With the advent of IMT-2000, CDMA has emerged at the focal point of
interest in wireless communications. Now it has become impossible to discuss
wireless communications without knowing the CDMA technologies. There are
a number of books readily published on the CDMA technologies, but they are
mostly dealing with the traditional spread-spectrum technologies and the IS-95
based CDMA systems. As a large number of novel and interesting technologies
have been newly developed throughout the IMT-2000 standardization process
in very recent years, new reference books are now demanding that address the
diverse spectrum of the new CDMA technologies.
Rapid progress in information and communications technology (ICT) induces
improved and new telecommunications services and contributes greatly to society
in general and to vendors and network and service providers. In addition to existing
services such as telephony or leased line services, spread of the Internet, the Internet
Protocol (IP) phone, and new communications services like IPTV are making great
progress with the development of digital subscriber lines (DSL) and high - speed
communications technologies like fi ber to the home (FTTH).
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his book covers basic communications theory and practical imple-
mentation of transmitters and receivers. In so doing, I focus on dig-
ital modulation, demodulation methods, probabilities, detection of
digital signals, and spread spectrum system design and analysis. This book
was written for those who want a good understanding of the basic prin-
ciples of digital wireless communication systems, including spread spec-
trum techniques. This book also provides a good intuitive and practical
approach to digital communications. Therefore it is a valuable resource for
anyoneinvolvedinwirelesscommunicationsandtransceiverdesignfordig-
ital communications. The reader will gain a broad understanding of basic
communication principles for transceiver design, digital communications,
and spread spectrum, along with examples of many types of commercial
and military data link systems.
Since electronic equipment was first developed, static electricity has been a
source of problems for users and designers. In the last few years, however,
electrostatic discharge (ESD) has become a source of major problems. This
has occurred because newer electronic devices, such as integrated circuits,
are much more susceptible to ESD problems than previous devices, such as
vacuum tubes. Another trend compounding this ESD susceptibility problem
is the spread of sophisticated equipment into home and office environments
where ESD is quite common.
Applications of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and microfabrica-
tion have spread to different fields of engineering and science in recent years.
Perhaps the most exciting development in the application of MEMS technol-
ogy has occurred in the biological and biomedical areas. In addition to key
fluidic components, such as microvalves, pumps, and all kinds of novel
sensors that can be used for biological and biomedical analysis and mea-
surements, many other types of so-called micro total analysis systems (TAS)
have been developed.
