Headspace

Headspace
by Paul Barrows

Shadow was a zero, a nothing, one of a growing underclass thrown up in the wake of the vast corporate leviathans which daily swallow ever-growing tracts of a crumbling society. The Net was his home, as it was to six billion others, the virtual worlds behind the eyepiece a new underworld where hackers cut deals and peddled terrabyte chunks of ripped-off corporate cake. But it was just data, the elaborate VR tapestry was an illusion spun by hi-res stereo optics. Cyberspace was just an electrical mirage, no more real than TV or hi-fi.

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Mammoth Free Ebooks

I feel that a post of this magnitude should be done once in a while to portray the greatness of ebooks in cyberspace. Not only ebooks are cheaper to produce, but most importantly, each ebook represents a few trees that you save from being cut down. This kind of post will come in once in a while, consisting of a long list of free ebooks from various categories. Instead of wrapping each ebook within a post, why not make a post to wrap around dozens of ebooks? Enough of mumbo jumbo, here you go with our first MAMMOTH FREE EBOOK updates…

1. Tones of SAP Ebooks
2. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
3. Free ebooks on Philippine history (History)
4. O’Reilly’s Open Ebooks (Computers & Internet)
5. The Underground Railroad: Narratives, Letters & Escapes (History)
6. Vulnerability Management for Dummies
7. Free ebooks on Creativity and Design
8. 4 Free and Great Programming Ebooks
9. Two Free eBooks From Lon Safko (Fiction & Non-Fiction)
10. Type in Berlin (Web 2.0 Typography)
11. Free eBooks, Excerpts, Stories!
12. Science fiction and fantasy books published by Dragon Moon Press
13. Free audiobooks from the public domain
14. The Burgomeister’s Books – Free ebook library
15. The Online Books Page
16. Free Online Literature with more than 2000 Classic Texts
17. Cornell University Library (524,213 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics)
18. Free eBooks for your PDA, iPhone, or eBook reader (Various topics in various formats)
19. Free Novels Online and Free Online Cyberbooks
20. The Universal Digital Library (A lot of ebooks)
21. Page by Page Books (Hundreds of classic books)
22. Carmilla by J. Sheridan LeFanu (Vampire based novella)
23. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
24. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
25. Information Overload (Information, advertising & communications)
26. The CoCreative Consumer (Consumers)
27. Short Stories & Flash Fiction
28. The Short Story (They even have competitions)
29. 17 Short Story Sites (In various formats)
30. Bookrags.com (Over 8.3 million pages of literature summaries, biographies, literary criticism, essays, encyclopedias, and eBooks)
31. ReadPrint.com – Free Online Library, Poems & Short Stories
32. Tones of Short Stories
33. ABC Radio 2007 Short Story Project (In audio formats)
34. Short Inspiring Stories (Some are just in a paragraph or two)
35. eServer.org – e-publishing co-op based at Iowa State University where hundreds of writers, editors and scholars gather to publish over 35,000 works free of charge.
36. Free Mobipocket eBooks
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Tools

1. 5 Free Useful PDF Tools
2. Stanza – Popular e-book reader for the iPhone

News / Articles

1. 20 Reasons Why 2009 Will Be the Year of the eBook
2. 1000 novels everyone must read

This should keep you occupied for a long time. If you’ve found any broken links or wish to provide a review on any of the links above, do leave it in the comments section. I’ll leave this post as sticky for a couple of days and see how it goes. Enjoy!

Design of VLSI Systems

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

C Programming

C++ (pronounced “see plus plus”) is a general-purpose, high-level programming language with low-level facilities. It is a statically typed free-form multi-paradigm language, supporting procedural programming, data abstraction, object-oriented programming, and generic programming. Since the 1990s, C++ has been one of the most popular commercial programming languages.

Bjarne Stroustrup developed C++ (originally named “C with Classes”) in 1983 at Bell Labs as an enhancement to the C programming language. Enhancements started with the addition of classes, followed by, among other features, virtual functions, operator overloading, multiple inheritance, templates, and exception handling. The C++ programming language standard was ratified in 1998 as ISO/IEC 14882:1998, the current version of which is the 2003 version, ISO/IEC 14882:2003. A new version of the standard (known informally as C++0x) is being developed.

Download the free ebooks below:-

Thinking in C++(second edition) by Bruce Eckel.
Thinking in C++ Volume 1
Thinking in C++ Volume 2

The C Book
Algorithms for programmers by Joerg Arndt.
The Art of Assembly Language
DataStructures – Algorithms and books about programming

Digital Signal Processing

Digital signal processing (DSP) is the study of signals in a digital representation and the processing methods of these signals. DSP and analog signal processing are subfields of signal processing. DSP includes subfields like: audio signal processing, control engineering, digital image processing and speech processing. RADAR Signal processing and communications signal processing are two other important subfields of DSP.

Since the goal of DSP is usually to measure or filter continuous real-world analog signals, the first step is usually to convert the signal from an analog to a digital form, by using an analog to digital converter. Often, the required output signal is another analog output signal, which requires a digital to analog converter.

The algorithms required for DSP are sometimes performed using specialized computers, which make use of specialized microprocessors called digital signal processors (also abbreviated DSP). These process signals in real time and are generally purpose-designed application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). When flexibility and rapid development are more important than unit costs at high volume, DSP algorithms may also be implemented using field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).

1. The Scientist & Engineer’s Guide to Digital Signal Processing by Steven W. Smith.
2. Mixed Signal and DSP Design Techniques edited by Walt Kester.
3. Numerical Recipes in C : The Art of Scientific Computing by William H. Press , Brian P. Flannery , Saul A. Teukolsky , William T. Vetterling.
4. Fundamentals of Image Processing by Ian T. Young, Jan J. Gerbrands, Lucas J. van Vliet