With the advances in the semiconductor and communication industries, it has become increasingly
important for electrical engineers to develop a good understanding of microelectronics.
This book addresses the need for a text that teaches microelectronics from a modern and intuitive
perspective. Guided by my industrial, research, and academic experience, I have chosen
the topics, the order, and the depth and breadth so as to efficiently impart analysis and design
principles that the students will find useful as they enter the industry or graduate school.
Real-Time Design Patterns: Robust Scalable Architecture for Real-Time Systems. In this book, Bruce Douglass illustrates for the first time how two important contemporary software
engineering advances鈥攑atterns and the UML鈥攃an be applied advantageously to the concepts and
techniques traditionally used in mainstream real-time software.
For a programming language, Fortran has been around a long time. It was one
of the first widely used 鈥渉igh-level鈥?languages, as well as the first
programming language to be standardized. It is still the premier language for
scientific and engineering computing applications.
The purpose of this handbook is to describe the latest version of this language,
Fortran 90. This chapter gives some history of the development and
standardization of Fortran and describes the notation used to specify the
syntax of Fortran 90.
Fortran has always been the principal language used in the fields of scientific,
numerical, and engineering programming, and a series of revisions to the standard
defining successive versions of the language has progressively enhanced its power
and kept it competitive with several generations of rivals.
Beginning in 1978, the technical committee responsible for the development
of Fortran standards, X3J3 (now called J3), laboured to produce a new, much-
needed modern version of the language, Fortran 90. Its purpose is to "promote
portability, reliability, maintainability, and efficient execution... on a variety of
computing systems". The standard was published in 1991, and work began in
1993 on a minor revision, known informally as Fortran 95. Now this revised
To introduce software process models
To describe three generic process models and when they may be used
To describe outline process models for requirements engineering, software development, testing and evolution
To explain the Rational Unified Process model
To introduce CASE technology to support software process activities
A certification path is an ordered list of certificates starting with a certificate issued by the relying
party s trust root, and ending with the target certificate that needs to be validated. Certification
path validation procedures are based on the algorithm supplied in ITU-T Recommendation X.509
and further defined in Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Request for Comments (RFC)
3280. Certification path processing verifies the binding between the subject distinguished name
and/or subject alternative name and the subject public key defined in the target certificate. The
binding is limited by constraints, which are specified in the certificates that comprise the path,
and inputs that are specified by the relying party. To ensure secure interoperation of PKI-enabled
applications, the path validation must be done in accordance with the X.509 and RFC 3280
specifications. This document provides the test assertions and the test cases for testing path
validation software against these specifications.
The Kalman filter is an efficient recursive filter that estimates the state of a linear dynamic system from a series of noisy measurements. It is used in a wide range of engineering applications from radar to computer vision, and is an important topic in control theory and control systems engineering. Together with the linear-quadratic regulator (LQR), the Kalman filter solves the linear-quadratic-Gaussian control problem (LQG). The Kalman filter, the linear-quadratic regulator and the linear-quadratic-Gaussian controller are solutions to what probably are the most fundamental problems in control theory.
