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  • Computational Intelligence in Mechatronics

    Solving Real-World Problems in Electronic Systems Design
    • 1st Edition
    • Mohamed Arezki Mellal
    • English
    Computational Intelligence in Mechatronics: Solving Real-World Problems in Electronic Systems Design provides a comprehensive exploration of the diverse applications of computational intelligence in the realm of applied electronics. By compiling cutting-edge research and practical case studies, the book bridges the gap between theory and practice, offering insights into how CI techniques can be effectively utilized to solve real-world problems in electronic systems design, analysis, and optimization. Through a combination of theoretical foundations, algorithmic implementations, and practical examples, readers will gain a deeper understanding of the potential benefits and limitations of CI in various applications within the field of applied electronics.From optimizing circuit designs to enhancing signal processing algorithms, CI has demonstrated its efficacy in addressing challenges across diverse domains such as telecommunications, consumer electronics, renewable energy systems, and medical devices. As the demand for intelligent electronic systems continues to grow, understanding and harnessing the potential of computational intelligence becomes imperative for researchers, engineers, and practitioners in the field of applied electronics.

  • Embedded Systems Architecture

    A Comprehensive Guide for Engineers and Programmers
    • 3rd Edition
    • Tammy Noergaard
    • English
    Embedded Systems Architecture: A Comprehensive Guide for Engineers and Programmers, Third Edition is a practical and technical guide for understanding the components that make up an embedded system’s architecture. This book is perfect for those starting out as technical professionals such as engineers, programmers, and designers of embedded systems but is also great for students of computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering. Users will find a much-needed ‘big picture’ for recently graduated engineers grappling with understanding the design of real-world systems. In addition, the book provides professionals with a systems-level picture of the key elements that can go into embedded design.

  • Confidential Computing

    Principles and Technology
    • 1st Edition
    • Jiewen Yao
    • English
    At present, major companies are launching their own confidential computing solutions, which pose significant challenges to users. This book summarizes the common designs of various mainstream TEE hardware, and explains their commonalities to help understand the working principles of TEE hardware, facilitating users to define TEE usage scenarios through abstract commonalities.Confid... Computing: Principles and Technology comprehensively introduces the design principles and usage methods of TEE in terms of security models, lifecycle, attestation models, attack methods, and mitigation strategies, helping readers understand the security attributes and implementation points of confidential computing. At the same time, this book takes the TEE provided by the mainstream X86, ARM, and RISC-V architectures in the industry as examples to analyze the specific implementation methods and similarities and differences of hardware TEE, helping users deeply understand the advantages and disadvantages of different implementations, and hoping to provide some inspiration for future TEE software and hardware designers.

  • Advances in Fog Computing and the Internet of Things for Smart Healthcare

    • 1st Edition
    • Joseph Bamidele Awotunde + 3 more
    • English
    Advances in Fog Computing and the Internet of Things for Smart Healthcare delves into the transformative impact of fog computing and IoT on modern healthcare systems. This comprehensive guide educates researchers and graduate students on the fundamental concepts of these technologies, illustrating their practical applications in healthcare. Real-world use cases showcase the technologies' ability to enhance patient monitoring and personalized medicine. The book also addresses significant challenges such as privacy, security, data management, and regulatory compliance, providing strategies for overcoming them.Alongside its companion book, Fundamentals of Fog Computing and the Internet of Things for Smart Healthcare, this volume empowers various industries to leverage IoT technologies while optimizing performance and system efficiency. It highlights the crucial role of fog computing in processing data closer to the source, ensuring faster and more efficient data processing and contributing to the creation of effective IoT ecosystems. This synergy between fog computing and IoT facilitates smarter applications and services, advancing the landscape of healthcare with more efficient, personalized, and accessible services.

  • Fundamentals of Fog Computing and the Internet of Things for Smart Healthcare

    • 1st Edition
    • Joseph Bamidele Awotunde + 3 more
    • English
    Fundamentals of Fog Computing and the Internet of Things for Smart Healthcare explores the intersection of two transformative technologies, fog computing and the IoT, shedding light on how they are revolutionizing healthcare. The book serves as an essential guide for researchers and graduate students, explaining the underlying concepts, operational benefits, and potential challenges of these technologies. By delving into how fog computing enhances real-time data processing, the book's authors provide invaluable insights into the practical applications of these advancements in the healthcare industry.Additionall... together with its companion book, Advances in Fog computing and the Internet of Things for Smart Healthcare, the series provides a comprehensive understanding of how these technologies are enabling more efficient, personalized, and accessible healthcare services. By facilitating smart applications and services across various industries, fog computing optimizes performance, latency, privacy, and overall system efficiency, ultimately contributing to the development of more effective and responsive IoT ecosystems.

  • Energy-Efficient Devices and Circuits for Neuromorphic Computing

    • 1st Edition
    • Farooq Ahmad Khanday
    • English
    Energy-Efficient Devices and Circuits for Neuromorphic Computing is an important contribution to this field, covering topics from neuron dynamics to energy-efficient CMOS devices and circuits. The book delves into theoretical analysis of learning processes in spiking neural networks, two-terminal neuromorphic devices, material-engineered neuromorphic devices, and novel biomimetic Si devices. It offers insights into the latest developments in non-volatile memory crossbar arrays and emerging post-CMOS devices. Overall, it provides a comprehensive overview of energy-efficient neuromorphic computing architecture. This book is an essential resource for researchers, engineers, and students working in neuromorphic computing and energy-efficient electronics.

  • Computer Architecture

    A Quantitative Approach
    • 7th Edition
    • John L. Hennessy + 2 more
    • English
    Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, has been considered essential reading by instructors, students and practitioners of computer design for nearly 30 years. The seventh edition of this classic textbook from John Hennessy and David Patterson, winners of the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award recognizing contributions of lasting and major technical importance to the computing field, along with new author Christos Kozyrakis, is fully revised with the latest developments in processor and system architecture.True to its original mission of demystifying computer architecture, this edition continues the longstanding tradition of focusing on areas where the most exciting computing innovation is happening, while always keeping an emphasis on good engineering design.

  • RISC-V System-on-Chip Design

    • 1st Edition
    • David Harris + 3 more
    • English
    RISC-V Microprocessor System-On-Chip Design is written to be accessible to an advanced undergraduate audience with limited background. It explains concepts from operating systems, VLSI, and memory systems as necessary, and High school mathematics is sufficient preparation for most of the book, although the floating point and division chapters will be primarily of interest to those with a curiosity about computer arithmetic. Like Harris and Harris’s Digital Design and Computer Architecture textbooks, this book will appeal to students with easy-to-read and complete explanations, sidebars, and occasional humor and cartoons.It comes with an open-source implementation and will include end-of-chapter problems to extend the RISC-V processor in various ways. Ancillary materials include a GitHub repository with complete open-source SystemVerilog code, validation code in C and assembly language, and code for benchmarking and booting Linux.

  • Iris and Periocular Recognition using Deep Learning

    • 1st Edition
    • Ajay Kumar
    • English
    Iris and Periocular Recognition using Deep Learning systematically explains the fundamental and most advanced techniques for ocular imprint-based human identification, with many applications in sectors such as healthcare, online education, e-business, metaverse, and entertainment. This is the first-ever book devoted to iris recognition that details cutting-edge techniques using deep neural networks. This book systematically introduces such algorithmic details with attractive illustrations, examples, experimental comparisons, and security analysis. It answers many fundamental questions about the most effective iris and periocular recognition techniques.

  • Embedded System Design

    Methodologies and Issues
    • 1st Edition
    • Lawrence J. Henschen + 1 more
    • English
    Embedded Systems Design: Methodologies and Issues presents methodologies for designing these systems and discusses major issues, both present and future, that designers must consider in bringing products with embedded processing to market. The book starts from the first step after product proposal (behavioral modeling) and goes through the steps for modeling internal operations. Specific areas of focus include methods for designing safe, reliable, and robust embedded systems. Sections cover selection of processors and related hardware as well as issues involved in designing related software. Finally, the book present issues that will occur in systems designed for the Internet of Things. This book is for junior/senior/MS students in computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering who intend to take jobs in industry designing and implementing embedded systems and Internet of Things applications.