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- Battle of the Bluetooth Books
- New and Notable
"Programming and Customizing the AVR Microcontroller," "Silicon
VLSI Technology: Fundamentals, Practice, and Modeling," "Advanced
Techniques for Digital Receivers," "Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth
Will Revolutionize Our World," and "Digital Communications (Fourth
Edition)"
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- Electrical Engineering Bestsellers
"SONET (Second Edition)," "Computer Telephony Encyclopedia," "The
Design of Everyday Things," "The Last Mile: Broadband and the
Next Internet Revolution," and "WCDMA for UMTS"
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BATTLE OF THE BLUETOOTH BOOKS
The first two books on the new Bluetooth standard are out, and the battle
of the publishing giants has begun. McGraw-Hill was first out of the gate
with "Bluetooth Demystified," and two weeks later Prentice Hall weighed
in with "Bluetooth Revealed." Early Amazon.com customer comments on the
two have been wildly divergent (some in the industry suspect the rival publishers
of "seeding" the comments), and sales for both have been strong.
"Bluetooth Demystified"
Nathan J. Muller
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 "Bluetooth
Revealed":
by Brent Miller, Chatschik Bisdikian
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NEW AND NOTABLE
 "Programming
and Customizing the AVR Microcontroller"
by Dhananjay V. Gadre
This reader-friendly guide shows engineers how to take charge of the newest,
most versatile microcontrollers around, Atmel's AVR RISC chip family. Electronics
World writer Dhananjay Gadre walks you from first meeting these exciting
new computers-on-a-chip all the way through design and ready-to-launch projects.
A customer from Wales says, "I didn't realize that there were so many different
ways that chips could 'talk' to each other. There's CAN that's used in cars
and USB to talk to PCs. These different communication interfaces mean that
microcontrollers could be used in robots or home control amongst many other
things (for example, you could get a microcontroller to turn down the TV
volume when the phone rings). It seems really amazing that all these things
are possible, and this book has shed light on these possibilities which
I never knew existed." Read
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 "Silicon
VLSI Technology: Fundamentals, Practice, and Modeling"
by James D. Plummer, Michael D. Deal, and Peter G. Griffin
It sometimes seems that the chip industry moves so rapidly and new products
are introduced so often that there is little time to worry about the scientific
basis of the technologies used to build these chips. In this major book,
three well-known authors describe not only the manufacturing practice
associated with the technologies used in silicon chip fabrication, but
also the underlying scientific basis for those technologies. Models are
discussed in the context of computer simulation programs that incorporate
and use them to simulate the progress of technology. Read
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 "Advanced
Techniques for Digital Receivers"
by Phillip E. Pace
This new book from Naval Postgraduate School professor Phillip Pace is
the first to examine the use of electro-optic architectures and high-resolution
encoding techniques that directly digitize wideband signals in a digital
receiver. Emphasizing GPS, satellite, electronic warfare, radar, and ultrawideband
radar receivers, this book is essential for digital receiver, signal converter,
and digital antenna design engineers and others interested in the application
of electro-optics and superconductivity to the signal conversion problem.
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 "Telecosm:
How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World"
By George Gilder
Already a bestseller, this provocative new book by futurist George Gilder
says that the computer age is over, giving birth to the age of the telecosm--the
world enabled and defined by new communications technology. Equal parts
science story, business history, social analysis, and prediction, it is
the one book you need to make sense of the titanic changes underway in
our lives. Whether you surf the Net constantly or not at all, whether
you live on your cell phone or hate it for its invasion of private life,
you need this book. And we bet you won't stop talking about it! Read
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 "Digital
Communications (Fourth Edition)"
by John G. Proakis
Known as the bible in the ever-changing area of digital communications,
this new edition of a classic is as dense, infuriating, and comprehensive
as ever. (One Amazon.com customer says it "will make a good reference...
in hell!") While the publisher positions it as a senior or graduate level
text, it is particularly useful for engineers already working in the field--and
they had better know their math! Read
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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING BESTSELLERS
 "SONET
(Second Edition)"
by Walter J. Goralski
In today's largest industries, from aircraft to telephone and cable, transporting
voice, data, video, and the Internet through fiber optics is increasing,
making the demand for high-speed SONET technology higher than ever. In this
new edition of one of our all-time best-selling engineering books, SONET
expert Walter Goralski helps you understand the nuts and bolts of the technology
behind SONET and provides you with the field-tested techniques to achieve
greater bandwidth. Read
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 "Computer
Telephony Encyclopedia"
by Richard Grigonis
Computer telephony, the integration of telephone systems with computers
and data networks, has been a much-hyped area with not a lot of substance
in its supporting printed materials. This superb reference from Richard
Grigonis, a protégé of Harry Newton (of "Newton's
Telecom Dictionary"), is an exception. It covers a wide swath of technology
and applications, including voice over IP, DSL, and videoconferencing,
as well as such esoteric fare as E&M signaling and session initiation
protocol. An Amazon.com customer from Brooklyn, New York, calls it "the
best reference in the industry." Read
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 "The
Design of Everyday Things"
by Donald A. Norman
Anyone who designs anything to be used by humans--from physical objects
to computer programs to conceptual tools--should read this classic book,
(and it is an equally important read for anyone who has to use anything
created by another human). An Amazon.com customer from Morocco calls it
"the ultimate vehicle for translating usability design issues into everyday
experiences. Once reading this book, one is no longer able to ignore the
ergonomic, conceptual, and structural design flaws of everything from
doors to complex information system interfaces." Read
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 "The
Last Mile: Broadband and the Next Internet Revolution"
by Jason Wolf and Natalie Zee
Finally, here's a book that business strategists can read and buy for
their staffs about how broadband works and will transform our lives. Amazon.com
Top 10 Reviewer Donald W. Mitchell says, "This book is aimed at the business
executive and small business owner with no current knowledge of broadband,
and assumes no technical background in Internet technology. The book focuses
on explaining the terminology of broadband, the trends involved, their
business communications and product implications, and how Web-based businesses
may be affected." And an Amazon.com customer from Vail, Colorado, calls
it "a great read!" Read
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 "WCDMA
For UMTS: Radio Access for Third Generation Mobile Communication"
edited by Harri Holma and Antti Toskala
Already wildly popular in France and Finland, this is the first book out
on wideband code division multiple access, the interface technology selected
by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute. An Amazon.com
customer from the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich says, "It
certainly helps you save valuable time in getting up-to-date information
about one of the hottest telecommunication applications nowadays. Read
this book and you will understand the UMTS standard." Read
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