159 results found for ED Bookstore, displaying items 1 - 20
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
June 2, 2008
Professional C# 2008
Microsoft Windows remains the dominant development platform in most environments, and C# is the language of choice for Microsoft and developers using this platform. It is comparable to Java in functionality so if you are not using Java in the enterprise then you are probably using C#.
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William Wong
June 2, 2008
Professional Xen Virtualization
Virtualization is hot and Xen is one of the virtual machine managers (VMM), or hypervisors, that target the x86 platform. Xen is an open-source project, so it is readily available on the Internet and it is bundled with most current Linux distributions for platforms that support virtualization. Xen is tightly linked to Linux as is KVM, another VMM that is now part of Linux.
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William Wong
June 2, 2008
Step-By-Step Functional Verification With SystemVerilog And OVM
The industry’s first book covering the Open Verification Methodology (OVM), titled “Step-by-Step Functional Verification with SystemVerilog and OVM,” provides a complete reference to adopting the OVM for functional verification. Written by Dr. Sasan Iman, a principal with SiMantis Inc., the book is being promoted by Cadence and Mentor on the OVM World Web site (www.ovmworld.org) to help the OVM community better understand and use the popular methodology.
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David Maliniak
March 26, 2008
Industrial Networking Texts: Two Selections
Read up on Communications/Test Editor Louis Frenzel's reviews and recommendations on two reference guides from the industiral networking industry. Industrial Ethernet, 2nd Ed., by P.S. Marshall and J.S. Rinaldi introduces how Ethernet carries the TCP/IP protocol suite, and there is also coverage on Ethernet hardware. The second book, Industrial Data Communications, 4th Ed., by L.M. Thompson, covers a rainbow of topics within the serial-data communications field.
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Louis E. Frenzel
March 18, 2008
Hacking: The Art of Exploitation
Any book that numbers its chapters in hexadecimal can’t be that bad. Actually the book is quite good. It should prove invaluable to any except those already well versed in the art of exploitation. It can be especially useful to also any C/C++ programmer that wants to avoid problems or at least make it harder for someone to attack their application.
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William Wong
March 11, 2008
Embedded Hardware: Know it all
Overall, the book was a nice reminder of all the topics and techniques needed by an embedded designer especially when dealing with both hardware and software. The target is definitely on the hardware side but it does not over look the software aspects or board design issues.
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William Wong
March 5, 2008
Programming in Scala: A Comprehensive Step-By-Step Guide
I especially liked the treatment of implementations specific to Scala such as traits, mixins, and actors. These are features that are found in other languages, but Scala implementers did a bit of cherry-picking so Scala has a host of godparents. The book does a good job of covering not only the how but what and why as well. This is important if you expect to get the most out of Scala without a good bit of experimentation and exploration.
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William Wong
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