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This course- the first in a series of three - provides a foundation for understanding the field of cluster analysis in unlabeled data. The target audience for this course comprises undergraduate and graduate students majoring in engineering and science, as well as practicing engineers and scientists interested in either research about or applications of clustering to real world problems such as data mining, image analysis and bioinformatics. The subject matter is widely available in a number of...
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As the embedded market is expected to increase in the near future, a standardized software design methodology for these systems is desirable, but currently does not exist. The design of a real-time embedded system involves selecting a hardware platform and either 1) selecting a commercially available realtime operating system (RTOS) or 2) utilizing a ‘round-robin’ loop customized for the application. Presuming that the software requirements have been established within a Software Requirements Do...
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This course expands on the concepts introduced in the first course, "A Software Design Methodology for Real-Time Embedded Systems," with emphasis on useful Design and Coding Guidelines. Upon completing this second course, you will have learned everything needed to implement the Design Method and Architecture in your current embedded system project....
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This tutorial will provide an overview of advanced interconnect technologies, including dielectric materials, patterning, metallization, CMP, and packaging. New processes will be discussed, such as ultra-low K dielectrics, air-gap structures, low-damage patterning methods, thin barrier and seed layers, refractory metal capping layers, and novel CMP techniques. The effect of these processes on performance and reliability will be briefly described....
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This is a 2-part course. The Advanced Protocols for Wireless Ad-hoc Networks will illustrate that in Ad-Hoc networks where there is no underlying fixed infrastructure, tasks such as network self-organization, mobility management, adaptive route detection for unicast and multicast applications, and provisioning of Gateway functionality to interconnect the ad-hoc network to the rest of the Internet space must be handled according to rules that are unique to the ad-hoc nature of the system. Topics ...
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Cost control, production efficiency, cycle time and yield are critical quality benchmarks for nano-electronics production. Their sensitivity to the statistical variations of the IC manufacturing process is increasing more and more in comparison to the process complexity. Therefore, the following two joint tasks become essential: To characterize statistically IC manufacturing fluctuations, and To predict reliably circuit performance spreads at the design stage.

In this tutorial we will ...
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This advanced course will be a valuable resource for software developers who are implementing UPnP technology in their products. It provides detailed information about building UPnP Audio/Video products (such as those compatible with media players like Sony.s Playstation 3), and hands-on demonstrations of development tools helpful for anyone building UPnP-based products. The Advanced course also provides an introduction to UPnP Security....
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In the last few years, a series of breakthrough innovations have been made to transform analog-intensive RF circuitry into digitally-intensive implementations. In Texas Instruments, this disruptive technology falls under the umbrella of a Digital RF Processor (DRP^TM) platform and enables to integrate almost all of cellular phone modem electronics into a single IC chip fabricated using nanoscale digital CMOS process. The first such single-chip mobile phone was sampled in December 2004 and is now...
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Leadership can be defined as the ability of an individual to influence, motivate, and enable others to contribute toward the effectiveness and success of the organizations of which they are members. Leadership is not dependant on title or formal authority. All too often we think of leadership as something we will develop and apply later rather than earlier in our career. This applies to both leadership within our chosen technical discipline and leadership of our profession. In the early stages o...
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In terms of green engineering design and manufacturing sustainability we consider the following:

1. An eco-friendly state, or process that can be maintained over time, for a very long time.
2. The ability of an ecosystem to maintain ecological advanced design and manufacturing processes and functions, biological diversity, and productivity over time.
3. Green sustainability encompasses the concept of meeting present design and manufacturing needs without compromising the ability of ...
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The purpose of this tutorial is to explain the importance of the subject area of sustainable green engineering. We present an overview of some of the challenges, and some of the solutions we have for sustainable lean and green engineering in product, process, and service systems in various industries. We will provide examples of products, processes, and service systems in manufacturing, design, electronic, automotive, and construction. We will discuss the fundamentals of alternative energy sourc...
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This tutorial will cover the principles and architectures of analog digital converter design. The tutorial begins with a review of domain conversion including sampling, aliasing, and usable bandwidth. Next, quantization will be discussed with a focus on effective dynamic range and linearity. The tutorial will conclude with a review of architectural survey including single slope/dual slope ADCs, flash ADCs, successive approximation, algorithmic ADCs, pipeline ADCs, sigma delta modulators and cont...
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This tutorial will cover the ADC building blocks and design trade-offs of analog digital converter design. The tutorial begins by discussing handling signals including voltage, current and charge. Next, signal management (“floors and ceilings”) will be covered. This will lead into a discussion of the key building blocks: Comparator, Amplifiers, SHA, and DAC....
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Neural Networks are information processing systems inspired by the ability of human brain to learn from observations and to generalize by abstraction. It has been used in diverse fields such as pattern recognition, speech processing, control, medical applications and more. In recent years, it has emerged as an attractive vehicle in the RF/microwave CAD community to address the challenges in high-frequency electronic modeling and design. Neural networks can learn and generalize from data allowing...
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