CRC Handbook of Laser Science and Technology Supplement

CRC Press | ISBN-10: 0849335078 | 848 pages | 8.5MB | PDF

Book Description
In the CRC Handbook of Laser Science and Technology: Supplement 2, experts summarize the discovery and properties of new optical materials that have appeared since the publication of Volumes III-V. Included are the latest advances in optical crystals, glasses and plastics, laser host materials, phase conjugation materials, linear electrooptic materials, nonlinear optical materials, magnetooptic materials, elastooptic materials, photorefractive materials, liquid crystals, and thin film coatings. The book also includes expanded coverage of optical waveguide materials and new sections on optical liquids, glass fiber lasers, diamond optics, and gradient index materials. Appendices include Designation of Russian Optical Glasses; Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Mineralogical or Common Names for Optical Materials; and Abbreviations for Methods of Preparing Optical Materials. Extensive tabulations of materials properties with references to the primary literature are provided throughout the supplement. The CRC Handbook of Laser Science and Technology: Supplement 2 represents the latest volume in the most comprehensive, up-to-date listing of the properties of optical materials for lasers and laser systems, making it an essential reference work for all scientists and engineers working in laser research and development.

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A Baker's Real Analog Solutions for Digital Designers

Publisher: Newnes | May 2005 | ISBN: 0750678194 | Pages: 368 | PDF | 9.3 MB

This book has been written to help digital engineers who need a few basic analog tools in their toolbox. For practicing digital engineers, students, educators and hands-on managers who are looking for the analog foundation they need to handle their daily engineering problems, this will serve as a valuable reference to the nuts-and-bolts of system analog design in a digital world.

This book is a hands-on designer's guide to the most important topics in analog electronicssuch as Analog-to-Digital and Digital-to-Analog conversion, operational amplifiers, filters, and integrating analog and digital systems. The presentation is tailored for engineers who are primarily experienced and/or educated in digital circuit design. This book will teach such readers how to "think analog" when it is the best solution to their problem. Special attention is also given to fundamental topics, such as noise and how to use analog test and measurement equipment, that are often ignored in other analog titles aimed at professional engineers.

* Extensive use of case-histories and real design examples.

* Offers digital designers the right analog "tool" for the job at hand.

* Conversational, annecdotal "tone" is very easily accessible by students and practitioners alike.

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Embedded System Design

Publisher: Springer | Number Of Pages: 241 | ISBN / ASIN: 0387292373 | 3MB

Embedded systems can be defined as information processing systems embedded into enclosing products such as cars, telecommunication or fabrication equipment. Such systems come with a large number of common characteristics, including real-time constraints, and dependability as well as efficiency requirements. Following the success of information technology (IT) for office and workflow applications, embedded systems are considered to be the most important application area of IT during the coming years. This importance of embedded systems is so far not well reflected in many of the current curricula.Embedded System Design is intended as an aid for changing this situation. It provides the material for a first course on embedded systems, but can also be used by PhD students and professors. A key goal of this book is to provide an overview of embedded system design and to relate the most important topics in embedded system design to each other. It should help to motivate students as well as professors to put more emphasis on education in embedded systems. In order to facilitate teaching from this book, slides, exercises and other related material can be downloaded via the author's web page.

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Electronics Projects For Dummies

Wiley Publishing, Inc. | 2006 | ISBN: 9780470009680 | English | 443 pages | PDF | 13.3 MB

These projects are fun to build and fun to use. Make lights dance to music, play with radio remote control, or build your own metal detector. Who says the Science Fair has to end? If you love building gadgets, this book belongs on your radar. Here are complete directions for building ten cool creations that involve light, sound, or vibrations -- a weird microphone, remote control gizmos, talking toys, and more, with full parts and tools lists, safety guidelines, and wiring schematics.

Check out ten cool electronics projects, including
* Chapter 8 -- Surfing the Radio Waves (how to make your own radio)
* Chapter 9 -- Scary Pumpkins (crazy Halloween decorations that have sound, light, and movement)
* Chapter 12 -- Hitting Paydirt with an Electronic Metal Detector (a project that can pay for itself)

Discover how to
* Handle electronic components safely
* Read a circuit diagram
* Troubleshoot circuits with a multimeter
* Build light-activated gadgets
* Set up a motion detector
* Transform electromagnetic waves into sound

Companion Web site
* Go to www.dummies.com/ go/electronicsprojectsfd
* Explore new projects with other electronics hobbyists
* Find additional information and project opportunities

From the Back Cover
These projects are fun to build and fun to use

Make lights dance to music, play with radio remote control, or build your own metal detector

Who says the Science Fair has to end? If you love building gadgets, this book belongs on your radar. Here are complete directions for building ten cool creations that involve light, sound, or vibrations — a weird microphone, remote control gizmos, talking toys, and more, with full parts and tools lists, safety guidelines, and wiring schematics.

Check out ten cool electronics projects, including

* Chapter 8 — Surfing the Radio Waves (how to make your own radio)
* Chapter 9 — Scary Pumpkins (crazy Halloween decorations that have sound, light, and movement)
* Chapter 12 — Hitting Paydirt with an Electronic Metal Detector (a project that can pay for itself)

Discover how to

* Handle electronic components safely
* Read a circuit diagram
* Troubleshoot circuits with a multimeter
* Build light-activated gadgets
* Set up a motion detector
* Transform electromagnetic waves into sound

Companion Web site

* Go to www.dummies.com/ go/electronicsprojectsfd
* Explore new projects with other electronics hobbyists
* Find additional information and project opportunities

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Telecommunications and Data Communications Handbook

Wiley-Interscience | ISBN: 0470041412 | September 21, 2007 | 791 pages | PDF | 17.4MB

A practical, accessible survey of telecommunications and data communications services and technologies

Finally, there is a commonsense guide to telecommunications and data communications that non-engineers can understand. Popular author Ray Horak provides comprehensive, up-to-date information in plain English, instead of confusing technotalk. Recent developments covered include:

- 802.16 and WiMAX
- Passive Optical Network (PON)
- 802.11g/n
- Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO)
- Broadband over Power Line (BPL)
- Instant Messaging
- ZigBee

In addition, Telecommunications and Data Communications Handbook expands on topics of increasing interest, including:
- Fiber Optics
- Storage Area Networks (SANs)
- Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
- CATV Networks
- Wireless, including Bluetooth
- Cellular, including 2.5G and 3G, photos, video, and ring tones and ring-back tones
- Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), including IP PBX and IP Centrex
- Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) vs. H.323

Complete with a discussion of the current regulatory and business environments, including divestiture and revestiture as well as mergers and acquisitions, this is the ideal reference for non-engineering professionals in the end-user, carrier, content or service provider, manufacturing, regulatory, or financial communities.

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Robot Builder's Bonanza, Third Edition (Robot Builder's Bonanza)

McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics | Pages: 733 | ISBN / ASIN:0071468935 | 9MB

Book Description:
Everybody's favorite amateur robotics book is bolder and better than ever -- and now features the field's "grand master" Myke Predko as the new author! Author duo McComb and Predko bring their expertise to this fully-illustrated robotics "bible" to enhance the already incomparable content on how to build -- and have a universe of fun -- with robots. Projects vary in complexity so everyone from novices to advanced hobbyists will find something of interest.
NEW TO THIS EDITION:

* 30 completely new projects
* All projects have been revamped to be more customizable
* More visual -- illustrations of the final product are right at the beginning of the chapter

Everything you need to build from plans provided or create your own designs:
* Robot Basics * Construction Techniques * Computer and Electronic Control * Power, Motors, and Locomotion * Practical Robotics Projects * Sensors and Navigation * Robot Programming * Tips, Tricks, and Tidbits

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Voice over 802.11

PDF | Publisher: Artech House Publishers (March 2004) | ISBN-10: 1580536778 | 280 pages

Book Description
Wi-Fi can further enhance your organization’s productivity and savings by increasing portability and eliminating charges for PBX maintenance and for wire-line and cellular phone service. However, concerns about the QoS of Wi-Fi and VoIP prevent many organizations from realizing the full savings and productivity improvements that Wi-Fi can deliver. This guide to deploying Wi-Fi telephony helps you overcome these concerns by showing in detail how to engineer each component of Wi-Fi for reliable, high- quality voice transmission. This informative reference reveals how Voice over Wi-Fi is a scalable, secure networking solution that supports today’s demanding application needs. The book explains the ins and outs of the 802.11 standard, Softswitch architecture and applications, and related transport network technology so you can deploy full-featured Wi-Fi that has optimum range and signaling. You also learn the economics of 802.11 and Softswitch so you can measure the cost savings and return on investment of deploying Wi-Fi.

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Build Your Own Laser, Phaser, Ion Ray Gun and Other Working Space Age Projects

McGraw-Hill | ISBN 0830606041 | 1st ed. edition (November 1, 1983) | PDF | 77.7 Mb | 390 pages

Book Description:

This book teaches practical, hands-on experience with some exciting science projects that you aren't likely to
encounter elsewhere. The ultrasonic listener extends the sense of hearing to the realm of sounds above 20kHz.

The low-power one-transistor fm radio transmitter is a useful tool to have in your bag of tricks; it can be built on an hour's notice, and for under $1.

It is an educational and worthwhile book.

That's the good news.

Now for a word of caution:

What I'm suggesting here is that you approach the projects in this great book with wisdom and an ability to think vigorously and persistently.

On one hand, If you mangage to complete and operate all this book's projects, including adjustment of the high-voltage supply of the cutting CO2 laser, and still have not qualified for a postumous Darwin Award, then you have demonstrated you are either a bizzarrely lucky fool or a master technician who has the iron will to stay alive by sticking to impeccable safety procedures.

And before you make your own homemade EMP generator, consider that, at the time Mr. Ianinni wrote this wonderous book, the electronic landscape was much less involved, without the so many co$tly thing$ like cell phone$ and PDA$ in it. The radius of de$truction could lead irate villagers (now reduced to a technological level of torches and pitchforks) directly to your laboratory.

At least one of the devices i.e taser, have gotten negative legislative attention since the book was first published.

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Newnes - Design Recipes for FPGAs

Newnes | 352 pages | 2007-06-18 | ISBN: 0750668458 | 3.36 MB | PDF

This book provides a rich toolbox of design techniques and templates to solve practical, every-day problems using FPGAs. Using a modular structure, the book gives easy-to-find design techniques and templates at all levels, together with functional code, which engineers can easily match and apply to their application.

The easy-to-find structure begins with a design application to demonstrate the key building blocks of FPGA design and how to connect them, enabling the experienced FPGA designer to quickly select the right design for their application, while providing the less experienced a road map to solving their specific design problem.

Written in an informal and easy-to-grasp style, this invaluable resource goes beyond the principles of FPGA s and hardware description languages to actually demonstrate how specific designs can be synthesized, simulated and downloaded onto an FPGA. In addition, the book provides advanced techniques to create real world designs that fit the device required and which are fast and reliable to implement. An accompanying CDROM contains code, test benches and simulation command files for ModelSim.

This book will be an indispensable, well-thumbed resource for FPGA designers of all levels of experience.

* A rich toolbox of practical FGPA design techniques at an engineer's finger tips
* Easy-to-find structure that allows the engineer to quickly locate the information to solve their FGPA design problem, and obtain the level of detail and understanding needed
* Includes a CDROM containing code, test benches and simulation files for ModelSim

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Advanced FPGA Design: Architecture, Implementation, and Optimization

ISBN:0470054379 | English | 336 pages | Wiley-IEEE Press | June 29, 2007 | 5.4 MB | PDF

About The Book :
This book provides the advanced issues of FPGA design as the underlying theme of the work. In practice, an engineer typically needs to be mentored for several years before these principles are appropriately utilized. The topics that will be discussed in this book are essential to designing FPGA's beyond moderate complexity. The goal of the book is to present practical design techniques that are otherwise only available through mentorship and real-world experience.

From the Back Cover
A practical FPGA reference that's like an on-call mentor for engineers and computer scientists
Addressing advanced issues of FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) design and implementation, Advanced FPGA Design: Architecture, Implementation, and Optimization accelerates the learning process for engineers and computer scientists. With an emphasis on real-world design and a logical, practical approach, it walks readers through specific challenges and significantly reduces the learning curve. Designed to enhance and supplement hands-on experience, this real-world reference includes:

Waveform diagrams and circuit diagrams illustrating each topic
Examples that illustrate typical problems in Verilog
Case studies that demonstrate real-world applications
Chapter-end summaries that reiterate key points

Ideal for engineers and computer scientists who want to take their FPGA skills to the next level and for use as a hands-on reference, this is also an excellent textbook for senior or graduate-level students in electrical engineering or computer science.

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