Preface
Unit 1 Electronics: Analog and Digital
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Part Ⅰ: Ideal Operational Amplifiers and Practical Limitations
Part Ⅱ: Data Registers and Counters
Part Ⅲ: Nature of Phase Lock
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings: Bridging the Gap between the Analog and Digital Worlds
Exercises
Unit 2 Integrated Circuits
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Part Ⅰ: The Integrated Circuit
Part Ⅱ: Application Specific Integrated Circuit
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings
1. Integrated Circuits: the Past and the Future
2. A Top-Down Approach to IC Design
Exercises
Unit 3 EM Fields, Antenna and Microwaves
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Part Ⅰ: Electromagnetic Field
Part Ⅱ: Microstrip Antenna
Part Ⅲ: Microwaves
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings: What Are Microwaves?
Exercises
Unit 4 Communication and Information Theory
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Part Ⅰ: Telecommunication
Part Ⅱ: Data Transmission
Part Ⅲ: Information Theory
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings
1. Telephone
2. Radio and Television
3. The Internet
Exercises
Unit 5 Multiple Access Techniques
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Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings: Wavelength-Division Multiplexing
Exercises
Unit 6 Mobile Communications
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Part Ⅰ: Mobile Communications
Part Ⅱ: Third Generation Wireless Networks
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings: Beyond 3G
Exercises
Unit 7 Satellite Communications
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Part Ⅰ: Applications of Communications Satellite
Part Ⅱ: Satellite Intemet Access
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings: History of Communications Satellite
Exercises
Unit 8 Optical Communications
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Part Ⅰ: Electromagnetic Spectrum
Part Ⅱ: Optical Fiber
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings: Optical Systems
Exercises
Unit 9 Digital Signals and Signal Processing
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Part Ⅰ: Digital Signal Processing
Part Ⅱ: General Concepts of Digital Signal Processing
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings: Designing Digital Filters
Exercises
Unit 10 Digital Audio Compression
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Part Ⅰ: MPEG Audio Layer 3
Part Ⅱ: Digital Audio Compression Standard AC3
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings: Audio Compression Algorithm Overview
Exercises
Unit 11 Dig
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Part Ⅰ: Two-Dimensional Digital Images
Part Ⅱ: Digital Images -- Definition and Applications
Part Ⅲ: Introduction to Image Processing
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings
1. Medical Image Processing
2. Video Surveillance: Challenge and Solutions
3. Digital Video to Come Alive
Exercises
Unit 12 Biometrics Technology
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Part Ⅰ: Fingerprint Identification
Part Ⅱ: Introduction to Speaker Identification
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings: Biometrics Overview
Exercises
Unit 13 Information Security
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Part Ⅰ: Information Security - Introduction and a Brief History
Part Ⅱ: Basic Principles of Information Security
Part Ⅲ: Intrusion Detection System
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings: Hidden Communication
Exercises
Unit 14 Telemedicine and Biomedical Signal Processing
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Part Ⅰ: Telemedicine
Part Ⅱ: Computerized Tomographic Imaging
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings: Biomedical Signal Processing
Exercises
Unit 15 Remote Sensing
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Part Ⅰ: An Overview of Remote Sensing
Part Ⅱ: Using Remote Sensing to Monitor Global Change
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Notes on the Text Text
Part Ⅰ: Take Care of Your Computer
Part Ⅱ: Computer Buying Guide - PC vs. Macintosh
Part Ⅲ: Object-Oriented Programming Languages
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings
1. Parallel Processing
2. High Performance Computers
Exercises
Unit 17 Computers and Networks
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Part Ⅰ: Evolution of Computers
Part Ⅱ: Local Area Networks
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings
1. The Information Based Society
2. Google Unveils’Universal Search
Exercises
Unit 18 Iuternet and Multimedia
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Part Ⅰ: Multimedia
Part Ⅱ: Networks in Multimedia Applications
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings: Impacts of the Internet
Exercises
Unit 19 Artificial Intelligence
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Part Ⅰ: What Is Artificial Intelligence
Part Ⅱ: Approaches of AI
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings: History of Artificial Intelligence
Exercises
Unit 20 Human Errors and System Design
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Part Ⅰ: Learning from Disasters
Part Ⅱ: The Lessons of Human Errors
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Appendix II. Writing Technical English
1. Writing in Plain English
2. Examples of Diseased English and the Cure
Appendix III. Avoid Pidgin English
1. Avoid Influence of Mother Tongue on Technical English Writing
2. Examples of Chinese English in Technical Writing
Appendix IV. How to Write Abstract
1. Types of Abstract
2. Length of Abstract
3. Styles
Bibliography