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ZigBee is a short-range wireless networking standard backed by such industry leaders as Motorola, Texas Instruments, Philips, Samsung, Siemens, Freescale, etc. It supports mesh networking, each node can transmit and receive data, offers high security and robustness, and is being rapidly adopted in industrial, control/monitoring, and medical applications. This book will explain the ZigBee protocol, discuss the design of ZigBee hardware, and describe how to design and implement ZigBee networks. The book has a dedicated website for the latest technical updates, ZigBee networking calculators, and additional materials. Dr. Farahani is a ZigBee system engineer for Freescale semiconductors Inc.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: ZigBee Basics
Chapter 2: ZigBee / IEEE 802.15.4 Networking Examples
Chapter 3: ZigBee / IEEE 802.15.4 Protocol Layers
Chapter 4: Transceiver Requirements
Chapter 5: RF Propagation, Antennas, and Regulatory Requirements
Chapter 6: Battery Life Analysis
Chapter 7: Location Estimating Using ZigBee
Chapter 8: ZigBee Coexistence
Chapter 9: Related Technologies
Appendices

KEY FEATURES

* Provides a comprehensive overview of ZigBee technology and networking, from RF/physical layer considerations to application layer development.
* Discusses ZigBee security features such as encryption.
* Describes how ZigBee can be used in location detection applications.
* Explores techniques for ZigBee co-existence with other wireless technologies such as 802.11 and Bluetooth..
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The Avalanche Handbook remains an unrivaled resource for comprehensive information on avalanches and snow safety Technical yet accessible, it contains new information and nearly 200 updated illustrations, photos and examples Features: Includes the latest information, techniques and research on understanding and surviving avalanches Contains new information on the unique characteristics of alpine snow, snow slab instability, terrain variables, skier triggering of avalanches, and the nature of avalanche motion Brand-new chapters on the elements of backcountry avalanche forecasting and the decision-making process An essential reference for outdoor instructors, snow management professionals and backcountry users everywhere Specifications: Length: 288 pages.
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Loaded with vital information, the ABCs of Avalanche Safety is an inexpensive instructional manual on staying safe in avalanche country Perfect for base camp reading or specific section review Features: Specifications: Pages: 192 Cover: Paperback ISBN: 0898868858.
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Since the publication of Wireless Video Communications five years ago, the area of video compression and wireless transceivers has evolved even further This new edition addresses a range of recent developments in these areas, giving cognizance to the associated transmission aspects and issues of error resilience.

Video Compression and Communications has been updated and condensed yet remains all-encompassing, giving a comprehensive overview of the subject. Covering compression issues, coding delay, implementational complexity and bitrate, the book also looks at the historical perspective to video communication.

• New edition of successful and informative text, Wireless Video Communications
• Substantial new material has been added on areas such as H.264, MPEG4 coding and transceivers
• Clear presentation and broad scope make it essential for anyone interested in wireless communications
• Systematically converts the lessons of Shannon's information theory into design principles applicable to practical wireless systems.

This book is ideal for postgraduates and researchers in communication systems but will also be a valuable reference to undergraduates, development and systems engineers of video compression applications as well as industrialists, managers and visual communications practitioners..
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Low Power UWB CMOS Radar Sensors deals with the problem of designing low cost CMOS radar sensors The radar sensor uses UWB signals in order to obtain a reasonable target separation capability, while maintaining a maximum signal frequency below 2 GHz. This maximum frequency value is well within the reach of current CMOS technologies. The use of UWB signals means that most of the methodologies used in the design of circuits and systems that process narrow band signals, can no longer be applied.

Low Power UWB CMOS Radar Sensors provides an analysis between the interaction of UWB signals, the antennas and the processing circuits. This analysis leads to some interesting conclusions on the types of antennas and types of circuits that should be used. A methodology to compare the noise performance of UWB processing circuits is also derived. This methodology is used to analyze and design the constituting circuits of the radar transceiver. In order to validate the design methodology a CMOS prototype is designed and experimentally evaluated.

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The desire to build lower cost analog front-ends has triggered interest in a new domain of research Consequently the joint design of the analog front-end and of the digital baseband algorithms has become an important field of research. It enables the wireless systems and chip designers to more effectively trade the communication performance with the production cost.

Digital Compensation for Analog Front-Ends provides a systematic approach to designing a digital communication system. It covers in detail the digital compensation of many non-idealities, for a wide class of emerging broadband standards and with a system approach in the design of the receiver algorithms. In particular, system strategies for joint estimation of synchronization and front-end non-ideality parameters are emphasized. The book is organized to allow the reader to gradually absorb the important information and vast quantity of material on this subject. The first chapter is a comprehensive introduction to the emerging wireless standards which is followed by a detailed description of the front-end non-idealities in chapter two. Chapter three then uses this information to explore what happens when the topics introduced in the first two chapters are merged. The book concludes with two chapters providing an in-depth coverage of the estimation and compensation algorithms.

This book is a valuable reference for wireless system architects and chip designers as well as engineers or managers in system design and development. It will also be of interest to researchers in industry and academia, graduate students and wireless network operators.

• Presents a global, systematic approach to the joint design of the analog front-end compensation, channel estimation, synchronization and of the digital baseband algorithms
• Describes in depth the main front-end non-idealities such as phase noise, IQ imbalance, non-linearity, clipping, quantization, carrier frequency offset, sampling clock offset and their impact on the modulation
• Explains how the non-idealities introduced by the analog front-end elements can be compensated digitally
• Methodologies are applied to the emerging Wireless Local Area Network and outdoor Cellular communication systems, hence covering OFDM(A), SC-FDE and MIMO
• Written by authors with  in-depth expertise developed in the wireless research group of IMEC and projects covering the main broadband wireless standards

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This unique, all-inclusive guide provides complete instructions for building a sophisticated yet low-cost microprocessor-controlled radio transceiver, as well as smaller projects such as simple frequency synthesizer and spectrum analyzer. Readers will get hands-on experience with interfacing digital and analog circuitry, fabricating circuit boards, anticipating the real-world behavior of RF circuits, and more includes circuit-board layouts, parts lists, and schematic diagrams..
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Analog and mixed signal integrated systems of today and tomorrow will be very complex, as they meet the challenge and increased demand for higher levels of integration in a System on Chip (SoC). Current and future trends call for pushing system integration to the highest levels in order to achieve low cost and low power for large volume products in the consumer and telecom markets, such as feature-rich handheld battery-operated devices. In today’s analog design environment, a fully integrated CMOS SoC design may require several silicon spins before it meets all product specifications and often with relatively low yields. This results in significant increase in development cost, especially that mask set costs increase exponentially as feature size scales down.

This book is devoted to the subject of adaptive techniques for smart analog and mixed signal design whereby fully functional first-pass silicon is achievable. To our knowledge, this is the first book devoted to this subject. The techniques described should lead to quantum improvement in design productivity of complex analog and mixed signal systems while significantly cutting the spiraling costs of product development in emerging nanometer technologies. The underlying principles and design techniques presented are generic and would certainly apply to CMOS analog and mixed signal platforms in high volume , low-cost wireless , wire line, and consumer electronic SoC or chip set solutions.

Adaptive Techniques for Mixed Signal Sytem on Chip discusses the concept of adaptation in the context of analog and mixed signal design along with different adaptive architectures used to control any system parameter. The first part of the book gives an overview of the different elements that are normally used in adaptive designs including tunable elements as well as voltage, current, and time references with an emphasis on the circuit design of specific blocks such as voltage-controlled transconductors, offset comparators, and a novel technique for accurate implementation of on chip resistors. While the first part of the book addresses adaptive techniques at the circuit and block levels, the second part discusses adaptive equalization architectures employed to minimize the impact of ISI (Intersymbol Interference) on the quality of received data in high-speed wire line transceivers. It presents the implementation of a 125Mbps transceiver operating over a variable length of Category 5 (CAT-5) Ethernet cable as an example of adaptive equalizers.

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This authoritative and well-researched book is the only one that will give all of the most important and reliable on VHF antenna construction techniques This unique book offers a superb collection of detailed, easy-to-follow, fully illustrated, and tested designs, covering such types of antennas as: omnidirectional antennas, gain-omni antennas, gain-directed beams, portable antennas, Yagi antennas, stacked arrays, stacked collinears, wideband-omni antennas. Packed with detailed drawings, plans, schematics, instructions, material lists, formulas, tips and tricks. Plus, the reader is given and extra chapter on converting the designs for other frequency bands, making it profitable not just for amateurs, but for professionals as well..
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