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Offers an expert's insight into how and why networks operate as they do. Describes all of the major networking algorithms and protocols in use today in clear and concise terms, while exploring the engineering trade-offs that the different approaches represent. DLC: Routers (Computer networks). .
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One of the greatest challenges faced by designers of digital systems is optimizing the communication and interconnection between system components. Interconnection networks offer an attractive and economical solution to this communication crisis and are fast becoming pervasive in digital systems. Current trends suggest that this communication bottleneck will be even more problematic when designing future generations of machines. Consequently, the anatomy of an interconnection network router and science of interconnection network design will only grow in importance in the coming years.

This book offers a detailed and comprehensive presentation of the basic principles of interconnection network design, clearly illustrating them with numerous examples, chapter exercises, and case studies. It incorporates hardware-level descriptions of concepts, allowing a designer to see all the steps of the process from abstract design to concrete implementation.

·Case studies throughout the book draw on extensive author experience in designing interconnection networks over a period of more than twenty years, providing real world examples of what works, and what doesn't.

·Tightly couples concepts with implementation costs to facilitate a deeper understanding of the tradeoffs in the design of a practical network.

·A set of examples and exercises in every chapter help the reader to fully understand all the implications of every design decision..
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A must-have resource for any parent or educator who wants to help children think about interconnections in our world.

Each chapter focuses on a favorite children's picture book--and reveals the systems principle inherent in the story, general points for discussion, illustrations of key concepts, and questions to spark conversation for both younger and older readers..
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Given the challenges of the environmental crisis, Buddhism's teaching of the interrelatedness of all life forms may be critical to the recovery of human reciprocity with nature. In this new work, twenty religionists and environmentalists examine Buddhism's understanding of the intricate web of life. In noting the cultural diversity of Buddhism, they highlight aspects of the tradition which may help formulate an effective environmental ethics, citing examples from both Asia and the United States of socially engaged Buddhist projects to protect the environment. The authors explore theoretical and methodological issues and analyze the prospects and problems of using Buddhism as an environmental resource in both theory and practice. This groundbreaking volume inaugurates a larger series examining the religions of the world and their ecological implications which will shape a new field of study involving religious issues, contemporary environmental ethics, and public policy concerns..
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Many accounts of human communication suggests that communicating is limited to words, or at best, visual images, the mass media and modern IT. In this book Ruth Finnegan argues that many of our assumptions about communication have been word-centered. These analyses ignore the dynamic experiences of gesture, movement, dance, and sound itself. Using examples from Ireland and Italy, through West Africa and India to Japan and Australia, Communicating explores the different modes of communication to reveal why a limited view of this communciation is unsatisfactory..
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The wire bonding bible - now revised and expanded! Get the practical know-how you need to design and evaluate wire bonds engineered with the latest - and still-evolving- metallurgies Extensively revised and updated, the Second Edition of George Harman's classic Wire Bonding in Microelectronics shows you step-by-step how to exploit new higherm density interconnection techniques and engineer reliable gonds at a very high yield. You get the hands-on guidance you need to test wire bonds...clean bond pads to improve bondability and realiability...solve cratering, heel cracks, bond fatigue, so-called purple plague and other mechanical problems....bond wires to multichip modules...and much, much more. You also get up-to-the-minute details on utilizing fine pitch SMT, applying new bonding metallurgies, and exploring wire sweep and the wire bonding mechanism..
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Perlman, renowned throughout the networking community for her work defining and implementing this interconnection technology, has pulled all this information together in one source. All the hidden problems, headaches, and errors in the standards are shown and she offers her own programming solutions to overcome these obstacles..
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In recent years, heat-sensitive electronic systems have been miniaturized far more than their heat-producing power supplies, leading to major design and reliability challenges — and making thermal management a critical design factor. This timely handbook covers all the practical issues that any packaging engineer must consider with regard to the thermal management of printed circuit boards, hybrid circuits, and multichip modules. Readers will also benefit from the extensive data on material properties and circuit functions, thus enabling more intelligent decisions at the design stage — and preventing thermal-related problems from occurring in the first place..
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As the circuit densities of modern electronic systems continue to increase dramatically, so too has the popularity of flexible printed circuit boards. With their substrates of polyamides like Kapton or Mylar that enable bending and twisting, this new breed of circuitry affords designers the ability to work with much more surface area within much smaller spaces. Here is the most complete and cohesive guide to this burgeoning field yet published. A one-stop resource for engineers who need practical information on how to successfully design and assemble flexbile circuitry, it includes detailed discussion of the relationship between design variations and overall cost..
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