The demand for high speed Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) has always been on the rise. The availability of silicon germanium (SiGe) heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) devices has opened the door for gigahertz FPGAs. The integration of these high-speed SiGe HBTs and low power CMOS gives a significant speed advantage to SiGe FPGAs. This book concentrates on how to minimize power consumption in SiGe BiCMOS mixed-signal FPGAs, and the combination of ADCs and deserializers together with the FPGA. In this unique resource, Professor Zhou covers the following topics: 1.New low power circuit techniques, novel architectures, and layout skills for high-speed FPGA designs; 2.Applications of SiGe FPGAs from a real-world perspective. IBM...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-0479-0
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Our sun's boundless power can, and should, supply a large portion of our energy needs. Thin film solar cells are flexible and relatively cheap, making it possible for us to cover our infrastructure, vehicles, and military tents with non-polluting, decentralized power generation. Such cells are commerically available and are produced by Powerfilm, Inc. in Iowa in the form of wide, polymer-backed rolls. This is made possible by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition. Still, electrical plasmas, and the equipment required to generate them, are complex. In this work, a simpler method requiring only heat and pressure is investigated. Good quality hydogenated, amorphous silicon was deposited at high rates by the use of disilane instead of...
ISBN: 978-3-6390-6932-7
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A low-probability-of-intercept radar is designed to be difficult to detect by passive radar detection equipment while it is searching for a target or engaged in target tracking. This characteristic is desirable in a radar because it allows finding and tracking an opponent without alerting them to the radar's presence. Ways of reducing the profile of a radar include using wider-frequency bandwidth, frequency hopping, using a frequency-modulated continuous-wave signal, and using only the minimum power required for the task. Using pulse compression also reduces the probability of detection, since the peak transmitted power is lower while the range and resolution is the same. Constructing a radar...
ISBN: 978-6-1327-1072-7
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Low-temperature oxidation (below 1000K) of hydrocarbon fuels is a complex process. It exhibits negative temperature coefficient behavior where overall reactivity decreases with increasing temperature. It is necessary to understand the oxidation mechanism of fuels because of its importance in various applications such as HCCI engines. The conventional oxidation mechanism of alkanes has been greatly affected by the identification of a new concerted elimination pathway that produces alkene and hydroperoxy radical from alkylperoxy. This pathway reduces the chain branching via the conventional route of alkylperoxy isomerization. This leaves us with the quest for the new chain-branching pathways. This study focuses on the ethane oxidation...
ISBN: 978-3-6390-8765-9
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"Millimeter-wave" wireless applications are emerging at frequencies from 24 to 110 GHz. Anticipated uses of this spectrum include data transfer, highway safety, intelligent transport, mobile satellite communications, civilian ultrawideband radar, etc. In contrast to most wireless services offered at lower frequencies, typical millimeter-wave applications need to steer or redirect wireless signals in order to track a mobile target or user. Unfortunately, current techniques for millimeter-wave beam steering are limited mainly to aerospace/defense applications due to the exuberant cost of the advanced integration techniques and sophisticated technologies used in existing design approaches. Responding to a need for lower cost and improved...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-0593-3
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This book focuses on the exploration of various power optimization methods for video processing SoCs. An existing application, a video pixel processor for high-end television sets, is used as a case study. Furthermore, the influence of a recently developed communication infrastructure, Network-on-Chip (NoC), on power dissipation is analyzed. An extensive power analysis is performed on the Network Interface (NI), a key part of the NoC. The results have been applied to the recent design of a NoC-based video pixel processor and an alternative implementation is proposed that promises to reduce the power dissipation by about 50%. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...
ISBN: 978-3-6392-0971-6
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The post-earthquake reconnaissance reports of the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake and the 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake indicated that the low-rise RC buildings were highly prone to earthquake damages. Major problem of the insufficient member strength and the non-ductile detailing members caused the insufficient seismic capacity of buildings. On the contrary, a significant amount of the low-rise RC buildings with sufficient partition walls survived from the Chi-Chi earthquake. With this evidence and the limited knowledge exists on literature, study of the behavior of low-rise RC shear walls is needed. The objective of this study is to develop an analytical model for estimation of load-deflection curves of the low-rise RC shear walls which consists...
ISBN: 978-3-6390-0386-4
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lowry Air Force Base (1938–1994) is a former United States Air Force base located in the cities of Aurora and Denver, Colorado. Its primary mission throughout its existence was Air Force technical training and was heavily involved with the training of United States Army Air Forces bomber crews during World War II. It was also the home of the United States Air Force Academy from 1954 to 1958, until the Academy's permanent site in Colorado Springs was completed. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1317-5670-2
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Loyd Carrier was one of a number of small tracked vehicles used by the British and Commonwealth forces in the Second World War to transport equipment and men about the battlefield. Alongside the Bren, Scout and Machine Gun Carriers, they moved infantry support weapons. The Loyd Carrier was built upon the mechanicals (engine gearbox and transmission) of a 15 cwt 4x2 Fordson truck with lightly-armoured steel bodywork. The engine was at the rear of the Carrier with the radiator behind rather than in front. The transmission then took the drive forward to the axle at the very front where it drove the tracks. Both the front sprockets and idlers at the rear of the tracks were fitted with brakes,...
ISBN: 978-6-1337-7195-6
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Long-playing (LP) record albums are 33? rpm vinyl gramophone records (phonograph records), generally either 10 or 12 inches in diameter. They were first introduced in 1948, and served as a primary release format for recorded music until the compact disc began to significantly displace them by beginning of 1988. As of 2006, a renewed interest in vinyl has occurred and the demand for the medium has been on a steady increase yearly in niche markets. The long-playing record is an analog format. The digital recording of sound was only made practical by the technical advances in microprocessors and computing which occurred in the 1970s and 1980s. Данное издание не является...
ISBN: 978-6-1316-5051-2
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
The LSWR N15 class was a British 2-cylinder 4-6-0 express passenger steam locomotive designed by Robert W. Urie. The class has a complex build history spanning eight years of construction from 1919 to 1926. The first batch of the class was constructed for the London and South Western Railway (LSWR), where they hauled heavy express trains to the south coast ports and further west to Exeter. Following the grouping of railway companies in 1923, the LSWR became part of the Southern Railway (SR) and its publicity department gave the N15 locomotives names associated with Arthurian legend; the class hence becoming known as King Arthurs. The Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the newly-formed company, Richard Maunsell, increased the class...
ISBN: 978-6-1306-0389-2
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! LTE Advanced is a preliminary mobile communication standard, formally submitted as a candidate 4G system to ITU-T in late 2009, and expected to be finalized in 2011. It is standardized by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project as a major enhancement of the 3GPP Long Term Evolution standard. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1341-2514-7
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! C41100 Lubaloy is a wrought copper alloy that is comprised mainly of copper and zinc. Lubaloy possesses many favorable characteristics making it, and other types of brass, a popular choice in manufacturing. It is a source material in many processes including the creation of electrical components and bullet-making. Documented use of brass dates back to early Romans, and is referenced in the King James Bible. There are both positive and negative health effects that are associated with the use of this material. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после...
ISBN: 978-6-1338-1335-9
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! La lubrification ou le graissage est un ensemble de techniques permettant de reduire le frottement, l'usure entre deux pieces en contact et, en mouvement l'une par rapport a l'autre. Elle permet souvent d'evacuer une partie de l'energie thermique engendree par ce frottement, ainsi que d'eviter la corrosion... On parle de lubrification dans le cas ou le lubrifiant (mecanique) est liquide et de graissage dans le cas ou il est compact. • En mecanique, on lubrifie les pieces de metal ou de ceramique avec un corps gras, comme de l'huile ou de la graisse. Les lubrifiants sont des produits liquides, pateux ou solides d'origine minerale (hydrocarbures pour l'essentiel), animale, vegetale ou...
ISBN: 978-6-1341-4473-5
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Ludwig South-North railway, built between 1843 and 1854, was the first railway line to be constructed by Royal Bavarian State Railways. It was named after the king, Ludwig I, whose infrastructure priorities had earlier been focused less on railway development than on his Main-Danube canal project. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1336-1404-8
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Книга о камуфляже и маркировке Люфтваффе, содержащая около 300 фотографий и 16 цветных иллюстраций. Это издание является дополнением к вышедшей в 1973 году книге "Luftwaffe Camouflage markings 1935-45 Vol I" . Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии издания 1981 года (издательство "Kookaburra Technical Publications").
ISBN: 978-5-8850-0890-7
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A luggage carrier, also commonly called a rack is a device attached to a bicycle to which cargo or panniers can be attached. This is popular with utility bicycles and touring bicycles. Bicycle luggage carriers may be mounted on the front or rear of a bicycle. The rear mount is more common. Bicycles may have eyelets, tapped with a standard thread, at the dropouts on the rear chainstays, and on the front fork blades. Mounting a bike rack is possible without these eyelets, but requires additional hardware. A style of rack clamps only to the seatpost, does not require eyelets or additional hardware, but has a...
ISBN: 978-6-1317-1441-2
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
A lugger is a type of small sailing vessel setting lugsails on two or more masts and perhaps lug topsails.The lugsail is an evolved version of the classical square sail. In both rigs, the upper side of the sail is attached to a spar, the yard, which is hoisted up the mast by a rope known as the halyard. The lower side of the sail is held in place by a separate set of ropes, the sheets. The main difference between the lugsail and square is the location of the yard in relation to the mast Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Luigi Gorrini, MOVM, (born 12 July 1917) is a former Italian World War II fighter pilot in the Regia Aeronautica and in the Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana. During the conflict he flew with the Corpo Aereo Italiano (CAI, Italian Air Corps) during the Battle of Britain, fought over Libya and Tunisia, and was involved in the defence of the Italian mainland. Gorrini was credited with 19 (24 according to some sources) enemy planes shot down plus 9 damaged, of several types: Curtiss P-40, Spitfire, P-38 Lightning, P-47 Thunderbolt, B-17 "Flying Fortress" and B-24 Liberator. He claimed his air victories flying the biplane Fiat C.R.42 and monoplanes Macchi C.202 and C.205 Veltro. Gorrini was the...
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Luis W. Alvarez (June 13, 1911, San Francisco, California – September 1, 1988) was an American experimental physicist and inventor, who spent nearly all of his long professional career on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley. The American Journal of Physics commented, "Luis Alvarez (1911–1988) was one of the most brilliant and productive experimental physicists of the twentieth century." He was the author of 168 published papers in scientific journals, mostly in the field of physics, and was elected to the National Academy of Science in 1947 and the National Academy of Engineering in 1969. He was a member of the American Physical Society, a fellow in 1939, and served as...
ISBN: 978-6-1318-3378-6
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A luminaria (rarely vigil fire) is a traditional small bonfire typically used during Las Posadas, a 9-day celebration culminating on Christmas Eve (la Nochebuena). The luminaria is widely used in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Luminaria is a loanword from Spanish that entered English in New Mexico. In New Mexico tradition, the luminaria is constructed of pinon pine branches stacked to form a cube similar in style to a log fence or log cabin. The pinon is used because it is abundant and the resin has a distinct fragrance that is very pleasing. To many people in New Mexico this is the fragrance of Christmas. The branches are laid to form a box so that the fire will cast the most light and heat with the...
ISBN: 978-6-1340-4928-3
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) or lunar rover was a battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon during the last three missions of the American Apollo program (15, 16, and 17) during 1971 and 72. It was popularly known as the moon buggy, a play on the phrase "dune buggy". The LRV could carry one or two astronauts, their equipment, and lunar samples. The concept of a lunar rover predated Apollo, with a 1950s series in Collier's Weekly magazine by Wernher Von Braun and others, "Man Will Conquer Space Soon!", describing a six week stay on the moon, featuring ten-ton tractor trailers for moving supplies. In the February 1964 issue of Popular Science, Von Braun, then director of NASA's...
ISBN: 978-6-1341-8627-8
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