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Over the past several years, embedded systems have emerged as an integral though unseen part of many consumer, industrial, and military devices. The explosive growth of these systems has resulted in embedded computing becoming an increasingly important discipline. The need for designers of high-performance, application-specific computing systems has never been greater, and many universities and colleges in the US and worldwide are now developing advanced courses to help prepare their students for careers in embedded computing.

High-Performance Embedded Computing: Architectures, Applications, and Methodologies is the first book designed to address the needs of advanced students and industry professionals. Focusing on the unique complexities of embedded system design, the book provides a detailed look at advanced topics in the field, including multiprocessors, VLIW and superscalar architectures, and power consumption. Fundamental challenges in embedded computing are described, together with design methodologies and models of computation. HPEC provides an in-depth and advanced treatment of all the components of embedded systems, with discussions of the current developments in the field and numerous examples of real-world applications.

* Covers advanced topics in embedded computing, including multiprocessors, VLIW and superscalar architectures, and power consumption
* Provides in-depth coverage of networks, reconfigurable systems, hardware-software co-design, security, and program analysis
* Includes examples of many real-world embedded computing applications (cell phones, printers, digital video) and architectures (the Freescale Starcore, TI OMAP multiprocessor, the TI C5000 and C6000 series, and others)

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Author(s): Robert H. Morelos-Zaragoza
Publisher: Wiley
Date : 2006
Pages : 278
ISBN : 0470015586

Product Description
Building on the success of the first edition, which offered a practical introductory approach to the techniques of error concealment, this book, now fully revised and updated, provides a comprehensive treatment of the subject and includes a wealth of additional features. The Art of Error Correcting Coding, Second Edition explores intermediate and advanced level concepts as well as those which will appeal to the novice.

All key topics are discussed, including Reed-Solomon codes, Viterbi decoding, soft-output decoding algorithms, MAP, log-MAP and MAX-log-MAP. Reliability-based algorithms GMD and Chase are examined, as are turbo codes, both serially and parallel concatenated, as well as low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes and their iterative decoders.

* Features additional problems at the end of each chapter and an instructor’s solutions manual
* Updated companion website offers new C/C ++programs and MATLAB scripts, to help with the understanding and implementation of basic ECC techniques
* Easy to follow examples illustrate the fundamental concepts of error correcting codes
* Basic analysis tools are provided throughout to help in the assessment of the error performance block and convolutional codes of a particular error correcting coding (ECC) scheme for a selection of the basic channel models

This edition provides an essential resource to engineers, computer scientists and graduate students alike for understanding and applying ECC techniques in the transmission and storage of digital information.

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Building on the success of the first edition, which offered a practical introductory approach to the techniques of error concealment, this book, now fully revised and updated, provides a comprehensive treatment of the subject and includes a wealth of additional features. The Art of Error Correcting Coding, Second Edition explores intermediate and advanced level concepts as well as those which will appeal to the novice.

All key topics are discussed, including Reed-Solomon codes, Viterbi decoding, soft-output decoding algorithms, MAP, log-MAP and MAX-log-MAP. Reliability-based algorithms GMD and Chase are examined, as are turbo codes, both serially and parallel concatenated, as well as low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes and their iterative decoders.

* Features additional problems at the end of each chapter and an instructor’s solutions manual
* Updated companion website offers new C/C ++programs and MATLAB scripts, to help with the understanding and implementation of basic ECC techniques
* Easy to follow examples illustrate the fundamental concepts of error correcting codes
* Basic analysis tools are provided throughout to help in the assessment of the error performance block and convolutional codes of a particular error correcting coding (ECC) scheme for a selection of the basic channel models

This edition provides an essential resource to engineers, computer scientists and graduate students alike for understanding and applying ECC techniques in the transmission and storage of digital information.

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Product Details

* Hardcover: 278 pages
* Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (September 11, 2006)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0470015586
* ISBN-13: 978-0470015582
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Author(s): Carlos A. Smith
Publisher: Wiley
Date : 1997
Pages : 784

Product Description
The book presents all the necessary theory for the successful practice of automatic process control. The significance of the theory is explained at all times. Both introductory and advanced control strategies are presented and applied.

Book Info
The objective of this book is to present the practice of automatic process control along with the fundamental principles of control theory. New edition contains information on Z-transform analysis and discrete controllers. DLC: Chemical process control.
Product Details

* Hardcover: 784 pages
* Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (February 24, 1997)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0471575887
* ISBN-13: 978-0471575887

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Author(s): Nasser Kehtarnavaz
Publisher: Academic
Date : 2008
Pages : 304
Format : PDF
ISBN : 0123744903

Book Description
The ideal book for quickly developing DSP systems by integrating MATLAB or C code into the LabVIEW graphical programming environment.

Product Description
Reflecting LabViews new MathScripting feature, the new edition of this book combines textual and graphical programming to form a hybrid programming approach, enabling a more effective means of building and analyzing DSP systems. The hybrid programming approach allows the use of previously developed textual programming solutions to be integrated into LabVIEWs highly interactive and visual environment, providing an easier and quicker method for building DSP systems.

Features

* The only DSP laboratory book that combines both textual and graphical programming
* 12 lab experiments that incorporate C/MATLAB code blocks into the LabVIEW graphical programming environment via the new MathScripting feature.
* Lab experiments covering basic DSP implementation topics including sampling, digital filtering, fixed-point data representation, frequency domain processing.
* Interesting applications using the hybrid programming approach, such as a keypad phone system, a software-defined radio system, and a cochlear implant simulator system
* A CD-ROM providing all the lab codes

This book is an ideal introduction for engineers and students seeking to develop DSP systems in quick time.

* The only DSP project book that combines textual and graphical programming
* 12 Lab projects that incorporate MATLAB code blocks into the LabVIEW graphical programming environment via the MathScripting feature.
* Interesting applications such as the design of a cochlear implant simulator and a software-defined radio system.
Product Details

* Paperback: 304 pages
* Publisher: Academic Press; 2 edition (April 14, 2008)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0123744903
* ISBN-13: 978-0123744906

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