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This book is designed to give electrical engineers the RF microelectronics background they need to design state-of-the-art consumer electronics and communications devices. RF Microelectronics begins with a thorough introduction to the fundamental concepts of RF design, including nonlinearity, interference and noise. It reviews modulation and detection theory; multiple access techniques, and current wireless standards -- including CDMA, TDMA, AMPS and GSM. It presents case studies of transceiver architectures designed by several leading manufacturers. Finally, it offers detailed explanations of low-noise amplifiers, mixers and oscillators; frequency synthesizers and power amplifiers. For electrical engineers working in the communications fields, espec...

This book tries to give students of computer science and professional programmers a general understanding of operating systems - the programs that enable people to share computers efficiently. To make the sharing of a computer tolerable, and operating system must enforce certain rules of behaviour on all its users. One would therefore expect the designers of operating systems to do their utmost to make them as simple, efficient, and realiable as as possible. A number of operating systems made in the early of 1960's had these characteristics; but in the late 1960's designers were often overambitious and built enormous systems with poor performance. I see no inherent reason why operating systems should not reach the quality of program costruction found...

What is a BIOS? BIOS, pronounced "bye-ose," is an acronym that standsfor Basic Input Output System. The BIOS is built-in software that determineswhat a computer can do without accessing programs from a disk. On PCs, theBIOS contains all the code required to control the keyboard, display screen,disk drives, serial communications, and a number of miscellaneous functions.Furthermore, The BIOS is responsible for booting your PC by providing abasic set of instructions. The BIOS performs all the necessary tasks that needto be initiated at start-up time: POST(Power-On Self Test, booting anoperating system from FDD or HDD). In essence, it is necessary to upgradethe BIOS on your PC in order to maintain or inevitably obtain compatibilitywith the PC i...

In Definitive XSL-FO, one of the world's leading XML experts shows how XSL-FO revolutionizes the publishing of graphic-arts quality print and electronic documents. The book offers concise, authoritative guidance for using every formatting object in the W3C XSL-FO recommendation. Coverage includes objectives, semantics, vocabulary, key concepts, practical techniques, examples, and much more....