Microprocessors are Getting smaller, cheaper and faster. Every day, it is easier to embed more functionality into a smaller space. Embedded processors have become pervasive, and as time goes on, more and more functions that were once implemented with analog circuitry or with electromechanical assemblies are being realized with microcontrollers, ADCs and DACs. Many of these assemblies that are being supplanted by the microprocessor are controlling dynamic processes, which is a good thing, because the microprocessor coupled with the right software is often the superior device.
During the past years, there has been a quickly rising interest in radio access tech-
nologies for providing mobile as well as nomadic and fixed services for voice,
video, and data. The difference in design, implementation, and use between
telecom and datacom technologies is also Getting more blurred. One example is
cellular technologies from the telecom world being used for broadband data and
wireless LAN from the datacom world being used for voice over IP.
Emergingmarketshaveseenanunprecedentedgrowthinthelastfewyears.Theoperatorfocus
has been on giving complete coverage to all regions (urban to rural) and to subscription to all –
people from the highest to the lowest income groups. When the idea is taking coverage for
the remotest of the regions and Getting the ‘unconnected–connected’, technology and business
modelling are two important focus areas.
This is believed to be the first book that takes a view of nanotechnology from a
telecommunications and networking perspective. Nanotechnology refers to the manip-
ulation of materials at the atomic or molecular level. Nanotechnology is Getting a lot
of attention of late not only in academic settings and in laboratories around the
world, but also in government and venture capitalists’ initiatives. There now is a
major drive to commercialize the technology by all sorts of firms, ranging from start-
ups to Fortune 100 companies.
This effort started as an answer to the numerous questions the authors have
repeatedly had to answer about electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection and
input/output (1/0) designs. In the past no comprehensive book existed suffi-
ciently covering these areas, and these topics were rarely taught in engineering
schools. Thus first-time I/O and ESD protection designers have had consider-
able trouble Getting started. This book is in part an answer to such needs.
This book was written to help anyone want to get started with Arduino and Windows Remote Arduino. It describes
the basic elements of the integration of Arduino and Windows Remote Arduino.
We’re living through exciting times. The landscape of what computers can do is
changing by the week. Tasks that only a few years ago were thought to require
higher cognition are Getting solved by machines at near-superhuman levels of per-
formance. Tasks such as describing a photographic image with a sentence in idiom-
atic English, playing complex strategy game, and diagnosing a tumor from a
radiological scan are all approachable now by a computer. Even more impressively,
computers acquire the ability to solve such tasks through examples, rather than
human-encoded of handcrafted rules.
