December 10, 2008
RF Measurements For Cellular Phones And Wireless Data Systems
The title accurately tells what this book is about, but there is so much content here I do not know where to start. Essentially the book is about how to test and measure the wide range of wireless gear now being developed with an emphasis on cellular equipment. It is pretty rare to find a book on this subject and especially one that is reasonably up to date. Well, I’ve found one.
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Louis E. Frenzel
December 2, 2008
Mobile Antenna Systems Handbook, 3rd Ed.
As any experienced wireless engineer knows, the antenna is an extremely important part of the system. And in this fast-changing field of wireless, new antenna forms and approaches are coming faster than in the past. It is important to know the latest technologies to give your product the edge. This book may be what you are looking for.
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Louis E. Frenzel
November 19, 2008
Networking, 2nd Edition
I usually do not review textbooks but this one grabbed my attention. It is a generic college textbook on all aspects of networking.
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Louis E. Frenzel
November 4, 2008
The Art Of Debugging With GDB, DDD And Eclipse
Most developers use only one debugger but it is quite handy to know about others. Likewise, you might want to consider a move from gdb to Eclipse or vice-versa depending upon the platform you might be debugging. This book provides an excellent contrast between each by showing how to perform the same function in each environment.
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William Wong
October 17, 2008
MOST: The Automotive Multimedia Network
The book is a collection of articles about MOST and its architecture and implementation. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field and the chapters work surprisingly well with each other—providing excellent depth and technical details while being a relatively easy read for anyone with networking background.
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William Wong
October 7, 2008
Computers As Components: Principles Of Embedded Computing Design
The title is a bit of misnomer, as author Wayne Wolf is really presenting a typical embedded design and programming book. There is little about connecting CPU components together in anything other than a basic network. Still, skipping over the naming of the book reveals a very good coverage of general embedded processors and system design. Overall, this is an excellent book for a college course or for new embedded designers.
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William Wong
September 30, 2008
iPhone Open Application Development
Apple’s iPhone is extremely popular and its recent improvements—with respect to developers—have been greatly appreciated. Still, there are restrictions that some would rather do without, hence Zdziarski’s offering. It’s based around support found on the iPhone Dev Team (wikee.iphwn.org) site that provides applications and APIs that can be used without obtaining the Apple software development kit (SDK). This book covers these APIs and presents sample applications built on this platform.
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William Wong
September 23, 2008
Professional Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio
If you are looking for the tome that reveals all with respect to Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (MRDS) then this is it. At over 800 pages, there is little that this book does not cover in depth. The book is divided into four sections: Robotics Developer Studio Fundamentals, Simulations, Visual Programming Language, and Robotics Hardware.
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William Wong
September 11, 2008
FIRST LEGO League: The Unofficial Guide
If you have not heard about FIRST or the FIRST LEGO League competition, or someone just dropped the idea on you, this is the book for you. Even if you have no clue what LEGO Mindstorms, robotics, or FIRST are, this book will explain it all to you. Even those already involved will be able to pick up a tip or two.
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William Wong
August 12, 2008
Professional Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (MRDS) is Microsoft’s answer to the rise in interest of robots. MRDS is a major commitment by Microsoft and a big chunk of software—although the large portion (over 800 pages) of the book reflects the complexity that MRDS brings to the table.
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William Wong
August 12, 2008
Lessons Learned From A Lean Consultant
Want some insights into “lean” manufacturing? Want to learn from the mistakes made when companies failed in their quest for more efficient manufacturing? Then this is the right book to read.
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Roger Allan
August 1, 2008
Maxwell's Equations For Dummies?
One of the perks of being an Electronic Design editor is that we get lots of books that publishers would like us to review. The last time I went through the stack, A Student’s Guide to Maxwell’s Equations by Daniel Fleisch caught my eye. I settled down in the nearest chair and started to skim. Then I slowed down and started to read. Professor Fleisch is a great scientific communicator.
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Don Tuite
July 14, 2008
BGA Breakouts & Routing
Call it a “vanity” publishing project if you will, but Charles Pfeil’s book, BGA Breakouts & Routing, published by his employer, Mentor Graphics, is more than worth the price of admission. Pfeil, who is the engineering director of Mentor’s System Design Division, is an acknowledged industry expert in the black art of printed-circuit board (PCB) routing, and he brings his expertise to bear on this densely-packed and richly-illustrated volume.
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David Maliniak
July 7, 2008
Broadband Wireless Access And Local Networks: Mobile WiMAX and Wi-Fi Broadband Wireless Access And Local Networks: Mobile WiMAX and Wi-Fi is a brand new book published by Artech House. A long time publisher of wireless and related books, Artech is doing a great job of finding authors with the latest knowledge on wireless topics, and quickly getting books into the hands of those who need them. Overall, this book is a recommended reference book if you are working with these standards.
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Louis E. Frenzel
July 7, 2008
Antenna Engineering Handbook, 4th Edition
I will be straight with you and say I have no idea how to write a review of a book like this. It does indeed fit the definition of the word “tome,” but I mean that in the best possible way. If you are looking for a master reference on antennas, this is certainly a great one. You will not be disappointed.
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Louis E. Frenzel
June 16, 2008
Inside Steve’s Brain
Each chapter of “Inside Steve’s Brain” explores a different facet of what’s made Jobs and Apple (not to mention Pixar) so successful: organizational genius, perfectionism, elitism, despotism, passion, inventiveness. It also looks at some of the traits that have made him a legend in Silicon Valley.
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David Maliniak
June 11, 2008
Linear Circuit Design Handbook
What Zumbahlen did here is basically give order to all those ADI app notes and technical articles. He also tagged related ideas to such content in a coherent sequence. If you need to know something with this kind of treeware, you can be your own search engine using the table of contents and index in the rear of the book. Or of course you can skim for the stuff you don’t already know.
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Don Tuite
In Jack Ganssle’s anthology, Embedded Systems: World Class Design, he has collected over a dozen articles that span the embedded system design spectrum. Ganssle’s compilation touches on motors, testing, system level design, sensors, actuators and controls, version control systems, state machines, firmware/hardware musings, close loop control, video encoding, analog I/O, optimizing DSP software, and embedded processors.
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William Wong
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