2nd Edition

Microelectronics

By Jerry C. Whitaker Copyright 2006
    464 Pages 150 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    When it comes to electronics, demand grows as technology shrinks. From consumer and industrial markets to military and aerospace applications, the call is for more functionality in smaller and smaller devices. Culled from the second edition of the best-selling Electronics Handbook, Microelectronics, Second Edition presents a summary of the current state of microelectronics and its innovative directions.

    This book focuses on the materials, devices, and applications of microelectronics technology. It details the IC design process and VLSI circuits, including gate arrays, programmable logic devices and arrays, parasitic capacitance, and transmission line delays. Coverage ranges from thermal properties and semiconductor materials to MOSFETs, digital logic families, memory devices, microprocessors, digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital converters, digital filters, and multichip module technology. Expert contributors discuss applications in machine vision, ad hoc networks, printing technologies, and data and optical storage systems. The book also includes defining terms, references, and suggestions for further reading. This edition features two new sections on fundamental properties and semiconductor devices.

    With updated material and references in every chapter, Microelectronics, Second Edition is an essential reference for work with microelectronics, electronics, circuits, systems, semiconductors, logic design, and microprocessors.

    Semiconductor Materials; Stuart K. Tewksbury
    Thermal Properties; David F. Besch
    Semiconductors; Sidney Soclof
    Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor; John R. Brews
    Integrated Circuits; Tom Chen
    Integrated Circuit Design; Samuel O. Agbo and Eugene D. Fabricius
    Digital Logic Families; Robert J. Feugate, Jr.
    Memory Devices; Shih-Lien Lu
    Microprocessors; James G. Cottle
    D/A and A/D Converters; Susan A. Garrod
    Application-Specific Integrated Circuits; Constantine N. Anagnostopoulos and Paul P.K. Lee
    Digital Filters; Jonathon A. Chambers, Sawasd Tantaratana and Bruce W. Bomar
    Multichip Module Technology; Paul D. Franzon
    Testing of Integrated Circuits; Wayne Needham
    Semiconductor Failure Modes; Victor Meeldijk
    Fundamental Computer Architecture; Joy S. Shetler
    Software Design and Development; Margaret H. Hamilton
    Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems; Bogdan M. Wilamowski
    Machine Vision; David A. Kosiba and Rangachar Kasturi
    A Brief Survey of Speech Enhancement; Yariv Ephraim, Hanoch Lev-Ari and William J.J. Roberts
    Ad Hoc Networks; Michel D. Yacoub, Paulo Cardieri, Élvio João Leonardo, Alvaro Augusto Machado Medeiros
    Network Communication; James E. Goldman
    Printing Technologies and Systems; John D. Meyer
    Data Storage Systems; Jerry C. Whitaker
    Optical Storage Systems; Praveen Asthana
    Error Correction; Fabrizio Pollara

    Biography

    Jerry C. Whitaker