Your Cisco Networking Academy Course Booklet is designed as a study resource you can easily read, high-
light, and review on the go, wherever the Internet is not available or practical:
■ The text is extracted directly, word-for-word, from the online course so you can highlight important
points and take notes in the “Your Chapter Notes” section.
■ Headings with the exact page correlations provide a Quick reference to the online course for your class-
room discussions and exam preparation.
■ An icon system directs you to the online curriculum to take full advantage of the images, labs, Packet
Tracer activities, and dynamic Flash-based activities embedded within the Networking Academy online
course interface.
This book on Project Management is intended as a Quick reference
covering important aspects of project management that should be understood
by managers in the telecommunications environment.
This book is organized with an introduction, which introduces the value
chain in telecommunications and illustrates the type of project, which one
might encounter in a telecommunications company.
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN) are believed to be a highly promising
technology and will play an increasingly important role in future
generation wireless mobile networks. WMN is characterized by
dynamic self-organization, self-configuration and self-healing to
enable Quick deployment, easy maintenance, low cost, high scalability
and reliable services, as well as enhancing network capacity, connect-
ivity and resilience.
Dear Reader, this book project brings to you a unique study tool for ESD
protection solutions used in analog-integrated circuit (IC) design. Quick-start
learning is combined with in-depth understanding for the whole spectrum of cross-
disciplinary knowledge required to excel in the ESD field. The chapters cover
technical material from elementary semiconductor structure and device levels up
to complex analog circuit design examples and case studies.
The idea of writing this book arose from the need to investigate the main principles of
modern power electronic control strategies, using fuzzy logic and neural networks, for
research and teaching. Primarily, the book aims to be a Quick learning guide for
postgraduate/undergraduate students or design engineers interested in learning the
fundamentals of modern control of drives and power systems in conjunction with the
powerful design methodology based on VHDL.
In this chapter we give a Quick overview of control theory, explaining why
integral feedback control works, describing PID controllers, and summariz-
ing some of the currently available techniques for PID controller design.
This background will serve to motivate our results on PID control, pre-
sented in the subsequent chapters.
This book addresses programmer attitudes, but it’s not some kind of psychology
textbook. We’ll investigate many topics, including:
Source code presentation
Defensive coding techniques
How to debug programs effectively
Good teamworking skills
Managing your source code
Take a Quick glance through the table of contents to see exactly what’s
covered. What is the rationale behind my selection of topics? I’ve been mentor-
ing trainee programmers for many years, and these are the topics that have
come up time and time again. I’ve also worked in the software factory for
long enough to have seen the recurring problems—I address these too.
If you can conquer all of these programming demons, you’ll progress
from an apprentice coder to a real code craftsman.
