is gaining in popularity, especially
as we find ourselves in this communications age and headed towards a
ubiquitous computing world. Automatic identification systems become
an important aspect not just in today’s technology but also as part of our
daily life. ...
This book is either ambitious, brave, or reckless approaching
a topic as rapidly evolving as industrial control system (ICS)
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such as Stuxnet to the advanced persistent threats posed by
organized crime and state-sponsored entities, ICS is i ...
Machine learning is a broad and fascinating field. Even
today, machine learning technology runs a substantial part of your
life, often without you knowing it. Any plausible approach to artifi-
cial intelligence must involve learning, at some level, if for no other
reason than it’s hard to call a sy ...
