- Introduction to Power Integrity for I/O Interfaces
- Oct 28, 2010
- It is becoming increasingly essential to determine not only the PDN noise, but also the margin degradation due to the noise coupling to signals. System designers need to consider a concurrent design methodology to evaluate power integrity and its effects on signal integrity.
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- Introduction to Separation Process Engineering
- Aug 29, 2011
- Since separations are ubiquitous in chemical plants and petroleum refineries, chemical engineers must be familiar with a variety of separation methods. This chapter introduces the importance of separations, the concept of equilibrium, mass transfer, and problem-solving methods.
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- Introductory Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics: Basic Concepts
- Mar 8, 2012
- The authors introduce the two basic premises of the first and second "laws" of thermodynamics: overall energy is conserved (you can't get something for nothing) and overall entropy changes are greater than or equal to zero (generation of disorder results in lost work).
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- Let's Get Physical: How Women Will Be a Part of the Upcoming Hardware Revolution
- Mar 18, 2014
- Hardware engineer Lisa Mazzocco about why hardware is the Next Big Thing, and why women are uniquely positioned to be leaders in the field of hardware engineering.
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- Microwave Integrated Circuits
- Jun 12, 2015
- This chapter from Microwave Circuit Design: A Practical Approach Using ADS discusses the classification of microwave integrated circuits and the use of microwave circuits in a communication system.
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- Notes on Digital Signal Processing: Overview of Sampling Techniques
- Jan 26, 2011
- This note discusses the difference between implicit and explicit sampling. It introduces three different mathematical models of explicit sampling techniques—ideal sampling, natural sampling, and instantaneous sampling.
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- PCB Currents: Fundamentals of Electrons and Charges
- Jul 17, 2013
- In this "Plain-English Guide to Electronics and Current Flow," renowned PCB designer Douglas Brooks teaches the fundamentals of electrons and charges.
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- Petroleum Reservoir Engineering Practice: Porosity of Reservoir Rocks
- Sep 16, 2010
- Since porosity data are very important in many reservoir engineering calculations, this introductory chapter reviews basic concepts in the determination of rock porosities.
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- Power Integrity Analysis and Management for Integrated Circuits: Power, Delivering Power, and Power Integrity
- Jun 10, 2010
- This chapter covers power, delivering power, and power integrity, with a focus on integrated circuits and systems.
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- Practical Applications in Digital Signal Processing: Review of Digital Frequency
- Nov 15, 2012
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- Scheduling Challenges with ARM's big.LITTLE Architecture
- Oct 28, 2013
- big.LITTLE is an ARM marketing term for a relatively simple concept. David Chisnall explains what big.LITTLE and similar strategies will mean for operating systems designers over the coming years.
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- Scope and Language of Thermodynamics
- Oct 30, 2012
- Themis Matsoukas details the specifics of thermodynamics as they relate to chemical engineering.
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- Signal and Power Integrity: Time and Frequency Domains
- Jul 22, 2009
- In this chapter, learn the basic properties of signals in preparation for looking at how they interact with interconnects.
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- Sustainable Engineering: An Introduction to Sustainability
- Jan 26, 2012
- Engineers in the 21st century will need to design for energy efficiency, mass efficiency, and low environmental emissions. Both near and long-term steps are needed reduce fossil resource consumption and approach zero waste generation from engineered processes and products.
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- The Dark Silicon Problem and What it Means for CPU Designers
- Oct 22, 2013
- The so-called "dark silicon problem" is the subject of a lot of marketing and misinformation. David Chisnall looks at what it really means for CPU designers and how it's likely to affect future processors.
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- The Role of Petroleum Production Engineering
- Dec 24, 2012
- The authors of "Petroleum Production Systems, 2nd Edition" discuss production engineering, the part of petroleum engineering that attempts to maximize production (or injection) in a cost-effective manner.
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- Towards Socially Responsible Innovation: An Interview with the Authors of Citizen Engineer
- Oct 29, 2009
- In this interview with David Douglas, Greg Papadopoulos, and John Boutelle, you’ll learn how engineers can take a more visible role in shaping the world.
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- Understanding Digital Signal Processing: Discrete Sequences and Systems
- Nov 15, 2010
- In this introduction to his book, Richard G. Lyons defines the terminology used in digital signal processing, illustrates the various ways of graphically representing discrete signals, establishes the notation used to describe sequences of data values, presents the symbols used to depict signal processing operations, and briefly introduces the concept of a linear discrete system.
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- Understanding Hardware Transactional Memory in Intel's Haswell Architecture
- Nov 5, 2013
- Haswell is the first mainstream architecture to include hardware support for transactional memory. David Chisnall describes how it works and what it means for developers.
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- What Are Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering?
- Aug 7, 2012
- Learn about features of the professions of chemical and bioengineering, including an overview of the history of these fields, where graduates of these programs go to work, and types of projects in which chemical and bioengineers might participate now and in the future.
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