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Introduces professional engineers and students alike to system development using Platform FPGAs. This title focuses on embedded systems. It describes the fundamental technology in terms of hardware, software, and a set of principles to guide the development of Platform FPGA systems.

Outlines the history of libraries - traditional and digital. This title offers the knowledge and tools needed to construct and maintain a digital library, regardless of the size or purpose. Suitable for technical and non-technical audiences, it covers the entire spectrum of media, including text, images, audio, video, and related XML standards.

Helps hardware engineers and firmware engineers work together to mitigate or eliminate problems that occur when hardware and firmware are not optimally compatible. This work covers topics including register layout, interrupts, timing and performance, aborts and errors. It features concepts that apply to ASICs, ASSPs, SoCs, and FPGAs.

What does it mean to be committed to usability? Answering this question, this work presents the techniques of Usability Engineering as a series of product lifecycle tasks that result directly in easier-to-use software. It also shows how to perform a complete requirements analysis and then incorporate the resulting goals and constraints.

Historically, there has been little real communication between practitioners in the two fields of 'ultrasound' and 'colloids'. This book covers this multidisciplinary field combining acoustics, electroacoustics, colloid science, analytical chemistry and rheology. It provides a bibliography with more than 1,000 references.

This updated edition describes preventive and predictive maintenance for major process units, such as vertical, horizontal, reciprocating and liquid-ring vacuum pumps, fans and blowers, compressors, turboexpanders and turbines.

Part of the "Capturing Intelligence" series, this book focuses on the growing connections between Fuzzy Logic and the Semantic Web. It covers concepts, tools, techniques and applications exhibiting the usefulness, and the necessity, for using Fuzzy Logic in the Semantic Web.

Describes economists' efforts to quantify the social decisions people necessarily make and the philosophies that those choices define. This book is suitable for those who seek introductions to writings on human well-being and collective decision-making.

The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain Project (AHOB) aims to investigate the record of human presence in Britain from the earliest occupation until the end of the last Ice Age. This book presents the results of fieldwork and research on old sites from museum collections using an array of analytical techniques.

The Standard Model of elementary particles and interactions is one of the tested theories in physics. This book presents a collection of lectures given in August 2005 at the Les Houches Summer School on Particle Physics beyond the Standard Model. It provides a pedagogical introduction to the aspects of particle physics beyond the Standard Model.

Shows how to make the rich information content of bi-temporal data available to business users, while simplifying the design, maintenance and retrieval of that data. This book integrates an enterprise-wide viewpoint with a strong conceptual model of temporal data management allowing for realistic implementation of database application development.

By collecting and detailing the diverse standards of myriad industries, and giving a declaration for the units that can be used in an SQL schema, this book enables readers to write and implement portable data that can interface to many external application systems, allowing readers to cross business boundaries and move up the career ladder.

Offers proven and effective search techniques for finding anybody, anywhere. This book discusses the core strategies for conducting adoption, genealogical, and other missing persons investigations in understandable terms. It contains numerous sample search reports, which can be used in conjunction with the author's web site.

Contains a collection of Stan Shiels articles for "World Pumps". This book covers topics such as specification, operational issues, troubleshooting and the "PumpAcademy" articles related to centrifugal pumps.

From the voice on the phone, to the voice on the computer, to the voice from the toaster, speech user interfaces are here to stay forever. This book outlines the principles of how people use language interactively, and illustrates various aspects of design work.

Intended for both novice and experienced SQL users, this work focuses on the language's capabilities, from the basic to the advanced, and the ways that real applications take advantage of them. It illustrates features and techniques with references to their own custom database, which can be downloaded from the companion Web site.

Meets the needs of those LINUX users who wish to set up a desktop LINUX workstations, and integrate them into their corporate environment. This book covers whether or not a complete LINUX solution is available, or if some hybrid desktop will be needed to interact smoothly in the modern corporate computing environment.

Developers and DBAs use Oracle SQL coding on a daily basis, whether for application development, finding problems, fine-tuning solutions to those problems, or other critical DBA tasks. This work aims to help you get started and to quickly locate answers to common (and uncommon) questions.

Contains information you need to make your application program support IPv6. This book describes the IPv6 socket APIs (RFC2553) with real-world examples. It deals with security concerns, including spam and email, by presenting the best programming standards.

Contains comprehensive coverage of network design, performance, and availability. This title provides the tools to solve medium- to large-scale data network design problems from the ground up. It gives readers the guidance they need to plan, implement, and optimize their enterprise infrastructure. It offers real insight into the design process.

With chapters on Verifying Code, Predicting Errors, and Preventing Errors, this title explains tools such as FindBUGS and AGITAR, highlights techniques from integrated environments like Jazz.net, and includes demos with ESC/Java and Spec#, Eclipse and Mozilla. It is a complete and pragmatic overview of debugging.

Serves as a guide to creating a proactive, effective prevention process. This book presents a model showing you how to systematically identify and execute the steps needed to make your operations incident-free. It includes cases of real-life examples and safety performance scorecards.

Rosetta permits designers to specify requirements and constraints independent of their low level implementation and to integrate the designs of domains as distinct as digital and analog electronics, and the mechanical, optical, fluidic and thermal subsystems with which they interact. This book provides an introduction to the language.

Exchange Server is necessary to support Outlook and SharePoint in the enterprise messaging at virtually all Fortune 1000 firms. This book provides knowledge about designing, planning, and implementing an Exchange 2003 environment. It also covers the tools and techniques that messaging system planners and administrators require.

Discusses the general topics in human learning and cognition research, including inhibition, short term and long term memory, verbal memory, memory disruption, and scheduling and learning. This work also discusses cognitive neuroscience aspects of human learning. It focuses on human motor learning.

Helps readers to gain a perspective into a number of different approaches to adaptive control. This book provides an overview of a particular product, how it works, and reasons why a user would want it as well as an in depth explanation of their particular method. It outlines the practical applications of adaptive control technology.

Focuses on TPM for embedded designers. This title provides a foundation on the TPM, helping designers take advantage of hardware security based on sound TCG standards. It covers the TPM basics, discussing in detail the TPM Key Hierarchy and the Trusted Platform Module specification. It also includes an accompanying CD-ROM with full source code.

A practical guide that provides instructions on how to achieve successful designs using a broad spectrum of different microcontrollers and scripting languages. It offers an introduction to working in the world of embedded design. It answers questions on which are the best products to learn, trainings to get, and kinds of companies to work for.

A comprehensive engineering guide to digital consumer electronics. It provides details on key enabling technologies, standards, delivery and reception systems, products, appliances and networking systems. It covers the various key digital consumer product categories: digital TV, digital audio, gaming consoles, DVD players and PCs and peripherals.