ESD is a crucial factor for integrated circuits and influences their quality and reliability.
Today increasingly sensitive processes with deep sub micron structures are developed. The
integration of more and more functionality on a single chip and saving of chip area is
required. Integrated circuits become more susceptible to ESD/EOS related damages.
However, the requirements on ESD robustness especially for automotive applications are
increasing. ESD failures are very often the reason for redesigns. Much research has been
conducted by semiconductor manufacturers on ESD robust design.
Signals convey information. Systems transform signals. This book introduces the mathe-
matical models used to design and understand both. It is intended for students interested
in developing a deep understanding of how to digitally create and manipulate signals to
measure and control the physical world and to enhance human experience and communi-
cation.
The past decade has seen an explosion of machine learning research and appli-
cations; especially, deep learning methods have enabled key advances in many
applicationdomains,suchas computervision,speechprocessing,andgameplaying.
However, the performance of many machine learning methods is very sensitive
to a plethora of design decisions, which constitutes a considerable barrier for
new users. This is particularly true in the booming field of deep learning, where
human engineers need to select the right neural architectures, training procedures,
regularization methods, and hyperparameters of all of these components in order to
make their networks do what they are supposed to do with sufficient performance.
This process has to be repeated for every application. Even experts are often left
with tedious episodes of trial and error until they identify a good set of choices for
a particular dataset.
Inventors have long dreamed of creating machines that think. This desire dates
back to at least the time of ancient Greece. The mythical figures Pygmalion,
Daedalus, and Hephaestus may all be interpreted as legendary inventors, and
Galatea, Talos, and Pandora may all be regarded as artificial life ( , Ovid and Martin
2004 Sparkes 1996 Tandy 1997 ; , ; , ).
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.
Although state of the art in many typical machine learning tasks, deep learning
algorithmsareverycostly interms ofenergyconsumption,duetotheirlargeamount
of required computations and huge model sizes. Because of this, deep learning
applications on battery-constrained wearables have only been possible through
wireless connections with a resourceful cloud. This setup has several drawbacks.
First, there are privacy concerns. Cloud computing requires users to share their raw
data—images, video, locations, speech—with a remote system. Most users are not
willing to do this. Second, the cloud-setup requires users to be connected all the
time, which is unfeasible given current cellular coverage. Furthermore, real-time
applications require low latency connections, which cannot be guaranteed using
the current communication infrastructure. Finally, wireless connections are very
inefficient—requiringtoo much energyper transferredbit for real-time data transfer
on energy-constrained platforms.
Introduction The Sil9135/Sil9135A HDMI Receiver with Enhanced Audio and deep Color Outputs is a second-generation dual-input High Definition Multimedia Interface(HDMI)receiver. It is software-compatible with the Sil9133receiver, but adds audio support for DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD. Digital televisions that can display 10-or 12-bit color depth can now provide the highest quality protected digital audio and video over a single cable. The Sil9135and Sil9135A devices, which are functionally identical, can receive deep Color video up to 12-bit,1080p @60Hz. Backward compatibility with the DVI 1.0specification allows HDMI systems to connect to existing DVI 1.0 hosts, such as HD set-top boxes and PCs. Silicon Image HDMI receivers use the latest generation Transition Minimized Differential Signaling(TMDS) core technology that runs at 25-225 MHz.The chip comes pre-programmed with High-bandwidth?
