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Adaptive cooling of integrated circuits using digital microfluidics.

For students and researchers, this book covers alternative cooling architectures based on a new digital microfludic platform which uses electrowetting and allows for discrete droplets of liquid to be independently moved along a substrate. This technology has been modified to be used as a reconfigurable, adaptive cooling platform. Coverage is of thermal management of integrated circuits, cooling devices for integrated circuits, adaptive hot-spot cooling principles and design, technology development, thermal effects of digital microfluidic devices, flow-through-based adaptive cooling, and programmable thermal switch-based adaptive cooling. Only a basic knowledge of fluid dynamics and a general knowledge of integrated circuit and microprocessor design is needed. Chakrabarty is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University. Philip Y. Paik is a microfluidics design engineer, and Vamsee K. Pamula is affiliated with a company that uses the digital microfluidic platform to develop products in diagnostics and other applications. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

CMOS RFIC design principles. (CD-ROM included)

In this book/CD-ROM package, Caverly (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Villanova University) offers a practical reference on designing elemental and advanced CMOS RF integrated circuits. The first portion of the book is a review of RF system fundamentals. The second portion covers elemental CMOS RF circuits such as low-noise amplifiers, gain amplifiers, mixers, and oscillators, with ideal circuit topologies discussed first and then merged with nonideal CMOS circuit elements. The third portion of the book looks at more advanced CMOS RF integrated circuits such as voltage-controlled oscillators, phase lock loops, and power amplifier architectures. The CD-ROM contains demonstration versions of CAD tools, CAD layouts, and measured RF data on select RFICs. The book addresses the needs of RF, wireless, and microwave circuit designers, both professionals and students. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Electrical engineering; a pocket reference.

Comprehensive enough to be a desk reference but still fairly compact, considering the scope of the subject matter, this professional and student guide provides the basics of electrical engineering and also covers telecommunications, computer engineering and a range of other engineering disciplines. This is fully loaded with appendices that contain useful data on standards, electrical and physical data on materials and even a list of common acronyms. Rather than relying extensively on cross-references that cause more pawing than reading, the authors have organized materials in the same sequence in which students learn them and supplement text extensively with illustrations and tables. They also supply useful equations, graphics and illustrations and supply a very comprehensive index. The result should be seen on many engineers' desks, well-thumbed. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

GNSS markets and applications.

For some four decades, California-based marketer and consultant Jacobson has been involved with global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), of which the best known is the global positioning system (GPS). Here he explores the business aspects of the systems. He reviews the history and current status of the technology and government policies regarding it, then looks at air and space, maritime, land, mapping and surveying, geodesy and timing, and military applications. He also surveys the companies currently doing business in the industry. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Matching pursuit and unification in EEG analysis.

This comprehensive account of the theoretical and mathematical basis of adaptive time-frequency electroencephalogram (EEG) signal analysis includes extensive material on how the corresponding algorithms can be applied to everyday practice. Durka (biomedical physics, Warsaw U.) uses explicit parameters of EEG transients and selective estimates of energy in his applications to such research and clinical areas as sleep, pharmaco-EEG and epilepsy research. He covers signals, analysis, the spectrum, time v. frequency, choosing the representation, adaptive approximations and basic practical issues along with analysis of seizures, event-related desynchronization and synchronization and spatial localization of cerebral sources, then describes equations and technical details such as adaptive approximation and matching pursuit, statistic significance of changes in the time-frequency plane and details and tricks of implementation. The result is useful for practitioners as well as students. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Pressure-driven microfluids.

Tesar (thermomechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) gives students and professionals an understanding of the behavior of fluids in microchannels. He describes the use for such devices (such as no moving parts) and concepts (such as flow characterization parameters) before he jumps into the basics of driving fluid by pressure and simple components and devices using such liquids. He covers valves and sophisticated devices, conversion devices, and applications such as filling a vessel or keeping a constant liquid level, setting up sensors for intelligent cars or replacing the combustion engine entirely, conduction biological tests or creating guard flows, developing artificial noses and tongues, handling food and waste, interfacing with the nervous system and a wide range of medical and anti-terrorism applications ranging from health monitoring to fluidic decontamination. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Radiowave propagation and antennas for personal communications, 3d ed. (CD-ROM included)

In this updated text, Siwiak (radio telecommunications, Florida Atlantic U.) and Bahreini (electrical engineering, George Washington U., Washington D.C.) introduce radio engineering students and practitioners to antennas and electromagnetics problems related to the telecommunications industry. With an emphasis on three distinct problems — fixed-site antennas, radiowave propagation, and small antennas proximate to the body — 12 chapters cover topics including: historical perspectives, radio communication channel, radio frequency spectrum, receiver sensitivity and transmitted fields, loops and patch antennas, and simulated human body devices, among others. Updates include coverage of wireless local-area networks, personal-area networks and Multiple Input Multiple Output techniques. FORTRAN codes are included in the appendices. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

RF and microwave coupled-line circuits, 2d ed.

This text aims to be a comprehensive treatment of the theory and application of coupled structures in microwave transmission lines. For this new edition, the authors (of REMEC Defense and Space, MA/COM, and Natel Engineering Co. — all in the US — and the UK's Heriot-Watt U.) have left the opening chapters on microwave network theory, characteristics of planar transmission lines, analysis of uniformly coupled lines, broadband forward-wave directional couplers, parallel- coupled TEM directional couplers, and nonuniform broadband TEM directional couplers largely untouched, save for some additions and changes made to accommodate the multiplayer design of coupled lines. More major changes have been made to the applications section of the text, with the chapter on filters now including discussion of the design of bandstop filters using coupled lines and software packages used for filter designs and entirely new chapters on coupled line filters with specialized characteristics and filters using advanced materials and technologies. The final two chapters, on the design of common microwave components requiring coupled line technology and baluns (electronic devices that convert between balanced and unbalanced electrical signals), have also been updated as appropriate. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)