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  • The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies

    Series series Routledge Companions to Hispanic and Latin American Studies
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    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are expected to promote new applications for the ambulatory health monitoring of chronic patients and elderly population, aiming to improve their quality of life and independence. These networks are composed by wireless sensor nodes (WSNs) used for measuring physiological variables (e.g., glucose level in blood or body temperature) or controlling therapeutic ... Read more

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  • Device-Level Modeling and Synthesis of High-Performance Pipeline ADCs

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book presents models and procedures to design pipeline analog-to-digital converters, compensating for device inaccuracies, so that high-performance specs can be met within short design cycles. These models are capable of capturing and predicting the behavior of pipeline data converters within less than half-a-bit deviation, versus transistor-level simulations. As a result, far fewer model ... Read more

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