The subject of VLSI systems spans a broad range of disciplines, including semiconductor devices and processing, integrated electronic circuits, digital logic, design disciplines and tools for creating complex systems, and the architecture, algorithms, and applications of complete VLSI systems. The Addison-Wesley VLSI Systems Series is being organized as a set of textbooks and research references that present the best current work across this exciting and diverse field, with each book providing for its subject a perspective that ties it to related disciplines. Part of what distinguishes the expert chip designer from the novice is an understanding the entire suite of tools that are available, and how they work together to support the design flow of a project.
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The situation we find ourselves today in the field of microcontrollers had its beginnings in the development of technology of integrated circuits. This development has enabled us to store hundreds of thousands of transistors into one chip. That was a precondition for the manufacture of microprocessors. The first computers were made by adding external peripherals such as memory, input/output lines, timers and others to it. Further increasing of package density resulted in creating an integrated circuit which contained both processor and peripherals.
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The interfacing of analytical instrumentation to small computers for the purpose of on-line data acquisition has now become almost standard practice in the modern chemistry laboratory. Using widely-available, low-cost microcomputers and off-the-shelf add-in components, it is now easier than ever to acquire large amounts of data quickly in digital form.In what ways is on-line digital data acquisition superior to the old methods such as the chart recorder? Some of the advantages are obvious, such as archival storage and retrieval of data and post-run replotting with adjustable scale expansion.
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This book is a must-read for DSP designers who want to tap the power of the Virtex™-4 XtremeDSP™ Slice. It provides a detailed description of the multiple features of the slice as well as providing multiple examples that show you how to harness the power and flexibility of this powerful IP block. Tap into the XtremeDSP Slice and reap the rewards of highest performance.
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A random or stochastic process is a mathematical model for a phenomenon that evolves in time in an unpredictable manner from the viewpoint of the observer. The phenomenon may be a sequence of real-valued measurements of voltage or temperature, a binary data stream from a computer, a modulated binary data stream from a modem, a sequence of coin tosses, the daily Dow–Jones average, radiometer data or photographs from deep space probes, a sequence of images from a cable television, or any of an infinite number of possible sequences, waveforms, or signals of any imaginable type.

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