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Electrical based ebooks are in great demand these days. However if you search hard enough, there’s a lot of freely available online resources out there which you can take advantage of. Here are a few (do leave your comments if you know of others):-
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Residential Electrical Quick Guide
by Larry Angell
The PDF guide is a 38-page e-book with home electrical wiring diagrams, symbols, codes, and many instructional photos. It covers areas like simple electrical circuits like home lighting systems as well as difficult wiring systems such as breaker boxes and 240-volt circuits. This is a 14MB download with graphics and text.
Click on the link below to download this free guide:-
Residential Electrical Quick Guide (PDF)
Since the iPod was first introduce over fours ago is has proven to be a versatile little tool. Even though the architecture is tightly closed, hackers have managed to find their way in so that they can make modifications. Software developers and creators of content have made it possible for you to use the iPod to keep all kinds of information at your finger tips. Besides being a unique way to carry around your music wherever you go, the iPod can be used for many other purposes.
Very-large-scale integration (VLSI) is the process of creating integrated circuits by combining thousands of transistor-based circuits into a single chip. VLSI began in the 1970s when complex semiconductor and communication technologies were being developed. The microprocessor is a VLSI device. The term is no longer as common as it once was, as chips have increased in complexity into the hundreds of millions of transistors.
The first semiconductor chips held one transistor each. Subsequent advances added more and more transistors, and as a consequence more individual functions or systems were integrated over time. The first integrated circuits held only a few devices, perhaps as many as ten diodes, transistors, resistors and capacitors, making it possible to fabricate one or more logic gates on a single device. Now known retroactively as “small-scale integration” (SSI), improvements in technique led to devices with hundreds of logic gates, known as large-scale integration (LSI), i.e. systems with at least a thousand logic gates. The same process led to ICs with thousands of devices, becoming LSI. Current technology has moved far past this mark and today’s microprocessors have many millions of gates and hundreds of millions of individual transistors.
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The whole ebook
Chapter 1 – Introduction to VLSI Systems
Chapter 2 – CMOS Fabrication Technology and Design Rules
Chapter 3 – Full-Custom Mask Layout System
Chapter 4 – Parasitic Extraction and Performance Estimation from Physical Structure
Chapter 5 – Clock Signals and System Timing
Chapter 6 – Arithmetic for Digital Systems
Chapter 7 – Low-Power VLSI Circuits and Systems
Chapter 8 – Testability of Integrated Systems
Chapter 9 – Fuzzy Logic Systems
Chapter 10 – VLSI For Multimedia Applications – Case Study: Digital TV
Chapter 11 – VLSI For Telecommunication Systems
Chapter 12 – Digital Signal Processing Architectures
Chapter 13 – Architectures for video processing
Semiconductors are very similar to insulators. The two categories of solids differ primarily in that insulators have larger band gaps — energies that electrons must acquire to be free to flow. In semiconductors at room temperature, just as in insulators, very few electrons gain enough thermal energy to leap the band gap, which is necessary for conduction. For this reason, pure semiconductors and insulators, in the absence of applied fields, have roughly similar electrical properties. The smaller bandgaps of semiconductors, however, allow for many other means besides temperature to control their electrical properties.
Your free downloadable ebooks:-
Compound Semiconductor Devices, Spring 2003 by Mit Opencourseware
Industrial Policy And Semiconductors: Missing The Target by Andrew Ronald Dick
Materials For High-temperature Semiconductor Devices by Committee On Materials For High-temperature Semiconductor Devices
Photoelectric Properties and Applications of Low-Mobility Semiconductors by Rolf Könenkamp
Productivity And Cyclicality In Semiconductors: Trends, Implications, And Questions — Report Of A Symposium by Dale W. Jorgenson And Charles W. Wessner
Securing The Future: Regional And National Programs To Support The Semiconductor Industry by Charles W. Wessner
Semiconductor Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics by Yamamoto
Semiconductor Optoelectronics: Theory and Design, Fall 2002 by Mit Opencourseware
