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ADRIANO PEDRO RODRIGUESID: UB18207SSO26040 COURSE TITLE: ELECTRONIC ENGINEERINGIndexIntroduction……………………………………………………………………………….pag. 51.- Electronic engineering….…………………………………………………………..pag. 6 1.1-History of electronic engineering.………………………………………………pag. 6 1.2-The vacuum tube detector……………………….…………………………………pag. 7 1.3-History of computing hardware………..…………………………………………pag. 7 1.4-Desktop calculators..……………………………………………………………………pag. 91.5-Digital computation..………………………………………………………………………pag. 9 1.6-Comercial computers…………….………………………………………………………pag.11 1.7-Microprocessors…………….………………………………………………..…………..pag.121.8-Electromagnetism & photoelectric effect..….……………………………….pag.131.8.1-History………………..………………………………………………………………….……pag.131.8.2- Classical electromagnetism…………………………………………………………pag.141.8.3-Electromagnetic waves…………………………………………………..……………pag.141.8.4-Introduction and early historical view……………………………………..……pag.141.8.5-Traditional explanation……….…………………………………………….……….…pag.151.8.6-Stoletov: The first law of photoeffect…….…………………………..…………pag.151.8.7-Einstein: light quanta…………………………………………………..…………………pag.16 1.8.8-Uses and effects……………….……………………………..……………………………pag.16 1.8.9-Photoelectron spectroscopy..……………………………………………..…………pag.16 1.8.10-Cross section…………………………….…………………………………………………pag.17 1.8.11-Electromagnetism units……………………………………………………….………pag.17 1.8.12-Electromagnetic phenomena…………………………………………….…………pag.17 1.8.13-Electronic devices and circuits………………………………….………………….pag.171.8.14-Analog circuits……………………………………………………………………………………pag.171.8.15-Digital circuits…………………………………………………………………………………….pag.182.-Signal processing telecommunications engineering & control engineering pg.182.1-Signal processing…………………………………………………………………..………………..pag.182.2-Categories of signal processing………………………………………………..……………..pag.182.3-Telecommunications engineering……………………………………………………………pag.192.4-Telecom equipment engineer…………………………………………………………………pag.192.5-Control engineering……………………………………………………………………..…………pag.192.6-Instrumentation engineering & Computer engineering………………..…………pag.202.7-Computer systems engineering…………………………………………………….………..pag.212.8-Algorithm………………………………………………………………………………..……………..pag.212.9-Formalization………………………………………………………….……………………………..pag.212.10-Expressing algorithms……………………………………………………………..…………..pag.222.11-Computer algorithm………………………………………………………………….…………pag.222.12-Algorithm analysis…………………………………………………………………..……………pag.222.13-Manipulation of symbols………………………………………………………..…….………pag.242.14-Mathematics during the 1800s up to the mid- 1900s……………………………pag.242.15-Design methods…………………………………………………………………….……………..pag.252.16-Electrical laws…………………………………………………………….…………………………pag.252.17-Database………………………………………………………………………………………………pag.252.18-Database management system………………………………………………………..……pag.252.19-Applications of databases……………………………………………………………….…….pag.262.20-Digital electronic…………………………………………………………………………………..pag.272.21-Advantages…………………………………………………………………………………..………pag.272.22-Disadvantages……………………………………………………………………………………….pag.272.23-Analog issues in digital circuits………………………………………………………………pag.272.24-Struture of digital system……………………………………………………………..……….pag.282.25-Design of testability……………………………………………………………………………….pag.292.26-Logic families…………………………………………………………………………………………pag.292.27-Embebed systems…………………………………………………………………….……………pag.302.28-CPU platforms……………………………………………………………………..…………………pag.302.29-Debugging…………………………………………………………………………………….………..pag.313.Applications and basic principles of absorbers……………………………………..…..pag.323.1-Reverberation control……………………………………………………………………………….pag.323.2-Echo control in auditoria and lecture theatres……………………………………….….pag.343.3-Impedance, admittance, reflection coefficient and absorption……………….…pag.343.4-Natural noise control…………………………………………………………………………………pag.353.5-Loudspeaker cabinet………………………………………………………………………………….pag.353.6-Echo control in auditoria……………………………………………………………………………pag.363.7-Wavefronts and diffusers reflections…………………………………………………………pag.363.8-Burring the focusing from concave surfaces………………………………………………pag.373.9-Measurements of absorbers properties…………………………………………….……pag.373.9.1-Porous absoption……………………………………………………………………………………pag.383.9.2-Resonant absorbrs………………………………………………………………………….………pag.383.9.3-Helmholtz resonator…………………………………………………………………………….…pag.393.9.4-Active absorption in tree dimensions………………………………………………………pag.403.9.5-Active diffusers………………………………………………………………………………..………pag.403.9.6-Controllers……………………………………………………………………………………………….pag.414.-Acoustic: an introduction………………………………………………..…………………………pag.414.1-Geometric room acoustic……………………………………………………………………………pag.414.2-Diffuse sound field………………………………………………………………………………………pag.424.3-Energy density and reverberation……………………………………………………………….pag.434.4-Electroacoustic transducers………………………………………………………………….……pag.444.5-Piezoelectric transducer…………………………………………………………………….………pag.444.6-Electrostatic transducer…………………………………………………………………………….pag.454.7-Magnetic transducer……………………………………………………………………………….…pag.454.8-Microphones………………………………………………………………………………………………pag.454.9-Condeser microphones………………………………………………………………………………pag.464.10-Piezoelectric microphones………………………………………………………………..………pag.464.11-Dynamic microphones………………………………………………………………………………pag.464.12-Carbone microphones……………………………………………………………………………..pag.474.13-Hidrophones…………………………………………………………………………………………….pag.474.14-Loudspeaker and other electroacoustic sound sources………………………….pag.474.14.1-Dynamic loudspeaker…………………………………………………………………….………pag.474.14.2-Electrostatic or condenser loudspeaker…………………………………………….…..pag.474.14.3-Magnetic loudspeaker……………………………………………………………………………pag.474.14.4-The closed loudspeaker cabinet……………………………………………………………..pag.474.14.5-The bass-reflex cabinet………………………………………………………………………..…pag.484.14.6-Horn loudspeaker…………………………………………………………………………..………pag.484.14.7-Loudspeaker directivity………………………………………………………………..…………pag.485.General analysis………………………………………………………………………………………………pag.496.Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………………………………pag.507.Bibliography……………………………………………………………………………………………………pag.51INTRODUCTIONElectronic Engineering, Is an engineering discipline which uses the scientific knowledge of the behavior and effects of electrons to develop components, devices, systems, or equipment (as in electron tubes, transistors, integrated circuits, and printed circuit boards) that uses electricity as part of its driving force .In our work on electronic engineering, we present our acquired knowledge by making mention of the themes and issues that we find extremely important and is essential in the evaluation show that the job can have.Apart from the historical aspects of temperament various topics are also addressed issues relating to the development of new technologies as well as formulas and calculations that contributed to the development and certification of these technologies.We all know how important the role that engineering electro / electronics has played in our daily lives to the point of being present in almost all branches of human activity, primarily in the communications, information and production.In this work, special attention is given to topics that address issues and knowledge that relate to the chosen course (sound engineering) that because it is a very comprehensive is sustained mainly by electronics, construction, innovation, sensitivity etc.The use and development of new technologies is making life easier for itms that are linked to communication and media events in general.Now! in this case, the sound is something that accompanies us throughout our life, since the alarm clock that wakes us in the morning, to noticeable various sounds that surround us and that we transmit sound images of what surrounds us and which relates with all human activity.There are countries where we can hardly feel in calm environments, as human activity and not only cause stress and consequently health problems to the population.Adriano Pedro Rodrigues 2013-01-21 ENGINEERINGElectronic Engineering, is an engineering discipline which uses the scientific knowledge of the behavior and effects of electrons to develop components, devices, systems, or equipment (as in electron tubes, transistors, integrated circuits, and printed circuit boards) that uses electrictity as part of its driving force.That encompasses many subfields including those that deal with power, instrumentation engineering, telecommunications, and semiconductor circuit design amongst many others.The name electrical engineering is still used to cover electronic engineering amongst some of the older (notably American) universities and graduates there are called electrical engineers. The distinction between electronic and electrical engineers is becoming moreand more distinct. While electrical engineers utilize voltage and current to deliver power, electronic engineers utilize voltage and current to deliver information through information technology.1.1 History of ElectronicEngineeringElectronic engineering as a profession sprang from technological improvements in the telegraph industry in the late 1800s and the radio and the telephone industries in the early 1900s. People were attracted to radio by the technical fascination it inspired, first in receiving and then in transmitting.In 1948, came the transistor and in 1960, the IC to revolutionize the electronic industry. In the UK, the subject of electronic engineering became distinct from electrical engineering as a university degree subject around 1960.Early electronics1896 Marconi patenteIn 1893, Nikola Tesla made the first public demonstration of radio communication.The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia and the National Electric Light Association, he described and demonstrated in detail the principles of radio communication. In 1896, Guglielmo Marconi went on to develop a practical and widely used radio system. In 1904, John Ambrose Fleming, the first professor of electrical Engineering at University College London, invented the first radio tube, the diode.In 1906, Robert von Lieben and Lee De Forest independently developed the amplifier tube, called the triode.Vacuum tubes remained the preferred amplifying device for 40 years, until researchers working for William Shockley at Bell Labs invented the transistor in 1947. In the following years, transistors made small portable radios, or transistor radios, possible as well as allowing more powerful mainframe computers to be built. Transistors were smaller and required lower voltages than vacuum tubes to work.The terms 'wireless' and 'radio' were then used to refer to anything electronic.Before the invention of the integrated circuit in 1959, electronic circuits were constructed from discrete components that could be manipulated by hand. Non-integrated circuits consumed much space and power, were prone to failure and were limited in speed although they are still common in simple applications. By contrast, integrated circuits packed a large number — often millions — of tiny electrical components, mainly transistors, into a small chip around the size of a coin.1.2 The vacuum tube detectorThe invention of the triode amplifier, generator, and detector made audio communication by radio practical. Through the mid 1920s the most common type of receiver was the crystal set. In the 1920s, amplifying vacuum tubes revolutionized both radio receivers and transmitters.In 1928 Philo Farnsworth made the first public demonstration of purely electronic television.One of the latest and most advance technologies in TV screens/displays has to do entirely with electronics principles, and it’s the OLED (organic light emitting diode) displays, and it’s most likely to replace LCD and Plasma technologies.During World War II many efforts were expended in the electronic location of enemy targets and aircraft. These included radio beam guidance of bombers, electronic counter measures, early radar systems etc. During this time very little if any effort was expended on consumer electronics developments.1.3 History of computing hardwareThe elements of computing hardware have undergone significant improvement over their history. This improvement has triggered worldwide use of the technology, performance has improved and the price has declined. Computers are accessible to ever-increasing sectors of the world's population. Computing hardware has become a platform for uses other than computation, such as automation, communication, control, entertainment, and education.The von Neumann architecture unifies current computing hardware implementations. The history of computer data storage is tied to the development of computers. The major elements of computing hardware implement abstractions: input, output, memory, and processor. A processor is composed of control and datapath. In thevon Neumann architecture, control of the datapath is stored in memory. This allowed control to become an automatic process; the datapath could be under software control, perhaps in response to events.Analog computers have used lengths, pressures, voltages, and currents to represent the results of calculations. Eventually the voltages or currents were standardized, and then digitized. Digital computing elements have ranged from mechanical gears, to electromechanical relays, to vacuum tubes, to transistors, and to integrated circuits, all of which are currently implementing the von Neumann architecture.The "castle clock", an astronomical clock invented by Al-Jazari in 1206, is considered to be the earliest programmable analog computer.Yazu Arithmometer. Patented in Japan in 1903. Note the lever for turning the gears of the calculator.German polymath Wilhelm Schickard built the first digital mechanical calculator in 1623, and thus became the father of the computing era.Leibniz also described the binary numeral system, a central ingredient of all modern computers. However, up to the 1940s, many subsequent designs (including Charles Babbage's machines of the 1800s and even ENIAC of 1945) were based on the decimal system; Yazu Arithmometer in 1903. It consisted of a single cylinder and 22 gears, and employed the mixed base-2 and base-5 number system familiar to users to the soroban (Japanese abacus).In 1835, Babbage described his analytical engine. It was the plan of a general-purpose programmable computer, employing punch cards for input and a steam engine for power.IBM 407 tabulating machine, (1961)A reconstruction of the Difference Engine II, an earlier, more limited design, has been operational since 1991 at the London Science Museum. With a few trivial changes, it works as Babbage designed it and shows that Babbage was right in theory.Hollerith's company eventually became the core of IBM. IBM developed punch card technology into a powerful tool for business data- rocessing and produced an extensive line of unit record equipment. By 1950, the IBM card had become ubiquitous in industry and government.The Thomas J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau, Columbia University performed astronomical calculations representing the state of the art in computing.The computer users, for example, science and engineering students at universities, would submit their programming assignments to their local computer center in the form of a stack of cards, one card per program line.Punched cards are still used and manufactured to this day, and their distinctive dimensions (and 80-column capacity) can still be recognized in forms, records, and programs around the world.1.4 Desktop calculatorsCompanies like Friden, Marchant Calculator and Monroe made desktop mechanical calculators from the 1930s that could add, subtract, multiply and divide.Over time, during the 1950s and 1960s a variety of different brands of mechanical calculator appeared on the market. The first allelectronicdesktop calculator was the British ANITA Mk.VII, which used a Nixie tube display and 177 subminiature thyratron tubes.Advanced analog computersBefore World War II, mechanical and electrical analog computers were considered the "state of the art", and many thought they were the future of computing.Unlike modern digital computers, analog computers are not very flexible, and need to be reconfigured (i.e., reprogrammed) manually to switch them from working on one problem to another. Analog computers had an advantage over early digital computers in that they could be used to solve complex problems using behavioral analogues while the earliest attempts at digital computers were quite limited.But as digital computers have become faster and use larger memory (for example, RAM or internal storage), they have almost entirely displaced analog computers. 1.5 Digital computationThe era of modern computing began with a flurry of development before and during World War II, as electronic circuit elements replaced mechanical equivalents and digital calculations replaced analog calculations. Machines such as the Z3, the Atanasoff–Berry Computer, the Colossus computers, and the ENIAC were built by hand using circuits containing relays or valves (vacuum tubes), and often used punched cards or punched paper tape for input and as the main (non-volatile) storage medium.For a computing machine to be a practical general-purpose computer, there must be some convenient read-write mechanism, punched tape, for example.Nine-track magnetic tapeFor a computing machine to be a practical general-purpose computer, there must be some convenient read-write mechanism, punched tape, for example.John von Neumann defined an architecture which uses the same memory both to store programs and data: virtually all contemporary computers use this architecture (or some variant). While it is theoretically possible to implement a full computer entirely mechanically (as Babbage's design showed), electronics made possible the speed and later the miniaturization that characterize modern computers.George Stibitz is internationally recognized as one of the fathers of the modern digital computer. While working at Bell Labs in November 1937, Stibitz invented and built a relay-based calculator that he dubbed the "Model K" (for "kitchen table", on which he had assembled it), which was the first to calculate using binary form.The Atanasoff-Berry Computer was the world's first electronic digital computer. The design used over 300 vacuum tubes and employed capacitors fixed in a mechanically rotating drum for memory. Though the ABC machine was not programmable, it was the first to use electronic tubes in an adder.ENIACThe US-built ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first electronic general-purpose computer. It combined, for the first time, the high speed of electronics with the ability to be programmed for many complex problems.The computer MESM (МЭСМ, Small Electronic Calculating Machine) became operational in 1950. It had about 6,000 vacuum tubes and consumed 25 kW of power. It could perform approximately 3,000 operations per second.1.6 Commercial computersIBM introduced a smaller, more affordable computer in 1954 that proved very popular.The IBM 650 weighed over 900 kg, the attached power supply weighed around 1350 kg The first transistorized computer was built at the University of Manchester and was operational by 1953; The bipolar junction transistor (BJT) was invented in 1947. If no electrical current flows through the base-emitter path of a bipolar transistor, the transistor's collector-emitter path blocks electrical current (and the transistor is said to "turn full off"). If sufficient current flows through the base-emitter path of a transistor, that transistor's collector-emitter path also passes current (and the transistor is said to "turn full on"). Current flow or current blockage represent binary 1 (true) or 0 (false), respectively. From 1955 onwards bipolar junction transistors replaced vacuum tubes in computer designs, giving rise to the "second generation" of computers. Compared to vacuum tubes, transistors have many advantages: they are less expensive to manufacture and are much faster, switching from the condition 1 to 0 in millionths or billionths of a second. Transistor volume is measured in cubic millimeters compared to vacuum tubes' cubic centimeters. Transistors' lower operating temperature increased their reliability, compared to vacuum tubes.Transistorized computers could contain tens of thousands of binary logic circuits in a relatively compact space.Transistors greatly reduced computers' size, initial cost, and operating cost.Typically, second-generation computers were composed of large numbers of printed circuit boards such as the IBM Standard Modular System each carrying one to four logic gates or flip-flops.RAMAC DASDThe second generation disk data storage units were able to store tens of millions of letters and digits. Multiple Peripherals can be connected to the CPU, increasing the total memory capacity to hundreds of millions of characters.During the second generation remote terminal units (often in the form of teletype machines like a Friden Flexowriter) saw greatly increased use. Telephone connections provided sufficient speed for early remote terminals and allowed hundreds of kilometers separation between remote-terminals and the computing center. Eventually these standalone computer networks would be generalized into an interconnected network of networks—the Internet.Intel 8742 eight-bit microcontroller ICThe explosion in the use of computers began with "third-generation" computers, making use of Jack St. Clair Kilby's and Robert Noyce's independent invention of the integrated circuit (or microchip), which later led to the invention of the microprocessor, by Ted Hoff, Federico Faggin, and Stanley Mazor at Intel.As late as 1975, Sperry Univac continued the manufacture of second-generation machines such as the UNIVAC 494. The Burroughs large systems such as the B5000 were stack machines, which allowed for simpler programming. These pushdown automatons were also implemented in minicomputers and microprocessors later, which influenced programming language design.Minicomputers served as low-cost computer centers for industry, business and universities.Microcomputers, the first of which appeared in the 1970s, became ubiquitous in the 1980s and beyond. Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, is credited with developing the first mass-market home computers.In the twenty-first century, multi-core CPUs became commercially available.When the CMOS field effect transistor-based logic gates supplanted bipolar transistors, computer power consumption could decrease dramatically (A CMOS Field-effect transistor only draws significant current during the 'transition' between logic states, unlike the substantially higher (and continuous) bias current draw of a BJT). This has allowed computing to become a commodity which is now ubiquitous, embedded in many forms, from greeting cards and telephones to satellites.The arithmetic performance of these machines allowed engineers to develop completely new technologies and achieve new objectives. Early examples include the Apollo missions and the NASA moon landing.The invention of the transistor in 1947 by William B. Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain opened the door for more compact devices and led to the development of the integrated circuit in 1959 by Jack Kilby.1.7 MicroprocessorsThe first PC was announced to the general public on the cover of the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics.In the field of electronic engineering, engineers design and test circuits that use the electromagnetic properties of electrical components such as resistors, capacitors, inductors, diodes and transistors to achieve a particular functionality. The tuner circuit,which allows the user of a radio to filter out all but a single station, is just one example of such a circuit.In designing an integrated circuit, electronics engineers first construct circuit schematics that specify the electrical components and describe the interconnections between them.Integrated circuits and other electrical components can then be assembled on printed circuit boards to form more complicated circuits. Today, printed circuit boards are found in most electronic devices including televisions, computers and audio players.1.8 Electromagnetism & Photoelectric EffectElectromagnetism is the physics of the electromagnetic field, a field that exerts a force on particles with the property of electric charge and is reciprocally affected by the presence and motion of such particles.A changing magnetic field produces an electric field (this is the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction, the basis of operation for electrical generators, induction motors, and transformers). Similarly, a changing electric field generates a magnetic field.The magnetic field is produced by the motion of electric charges, i.e., electric current.The magnetic field causes the magnetic force associated with magnets.The theoretical implications of electromagnetism led to the development of special relativity by Albert Einstein in 1905; and from this it was shown that magnetic fields and electric fields are convertible with relative motion as a four vector and this led to their unification as electromagnetism.1.8.1 HistoryWhile preparing for an evening lecture on 21 April 1820, Hans Christian ?rsted developed an experiment that provided surprising evidence. As he was setting up his materials, he noticed a compass needle deflected from magnetic north when the electric current from the battery he was using was switched on and off. This deflection convinced him that magnetic fields radiate from all sides off of a wire carrying an electric current, just as light and heat do, and that it confirmed a direct relationship between electricity and magnetism.?rsted's discovery also represented a major step toward a unified concept of energy.This unification, which was observed by Michael Faraday, extended by James Clerk Maxwell, and partially reformulated by Oliver Heaviside and Heinrich Hertz, is one of the accomplishments of 19th century Mathematical Physics.Different frequencies of oscillation give rise to the different forms of electromagnetic radiation, from radio waves at the lowest frequencies, to visible light at intermediate frequencies, to gamma rays at the highest frequencies.?rsted was not the only person to examine the relation between electricity and magnetism. In 1802 Gian Domenico Romagnosi, an Italian legal scholar, deflected a magnetic needle by electrostatic charges. Actually, no galvanic current existed in the setup and hence no electromagnetism was present.The force that the electromagnetic field exerts on electrically charged particles, called the electromagnetic force, is one of the fundamental forces. The other fundamental forces are strong nuclear force (which holds atomic nuclei together), the weak nuclear force andthe gravitational force. All other forces are ultimately derived from these fundamental forces.The electromagnetic force is the one responsible for practically all the phenomena encountered in daily life, with the exception of gravity. All the forces involved in interactions between atoms can be traced to the electromagnetic force acting on the electrically charged protons and electrons inside the atoms.It also includes all forms of chemical phenomena, which arise from interactions between electron orbitals.1.8.2 Classical electromagnetismClassical electromagnetism (or classical electrodynamics) is a branch of theoretical physics that studies consequences of the electromagnetic forces between electric charges and currents. It provides an excellent description of electromagnetic phenomena whenever the relevant length scales and field strengths are large enough that quantum mechanical effects are negligible (see quantum electrodynamics).The outstanding problem with classical electrodynamics, as stated by Jackson, is that we are able to obtain and study relevant solutions of its basic equations only in two limiting cases: ?... one in which the sources of charges and currents are specified and the resulting electromagnetic fields are calculated, and the other in which external electromagnetic fields are specified and the motion of charged particles or currents is calculated... Occasionally,the two problems are combined.1.8.3 Electromagnetic wavesA changing electromagnetic field propagates away from its origin in the form of a wave.These waves travel in vacuum at the speed of light and exist in a wide spectrum of wavelengths. Examples of the dynamic fields of electromagnetic radiation (in order of increasing frequency): radio waves, microwaves, light (infrared, visible light and ultraviolet), x-rays and gamma rays. In the field of particle physics this electromagnetic radiation is the manifestation of the electromagnetic interaction between charged particles.Photoelectric effectThe photoelectric effect is a phenomenon in which electrons are emitted from matter (metals and non-metallic solids, liquids, or gases) after the absorption of energy from electromagnetic radiation such as X-rays or visible light. The emitted electrons can be referred to as photoelectrons in this context. The effect is also termed the Hertz Effect.The photoelectric effect takes place with photons with energies from about a few electronvolts to, in some cases, over 1 MeV.1.8.4 Introduction and early historical viewWith James Clerk Maxwell's wave theory of light, which was thought to predict that the electron energy would be proportional to the intensity of the radiation. In 1905, Einstein solved this apparent paradox by describing light as composed of discrete quanta, now called photons, rather than continuous waves.A photon above a threshold frequency has the required energy to eject a single electron, creating the observed effect. This discovery led to the quantum revolution in physics and earned Einstein the Nobel Prize in 1921.1.8.5 Traditional explanationIn the photoemission process, if an electron within some material absorbs the energy of one photon and thus has more energy than the work function (the electron binding energy) of the material, it is ejected. If the photon energy is too low, the electron is unable to escape the material. Increasing the intensity of the light beam increases the number of photons in the light beam, and thus increases the number of electrons emitted, but does not increase the energy that each electron possesses. Thus the energy of the emitted electrons does not depend on the intensity of the incoming light, but only on the energy of the individual photons.According to Einstein's special theory of relativity the relation between energy (E) and momentum (p) of a particle is, where m is the rest mass of the particle and c is the velocity of light in a vacuum.In 1887, Heinrich Hertz observed the photoelectric effect and the production and reception of electromagnetic (EM) waves. His receiver consisted of a coil with a spark gap, where a spark would be seen upon detection of EM waves. He placed the apparatus in a darkened box to see the spark better. However, he noticed that the maximum spark length was reduced when in the box. A glass panel placed between the source of EM waves and the receiver absorbed ultraviolet radiation that assisted the electrons in jumping across the gap. When removed, the spark length would increase. He observed no decrease in spark length when he substituted quartz for glass, as quartz does not absorb UV radiation. Hertz concluded his months of investigation and reported the results obtained.1.8.6Stoletov: the first law of photoeffectStoletov invented a new experimental setup which was more suitable for a quantitative analysis of photoeffect.He discovered the direct proportionality between the intensity of light and the induced photo electric current (the first law of photoeffect or Stoletov's law).He found the existence of an optimal gaspressure Pm corresponding to a maximum photocurrent; this property was used for a creation of solar cells.In 1902, Philipp Lenard observed the variation in electron energy with light frequency.He found the electron energy by relating it to the maximum stopping potential (voltage) in a phototube. He found that the calculated maximum electron kinetic energy is determined by the frequency of the light. For example, an increase in frequency results in an increase in the maximum kinetic energy calculated for an electron upon liberation - ultraviolet radiation would require a higher applied stopping potential to stop current in a phototube than blue light.The current emitted by the surface was determined by the light's intensity, or brightness: doubling the intensity of the light doubled the number of electrons emitted from the surface. Lenard did not know of photons.1.8.7 Einstein: light quantaAssuming that Hertzian oscillators could only exist at energies E proportional to the frequency f of the oscillator by E = hf, where h is Planck's constant.It explained why the energy of photoelectrons were dependent only on the frequency of the incident light and not on its intensity: a low intensity, high-frequency source could supply a few high energy photons, whereas a high intensity, low-frequency source would supply no photons of sufficient individual energy to dislodge any electrons.Einstein's work predicted that the energy of individual ejected electrons increases linearly with the frequency of the light.By 1905 it was known that the energy of photoelectrons increases with increasing frequency of incident light and is independent of the intensity of the light.1.8.8 Uses and effectsThe photocathode contains combinations of materials such as caesium, rubidium and antimony specially selected to provide a low work function, so when illuminated even by very low levels of light, the photocathode readily releases electrons.Photomultipliers are still commonly used wherever low levels of light must be detected.Silicon image sensors, such as charge-coupled devices, widely used for photographic imaging, are based on a variant of the photoelectric effect, in which photons knock electrons out of the valence band of energy states in a semiconductor, but not out of the solid itself.The gold leaf electroscope.The electroscope is an important tool in illustrating the photoelectric effect.shining high-frequency light onto the cap, the scope discharges and the leaf will fall limp.The frequency of the light shining on the cap is above the cap's threshold frequency. The photons in the light have enough energy to liberate electrons from the cap, reducing its negative charge.1.8.9 Photoelectron spectroscopyPhotoelectron spectroscopy is done in a high-vacuum environment, since the electrons would be scattered by significant numbers of gas atoms present (e.g. even in low-pressure air).The photoelectric effect will cause spacecraft exposed to sunlight to develop a positive charge. This can get up to the tens of volts.The static charge created by the photoelectric effect is self-limiting, though, because a more highly-charged object gives up its electrons less easily.1.8.10 Cross sectionThe photoelectric effect is simply an interaction mechanism conducted between photons and atoms. However, this mechanism does not have exclusivity in interactions of this nature and is one of 12 theoretically possible interactions .The probability of the photoelectric effect occurring is measured by the cross section of interaction, σ. This has been found to be a function of the atomic number of the target atom and photon energy. A crude approximation, for photon energies above the highest atomic binding energy, is given by : Where n is a number which varies between 4 and 5.1.8.11Electromagnetic units are part of a system of electrical units based primarily upon the magnetic properties of electric currents, the fundamental SI unit being the ampere. The units are:Ampere (current)Coulomb (charge)Farad (capacitance)Henry (inductance)Ohm (resistance)Volt (electric potential)Watt (power)Tesla (magnetic field)In the electromagnetic system, electrical current is a fundamental quantity defined via Ampère's law and takes the permeability as a dimensionless quantity (relative permeability) whose value in a vacuum is unity.1.8.12 Electromagnetic phenomenaWith the exception of gravitation, electromagnetic phenomena as described by quantum electrodynamics account for almost all physical phenomena observable to the unaided human senses, including light and other electromagnetic radiation, all of chemistry, most of mechanics (excepting gravitation), and of course magnetism and electricity.1.8.13 Electronic devices and circuitsEnergy bands in silicon, intrinsic and extrinsic silicon. Carrier transport in silicon: diffusion current, drift current, mobility, resistivity. Generation and recombination of carriers. p-n junction diode, Zener diode, tunnel diode, BJT, JFET, MOS capacitor, MOSFET, LED, p-i-n and avalanche photo diode, LASERs. Device technology: integrated circuit fabrication process, oxidation, diffusion, ion implantation, photolithography, n-tub, p-tub and twin-tub CMOS process.1.8.14 Analog circuits: Equivalent circuits (large and small-signal) of diodes, BJTs, JFETs, and MOSFETs. Simple diode circuits, clipping, clamping, rectifier. Biasing and bias stability of transistor and FET amplifiers. Amplifiers: single-and multi-stage, differential, operational, feedback and power. Analysis of amplifiers; frequency response of amplifiers. Simple op-amp circuits. Filters. Sinusoidal oscillators; criterion foroscillation; single-transistor and op-amp configurations. Function generators and waveshaping circuits, Power supplies.1.8.15 Digital circuits: of Boolean functions; logic gates digital IC families (DTL, TTL, ECL, MOS, CMOS). Combinational circuits: arithmetic circuits, code converters, multiplexers and decoders. Sequential circuits: latches and flip-flops, counters and shift-registers.Sample and hold circuits, ADCs, DACs. Semiconductor memories. Microprocessor 8086: architecture, programming, memory and I/O interfacing.2. Signal processing, TelecommunicationsEngineering & Control engineeringIt deals with the analysis and manipulation of signals. Signals can be either analog, in which case the signal varies continuously according to the information, or digital, in which case the signal varies according to a series of discrete values representing the information.2.1Signal processing is an area of applied mathematics that deals with operations on or analysis of signals, in either discrete or continuous time to perform useful operations on those signals. Depending upon the application, a useful operation could be control, data compression, data transmission, denoising, prediction, filtering, smoothing, deblurring, tomographic reconstruction, identification, classification, or a variety of other operations.Signals of interest can include sound, images, time-varying measurement values and sensor data, for example biological data such as electrocardiograms, control system signals, telecommunication transmission signals such as radio signals, and many others.2.2 Categories of signal processing Analog signal processing — for signals that have not been digitized, as in classical radio, telephone, radar, and television systems. This involves linear electronic circuits such as passive filters, active filters, additive mixers, integrators and delay lines. It also involves non-linear circuits such as compandors, multiplicators (frequency mixers and voltage-controlled amplifiers), voltage-controlled filters, voltage-controlled oscillators and phase-locked loops.Analog discrete-time signal processing is a technology based on electronic devices such as sample and hold circuits, analog time-division multiplexers, analog delay lines and analog feedback shift registers.Digital signal processing — for signals that have been digitized. Processing is done by general-purpose computers or by digital circuits such as ASICs, fieldprogrammable gate arrays or specialized digital signal processors (DSP chips).Typical arithmetical operations include fixed-point and floating-point, real-valued and complex-valued, multiplication and addition. Other typical operations supported by the hardware are circular buffers and look-up tables. Examples of algorithms are the Fast Fourier transform (FFT), finite impulse response (FIR) filter, Infinite impulse response (IIR) filter, Wiener filter and Kalman filter.For analog signals, signal processing may involve the amplification and filtering of audio signals for audio equipment or the modulation and demodulation of signals for telecommunications. For digital signals, signal processing may involve the compression, error checking and error detection of digital signals.2.3 Telecommunications engineeringIt deals with the transmission of information across a channel such as a co-axial cable, optical fiber or free space.Transmissions across free space require information to be encoded in a carrier wave in order to shift the information to a carrier frequency suitable for transmission, this is known as modulation. Popular analog modulation techniques include amplitude modulation and frequency modulation. The choice of modulation affects the cost and performance of a system and these two factors must be balanced carefully by the engineer.Once the transmission characteristics of a system are determined, telecommunication engineers design the transmitters and receivers needed for such systems. These two are sometimes combined to form a two-way communication device known as a transceiver.Telecommunications is a diverse field of engineering including electronics, civil, structural, and electrical engineering as well as being a political and social ambassador, a little bit of accounting and a lot of project management.Telecom engineers are often expected, as most engineers are, to provide the best solution possible for the lowest cost to the company.2.4 Telecom equipment engineerA telecom equipment engineer is an electronics engineer that designs equipment such as routers, switches, multiplexers, and other specialized computer/electronics equipment designed to be used in the telecommunication network infrastructure.As electrical engineers, OSP engineers are responsible for the resistance, capacitance, and inductance (RCL) design of all new plant to ensure telephone service is clear and crisp and data service is clean as well as reliable. Attenuation and loop loss calculations are required to determine cable length and size required to provide the service called for.As civil engineers, OSP egineers are responsible for drawing up plans, either by hand or using Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) software, for how telecom plant facilities will be placed. Often when working with municipalities trenching or boring permits are required and drawings must be made for these.Structural calculations are required when boring under heavy traffic areas such as highways or when attaching to other structures such as bridges.As Political and Social Ambassador, the OSP Engineer is the telephone operating companies’ face and voice to the local authorities and other utilities.2.5 Control engineeringControl systems play a critical role in space flightControl engineering is the engineering discipline that applies control theory to design systems with predictable behaviors. The engineering activities focus on the mathematical modeling of systems of a diverse nature.Control engineering has an essential role in a wide range of control systems from a simple household washing machine to a complex high performance F-16 fighter aircraft.The scope of classical control theory is limited to single-input and single-output (SISO) system design.In contrast, modern control theory is strictly carried out in complex-s domain or in frequency domain, and can deal with multi-input and multioutput (MIMO) systems.Today many of the control systems are computer controlled and they consist of both digital and analogue components.The first of these two methods is more commonly encountered in practice because many industrial systems have many continuous systems components, including mechanical, fluid, biological and analogue electrical components, with a few digital controllers.2.6 Instrumentation Engineering &Computer EngineeringThe design of instrumentation requires a good understanding of physics that often extends beyond electromagnetic theory. For example, radar guns use the Doppler effect to measure the speed of oncoming vehicles. Similarly, thermocouples use the Peltier- Seebeck effect to measure the temperature difference between two points.Instrumentation engineering is often viewed as the counterpart of control engineering.Pneumatic PID controller.Instrumentation is the branch of engineering that deals with measurement and control.An instrument is a device that measures or manipulates variables such as flow, temperature, level, or pressure. Instruments include many varied contrivances which can be as simple as valves and transmitters, and as complex as analyzers.The control of processes is one of the main branches of applied instrumentation.In addition to measuring field parameters, instrumentation is also responsible for providing the ability to modify some field parameters.To control the parameters in a process or in a particular system Microprocessors , Microcontrollers ,PLCs etc are used. But their ultimate aim is to control the parameters of a system.2.7 Computer Systems Engineering) is a discipline that combines both Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Computer engineers may also work on a system's software.The design of complex software systems is often the domain of software engineering, which is usually considered a separate puter engineers usually have training in electrical engineering, software design and hardware-software integration instead of only software engineering or electrical engineering. Usual tasks involving computer engineers include writing software and firmware for embedded microcontrollers, designing VLSI chips, designing analog sensors, designing mixed signal circuit boards, and designing operating systems. Computer engineers are also suited for robotics research, which relies heavily on using digital systems to control and monitor electrical systems like motors, communications, and sensors.2.8 AlgorithmAlgorithm is a finite sequence of instructions, logic, an explicit, step-by-step procedure for solving a problem, often used for calculation and data processing and many other fields.The transition from one state to the next is not necessarily deterministic; some algorithms, known as probabilistic algorithms, incorporate randomness.A prototypical example of an "algorithm" is Euclid's algorithm to determine the maximum common divisor of two integers (X and Y) which are greater than one: We follow a series of steps: In step i, we divide X by Y and find the remainder, which we call R1. Then we move to step i + 1, where we divide Y by R1, and find the remainder, which we call R2. If R2=0, we stop and say that R1 is the greatest common divisor of X and Y. If not, we continue, until Rn=0. Then Rn-1 is the max common division of X and Y.We might expect an algorithm to be an algebraic equation such as y = m + n — two arbitrary "input variables" m and n that produce an output y.The concept of algorithm is also used to define the notion of decidability.In logic, the time that an algorithm requires to complete cannot be measured, as it is not apparently related with our customary physical dimension.2.9 FormalizationAlgorithms are essential to the way computers process information.An algorithm can be considered to be any sequence of operations that can be simulated by a Turing-complete system.According to Savage [1987], an algorithm is a computational process defined by a Turing machine. (Gurevich 2000:3Typically, when an algorithm is associated with processing information, data is read from an input source, written to an output device, and/or stored for further processing.For any such computational process, the algorithm must be rigorously defined.The criteria for each case must be clear (and computable).2.10 Expressing algorithmsAlgorithms can be expressed in many kinds of notation, including natural languages, pseudocode, flowcharts, and programming languages. Natural language expressions of algorithms tend to be verbose and ambiguous, and are rarely used for complex or technical algorithms.Programming languages are primarily intended for expressing algorithms in a form that can be executed by a computer, but are often used as a way to define or document algorithms.Representations of algorithms are generally classed into three accepted levels of Turing machine description (Sipser 2006:157)1 High-level description:"...prose to describe an algorithm, ignoring the implementation details. At this level we do not need to mention how the machine manages its tape or head2 Implementation description:"...prose used to define the way the Turing machine uses its head and the way that it stores data on its tape. At this level we do not give details of states or transition function".3 Formal description:Most detailed, "lowest level", gives the Turing machine's "state table". For an example of the simple algorithm "Add m+n" described in all three levels.2.11 Computer algorithmsIn computer systems, an algorithm is basically an instance of logic written in software by software developers to be effective for the intended "target" computer(s), in order for the software on the target machines to do something. For instance, if a person is writing software that is supposed to print out a PDF document located at the operating system folder "/My Documents" at computer drive "D:" every Friday at 10PM, they will write an algorithm that specifies the following actions.Most algorithms are intended to be implemented as computer programs. However, algorithms are also implemented by other means, such as in a biological neural network (for example, the human brain implementing arithmetic or an insect looking for food), in an electrical circuit, or in a mechanical device.2.12 Algorithmic analysisMethods have been developed for the analysis of algorithms to obtain such quantitative answers; for example, the algorithm above has a time requirement of O(n), using the big O notation with n as the length of the list. At all times the algorithm only needs to remember two values: the largest number found so far, and its current position in the input list. Therefore it is said to have a space requirement of O(1), if the space required to store the input numbers is not counted, or O(n) if it is counted. Different algorithms may complete the same task with a different set of instructions in less or more time, space, or 'effort' than others.The analysis and study of algorithms is a discipline of computer science, and is often practiced abstractly without the use of a specific programming language or implementation. In this sense, algorithm analysis resembles other mathematical disciplines in that it focuses on the underlying properties of the algorithm and not on the specifics of any particular implementation.Iterative algorithms use repetitive constructs like loops and sometimes additional data structures like stacks to solve the given problems.Logical: An algorithm may be viewed as controlled logical deduction. This notion may be expressed as: Algorithm = logic + control (Kowalski 1979). The logic component expresses the axioms that may be used in the computation and the control component determines the way in which deduction is applied to the axioms. This is the basis for the logic programming paradigm.Algorithms are usually discussed with the assumption that computers execute one instruction of an algorithm at a time.Parallel or distributed algorithms divide the problem into more symmetrical or asymmetrical subproblems and collect the results back together.The resource consumption in such algorithms is not only processor cycles on each processor but also the communication overhead between the processors.ClassificationThere are various ways to classify algorithms, each with its own merits.By implementationOne way to classify algorithms is by implementation meansRecursion or iteration: A recursive algorithm is one that invokes (makes reference to) itself repeatedly until a certain condition matches, which is a method common to functional programming.Some problems are naturally suited for one implementation or the other. For example, towers of Hanoi is well understood in recursive implementation.Logical: An algorithm may be viewed as controlled logical deduction. This notion may be expressed as: Algorithm = logic + control (Kowalski 1979).In pure logic programming languages the control component is fixed and algorithms are specified by supplying only the logic component.Serial or parallel or distributed: Algorithms are usually discussed with the assumption that computers execute one instruction of an algorithm at a time.Those computers are sometimes called serial computers. An algorithm designed for such an environment is called a serial algorithm, as opposed to parallel algorithms or distributed algorithms.The greedy methodThe greedy method extends the solution with the best possible decision (not all feasible decisions) at an algorithmic stage based on the current local optimum and the best decision (not all possible decisions) made in a previous stage. It is not exhaustive, and does not give accurate answer to many problems. But when it works, it will be the fastest method.When solving a problem using linear programming, specific inequalities involving the inputs are found and then an attempt is made to maximize (or minimize) some linear function of the inputs.Reduction. This technique involves solving a difficult problem by transforming it into a better known problem for which we have (hopefully) asymptotically optimal algorithms. This technique is also known as transform and conquer.By field of studyEvery field of science has its own problems and needs efficient algorithms.Dynamic programming was originally invented for optimization of resource consumption in industry, but is now used in solving a broad range of problems in many fields.By complexityAlgorithms can be classified by the amount of time they need to complete compared to their input size. There is a wide variety some problems may have multiple algorithms of differing.By computing powerAnother way to classify algorithms is by computing power. This is typically done by considering some collection (class) of algorithms. A recursive class of algorithms is one that includes algorithms for all Turing computable plexity, while other problems might have no algorithms or no known efficient algorithms.For example, the algorithms that run in polynomial time suffice for many important types of computation but do not exhaust all Turing computable functions.Burgin (2005, p. 24) defines a super-recursive class of algorithms as "a class of algorithms in which it is possible to compute functions not computable by any Turingmachine" 2.13 Manipulation of symbols The work of the ancient Greek geometers, Persian mathematician Al-Khwarizmi (often considered the "father of algebra" and from whose name the terms "algorism" and "algorithm" are derived), and Western European mathematicians culminated in Leibniz's notion of the calculus ratiocinator. Leibniz proposed an algebra of logic, an algebra that would specify the rules for manipulating logical concepts in the manner that ordinary algebra specifies the rules for manipulating numbers" (Davis 2000:1).2.14 Mathematics during the 1800s up to the mid-1900sIn rapid succession the mathematics of George Boole (1847, 1854), Gottlob Frege (1879), and Giuseppe Peano (1888–1889) reduced arithmetic to a sequence of symbols manipulated by rules. Peano's The principles of arithmetic, presented by a new method (1888) was "the first attempt at an axiomatization of mathematics in a symbolic language" (van Heijenoort:81ff).Effective calculability: In an effort to solve the Entscheidungs problem defined precisely by Hilbert in 1928, mathematicians first set about to define what was meant by an "effective method" or "effective calculation" or "effective calculability" (i.e., a calculation that would succeed).Emil Post (1936) and Alan Turing (1936-7, 1939)Here is a remarkable coincidence of two men not knowing each other but describing a process of men-as-computers working on computations — and they yield virtually identical definitions.An electrical network is an interconnection of electrical elements such as resistors, inductors, capacitors, transmission lines, voltage sources, current sources, and switches.An electrical circuit is a network that has a closed loop, giving a return path for the current. A network is a connection of two or more components, and may not necessarily be a circuit.Electrical networks that consist only of sources (voltage or current), linear lumped elements (resistors, capacitors, inductors), and linear distributed elements (transmission lines) can be analyzed by algebraic and transform methods to determine DC response, AC response, and transient response.A network that also contains active electronic components is known as an electronic circuit. Such networks are generally nonlinear and require more complex design and analysis tools.2.15 Design methodsTo design any electrical circuit, either analog or digital, electrical engineers need to be able to predict the voltages and currents at all places within the circuit. Linear circuits, that is, circuits with the same input and output frequency, can be analyzed by hand using complex number theory. Other circuits can only be analyzed with specialized software programs or estimation techniques.Circuit simulation software, such as VHDL and HSPICE, allows engineers to design circuits without the time, cost and risk of error involved in building circuit prototypes.2.16 Electrical lawsOhm's law: The voltage across a resistor is equal to the product of the resistance and the current flowing through it (at constant temperature).Norton's theorem: Any network of voltage and/or current sources and resistors is electrically equivalent to an ideal current source in parallel with a single resistor.Thévenin's theorem: Any network of voltage and/or current sources and resistors is electrically equivalent to a single voltage source in series with a single resistor.Other more complex laws may be needed if the network contains nonlinear or reactive components.2.17 DatabaseA database is an integrated collection of logically related records or files which consolidates records into a common pool of data records that provides data for many applications. A database is a collection of information that is organized so that it can easily be accessed, managed, and updated.The data in a database is organized the data according to a database model. The model that is most commonly used today is the relational model. Other models such as the hierarchical model and the network model use a more explicit representation of relationships.Depending on the intended use, there are a number of database architectures in use. Many databases use a combination of strategies.It should be noted that not all databases have or need a database schema (so called schema-less databases).There are also other types of database which cannot be classified as relational databases.2.18 Database management systemsA Database Management System (DBMS) is a set of computer programs that controls the creation, maintenance, and the use of the database of an organization and its end users. It allows organizations to place control of organizationwide database development in the hands of Database Administrators (DBAs) and other specialist.In large systems, a DBMS allows users and other software to store and retrieve data in a structured way.DBMS Engine accepts logical request from the various other DBMS subsystems, converts them into physical equivalent, and actually accesses the database and data dictionary as they exist on a storage device.Analytical Databases. These databases stores data and information extracted from selected operational and external databases. They consist of summarized data and information most needed by an organizations manager and other end user.Data Warehouse Databases. It stores data from current and previous years that has been extracted from the various operational databases of an organization.Distributed Databases. These are databases of local work groups and departments at regional offices, branch offices, manufacturing plants and other work sites. These databases can include segments of both common operational and common user databases, as well as data generated and used only at a user’s own site.End-User Databases. These databases consist of a variety of data files developed by end-users at their workstations.In-Memory databases. It is a database management system that primarily relies on main memory for computer data storage.Real-time databases. It is a processing system designed to handle workloads whose state is constantly changing.Object database modelsIn recent years, the object-oriented paradigm has been applied to database technology, creating a various kinds of new programming model known as object databases. These databases attempt to bring the database world and the application programming world closer together, in particular by ensuring that the database uses the same type system as the application program.Database storage structuresDatabase storage structures Relational database tables/indexes are typically stored in memory or on hard disk in one of many forms, ordered/unordered flat files. Object databases use a range of storage mechanisms. Some use virtual memory mapped files to make the native language (C++, Java etc.) objects persistent.SecurityDatabase security denotes the system, processes, and procedures that protect a database from unintended activity.Security is usually enforced through access control, auditing, and encryption.Auditing logs what action or change has been performed, when and by whom. Access control ensures and restricts who can connect and what can be done to the database.Auditing logs what action or change has been performed, when and by whom.Encryption: Since security has become a major issue in recent years, many commercial database vendors provide built-in encryption mechanisms.2.19 Applications of databasesDatabases are used in many applications, spanning virtually the entire range of computer software. Databases are the preferred method of storage for large multiuser applications, where coordination between many users is needed.Software database drivers are available for most database platforms so that application software can use a common Application Programming Interface to retrieve the information stored in a database. Two commonly used database APIs are JDBC and ODBC.2.20 Digital electronicsDigital electronics are electronics systems that use digital signals. Digital electronics are representations of Boolean algebra (also see truth tables) and are used in computers, mobile phones, and other consumer products. In a digital circuit, a signal is represented in discrete states or logic levels. The advantages of digital techniques stem from the fact it is easier to get an electronic device to switch into one of a number of known states, than to accurately reproduce a continuous range of values, traditionally only two states, '1' and '0' are used though digital systems are not limited to this.2.21 AdvantagesOne advantage of digital circuits when compared to analog circuits is that signals represented digitally can be transmitted without degradation due to noise. For example, a continuous audio signal, transmitted as a sequence of 1s and 0s, can be reconstructed without error provided the noise picked up in transmission is not enough to prevent identification of the 1s and 0s. An hour of music can be stored on a compact disc as about 6 billion binary digits.In a digital system, a more precise representation of a signal can be obtained by using more binary digits to represent it.In an analog system, additional resolution requires fundamental improvements in the linearity and noise charactersitics of each step of the signal chain.The noiseimmunity of digital systems permits data to be stored and retrieved without degradation.In an analog system, noise from aging and wear degrade the information stored. In a digital system, as long as the total noise is below a certain level, the information can be recovered perfectly.2.22 DisadvantagesIn some cases, digital circuits use more energy than analog circuits to accomplish the same tasks, thus producing more heat. In portable or battery-powered systems this can limit use of digital systems.Digital circuits are sometimes more expensive, especially in small quantities.For example, light, temperature, sound, electrical conductivity, electric and magnetic fields are analog. Most useful digital systems must translate from continuous analog signals to discrete digital signals. This causes quantization errors.Digital fragility can be reduced by designing a digital system for robustness.2.23 Analog issues in digital circuitsDigital circuits are made from analog components. The design must assure that the analog nature of the components doesn't dominate the desired digital behavior. Digital systems must manage noise and timing margins, parasitic inductances and capacitances, and filter power connections.Digital circuits are made from analog components, digital circuits calculate more slowly than low-precision analog circuits that use a similar amount of space and power.However, the digital circuit will calculate more repeatably, because of its high noise immunity.ConstructionA digital circuit is often constructed from small electronic circuits called logic gates.A logic gate is an arrangement of electrically controlled switches.The output of a logic gate is an electrical flow or voltage, that can, in turn, control more logic gates.Integrated circuits are the least expensive way to make logic gates in large volumes.Integrated circuits are usually designed by engineers using electronic design automation software (See below for more information).2.24 Structure of digital systemsEngineers use many methods to minimize logic functions, in order to reduce the circuit's complexity. When the complexity is less, the circuit also has fewer errors and less electronics, and is therefore less expensive.Most digital systems divide into "combinatorial systems" and "sequential systems." A combinatorial system always presents the same output when given the same inputs.A sequential system is a combinatorial system with some of the outputs fed back as inputs. This makes the digital machine perform a "sequence" of operations.Sequential systems divide into two further subcategories. "Synchronous" sequential systems change state all at once, when a "clock" signal changes state. "Asynchronous" sequential systems propagate changes whenever inputs change. Synchronous sequential systems are made of well-characterized asynchronous circuits such as flip-flops, that change only when the clock changes, and which have carefully designed timing margins.Building an asynchronous circuit using faster parts implicitly makes the circuit "go" faster.More generally, many digital systems are data flow machines.In the 1980s, some researchers discovered that almost all synchronous register-transfer machines could be converted to asynchronous designs by using first-in-first-out synchronization logic. In this scheme, the digital machine is characterized as a set of data puter architects have applied large amounts of ingenuity to computer design to reduce the cost and increase the speed and immunity to programming errors of computers."Specialized computers" are usually a conventional computer with a special-purpose microprogram.The computer programs are called "electronic design automation tools" or just "EDA."optimized EDA that automatically produces reduced systems of logic gates or smaller lookup tables that still produce the desired outputs.Most practical algorithms for optimizing large logic systems use algebraic manipulations or binary decision diagrams, and there are promising experiments with genetic algorithms and annealing optimizations.Production tests are often designed by software tools called "test pattern generators." These generate test vectors by examining the structure of the logic and systematically generating tests for particular faults.2.25 Design for testabilityA large logic machine (say,. with more than a hundred logical variables) can have an astronomical number of possible states.To save time, the smaller sub-machines are isolated by permanentlyinstalled "design for test" circuitry, and are tested independently.After all the test data bits are in place, the design is reconfigured to be in "normal mode" and one or more clock pulses are applied, to test for faults (e.g. stuck-at low or stuck-at high) and capture the test result into flip-flops and/or latches in the scan shift register(s).Finally, the result of the test is shifted out to the block boundary and compared against the predicted "good machine" result.The goal of a designer is not just to make the simplest circuit, but to keep the component count down. Sometimes this results in slightly more complicated designs with respect to the underlying digital logic but nevertheless reduces the number of components, board size, and even power consumption.For example, in some logic families, NAND gates are the simplest digital gate to build.The "reliability" of a logic gate describes its mean time between failure (MTBF). Digital machines often have millions of logic gates.Digital machines first became useful when the MTBF for a switch got above a few hundred hours.Modern transistorized integrated circuit logic gates have MTBFs ofnearly a trillion (1×1012) hours, and need them because they have so many logic gates.Fanout describes how many logic inputs can be controlled by a single logic output. The minimum practical fanout is about five. Modern electronic logic using CMOS transistors for switches have fanouts near fifty, and can sometimes go much higher.Modern electronic digital logic routinely switches at five gigahertz (5×109 hertz), and some laboratory systems switch at more than a terahertz (1×1012 hertz).2.26 Logic familiesDesign started with relays. Relay logic was relatively inexpensive and reliable, but slow.Occasionally a mechanical failure would occur. Fanouts were typically about ten, limited by the resistance of the coils and arcing on the contacts from high voltages.Later, vacuum tubes were used. These were very fast, but generated heat, and were unreliable because the filaments would burn out.In the 1950s, special "computer tubes" were de veloped with filaments that omitted volatile elements like silicon. These ran for hundreds of thousands of hours.The first semiconductor logic family was Resistor-transistor logic.Diode-transistor logic improved the fanout up to about seven, and reduced the power. Some DTL designs used two power-supplies with alternating layers of NPN and PNP transistors to increase the fanout.Transistor transistor logic (TTL) was a great improvement over these.This is very fast but uses a lot of power. It's now used mostly in radio-frequency circuits.Modern integrated circuits mostly use variations of CMOS, which is acceptably fast, very small and uses very little power.2.27 Embedded systemPicture of the internals of a Netgear ADSL modem/router.An embedded system is a computer system designed to perform one or a few dedicated functions, often with real-time computing constraints.In contrast, a general-purpose computer, such as a personal computer, can do many different tasks depending on programming.Some embedded systems are mass-produced, benefiting from economies of scale.Physically, embedded systems range from portable devices such as digital watches and MP3 players, to large stationary installations like traffic lights, factory controllers, or the systems controlling nuclear power plants."Embedded system" is not an exactly defined term, as many systems have some element of programmability. For example, Handheld computers share some elements with embedded systems — such as the operating systems and microprocessors which power them.Automobiles, electric vehicles, and hybrid vehicles are increasingly using embedded systems to maximize efficiency and reduce pollution. Other automotive safety systems such as anti-lock braking system (ABS), Electronic Stability Control (ESC/ESP), traction control (TCS) and automatic four-wheel drive.In addition to commonly described embedded systems based on small computers, a new class of miniature wireless devices called motes are quickly gaining popularity as the field of wireless sensor networking rises.In 1978 National Engineering Manufacturers Association released a "standard" for programmable microcontrollers, including almost any computer-based controllers, such as single board computers, numerical, and event-based controllers.2.28 CPU platformsEmbedded processors can be broken into two broad categories: ordinary microprocessors (μP) and microcontrollers (μC), which have many more peripherals on chip, reducing cost and size. Contrasting to the personal computer and server markets, a fairly large number of basic CPU architectures are used;In certain applications, where small size is not a primary concern, the components used may be compatible with those used in general purpose computers.A common configuration for very-high-volume embedded systems is the system on a chip (SoC) which contains a complete system consisting of multiple processors, multipliers, caches and interfaces on a single chip. SoCs can be implemented as an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) or using a field-programmable gate array (FPGA).2.28 DebuggingEmbedded Debugging may be performed at different levels, depending on the facilities available. From simplest to most sophisticated they can be roughly grouped into the following areas:A common problem with multi-core development is the proper synchronization of software execution. In such a case, the embedded system design may wish to check the data traffic on the busses between the processor cores, which requires very low-level debugging, at signal/bus level, with a logic analyzer, for instance.ReliabilityEmbedded systems often reside in machines that are expected to run continuously for years without errors, and in some cases recover by themselves if an error occurs.High vs Low VolumeFor high volume systems such as portable music players or mobile phones, minimizing cost is usually the primary design consideration. Engineers typically select hardware that is just “good enough” to implement the necessary functions.For low-volume or prototype embedded systems, general purpose computers may be adapted by limiting the programs or by replacing the operating system with a real-time operating system.Microkernels and exokernelsA microkernel is a logical step up from a real-time OS. The usual arrangement is that the operating system kernel allocates memory and switches the CPU to different threads ofexecution.In general, microkernels succeed when the task switching and intertask communication is fast, and fail when they are slow.All the software in the system are available to, and extensible by application programmers.Additional software componentsIn addition to the core operating system, many embedded systems have additional upperlayer software components. These components consist of networking protocol stacks like CAN, TCP/IP, FTP, HTTP, and HTTPS, and also included storage capabilities like FAT and Flash memory management systems. If the embedded devices has audio and video capabilities, then the appropriate drivers and codecs will be present in the system. In the case of the monolithic kernels, many of these software layers are included. In the RTOS category, the availability of the additional software components depends upon the commercial offering.APPLICATIONS AND BASIC PRINCIPLES OF ABSORBERS 3.1 Reverberation controlIn excessively reverberant spaces the sound echoes around the space making it noisy and difficult to communicate. For some reason, many restaurateurs seem to think that to create the right atmosphere, it is necessary to make speech communication virtually impossible. The issue here is reverberation.Reverberation is the decay of sound after a sound source has stopped and it is a key feature in room acoustics. Reverberating is most audible in large spaces with hard surfaces, such as cathedrals, were the sound echoes around long after the sound was emitted from the source. In small spaces, with plenty of soft, acoustically absorbent materials, such as living rooms, the absorbent materials quickly absorb the sound energy, and the sound dies away rapidly. When people talk about rooms being “live” or “dead” this is usually about the perception of reverberance.The amount of reverberation in a space depends on the size of the room and the amount of sound absorption. Adding acoustic absorbers reduce the reflected sound energy in the room and so reduce the reverberance and sound level. Consequently, the best place for absorption is the ceiling or high up on the walls out of the way.Getting the correct amount of reverberation in a space is vital to the design of most rooms, whether the aime is to make music sound beautiful, to make speech intelligible, to reduce noise levels or to make a space pleasant place to be in.Returning to more general reverberation, the primary technique for control is absorptionThe reverberation time measures the time taken for the sound pressure level to decay by 60 dB when a sound stops. From the impulse response, the Schroeder curve must be ca?lculated first by integration, before evaluating the reverberation time.Sabine showed that the reverberation time could be calculated from the room volume and absorption by:T60 =55.3VcAWhere V is the room volume; c the speed of sound, and A the total absorption of all room surface.The total absorption of the room can be calculated from the individual absorption coefficients of the rooms surfaces, using the following expression:A=i=lNSiαi The absorption coefficient of a surface is the ratio of the energy absorbed by the surface to the energy incident in values 0 to 1.The absorption coefficient can be defined for a specific angle of incidence or random incidence as required.The reverberation time formulations are statistical models of room acoustic behavior, and are only applicable where there are a large number of reflections and the sound field is diffuse. For instance, at low frequencies, the modal behavior of the room makes the sound field non-diffuse. Consequently, there is a lower frequency bound on the applicability of statistical absorptipn formulations. The lower bound is usually taken to be the Schroeder frequency given by:f≥2000√T60∕?Although this formal limit has been known for many years it does not prevent many practitioners, standards and researchers still defining and using absorption coefficients below the Schroeder frequency, as it is convenient, even if not strictly phisically correct.The reverberant field level is reduced by the addition of absorption and hence the noise exposure is decreased by typically up to 3-4dB.There are situations here de absorbent need some different materials. Porous absorbers are more effective at mid to high frequencies, but this is where the ear is most sensitive and consequently where noise control is most needed in the working environment.If the room’s dimensions are very dissimilar, there is a tendency to get different reverberation times in different directions as happens with many factories. Sound will decay faster if it is propagating perpendicular rather then parallel to the floor, as the perpendicular propagating sound will reflect more often, and it is at the reflections that most absorption occurs. Even when the room dimensions have been carefully chosen, however, the frequency response of the room will still be uneven and acoustic treatment is needed.Porous absorbers are not usually used as they would have to be extremely thick to provide significant bass absorption. Resonant absorbers are preferred for treating low frequencies. The problem with resonant absorbers is that they usually only provide a narrow bandwidth of absorption. To cover a wide bandwidth, a series of absorbers are required, each tuned to a different frequency range.3.2 Echo control in auditoria and lecture theatresIn a large auditorium, the reflection from the rear wall is a common source of echo problems for audience members near the front of the stalls or performers on the stage. Echos are very likely if the rear wall forms a concave arc, which focuses the reflections at the front of the wall. One technique for removing the echo is to apply absorption to the rear wall.pt,r=Aejωt-k.r=Aej(ωt-kx-k y-k z)Where k= {Kx, Ky, Kz } is the wavenumber with Kx being the component in the x direction,K?= │K│?= Rx?+Ry?+Rz?; A is a constant related to the magnitude of the wave; r={x, y, z} is the the location of the observation point; t is time, and ? =2?= Rc is the angular frequency, where ? is the frequency and c the speed of sound.For a porous absorber, the effective density and bulk modulus can be related to the characteristic impedance and wavenumber by the following formulations. The characteristic impedance is given by:Zc=KePeAnd the propagation wavenumber by:K=ωPeKe3.3 Impedance, admittance, reflection coefficient and absorptionThe effect that a surface has on an acoustic wave can be characterized by for inter-related acoustic quantities: the impedance, the admittance, the pressure reflection coefficient and the absorption coefficient. These for acoustic quantities is fundamental to understanding absorbing materials.For most absorbents, the speed of sound is much less then that in air. Consequently, the angle of propagation in the medium is smaller then in the air.In situations where sound pressure levels are very high, the non-linear behaviour of sound within the absorbent will need to be considered. Silencers come in three main forms: reactive, absorptive and a combination of reactive and absorptive. They are of more interest because they remove sound energy using porous absorbents. The attenuation is proportional to the perimeter area ratio, T/A, where P is the lined perimeter and A the cross-section of the silencer. The low frequency performance is determined by the thickness of the baffles, with d=λ/8 being optimal.Absorbers performance is likely to decrease over time unless specialized and expencive durable absorbers are used.3.4 Natural noise controlIt is common to find grass or tree covered areas around major noise sources and optimazing the natural features to maximize attenuation offers a sustainable solution to noise. Where spaces allows, the use of natural means (trees, shrubs and ground) rather then artificial barriers, has the advantage of contributing to other issues in sustainability such as: reducing air polluition; generating access to local green areas, and reversing the long term decline in wildlife habitats and populations.3.5 Loudspeaker cabinetsMost conventional loudspeaker are mounted within cabinets to prevent sound generated by the rear of the driver interfering with that radiating from the front. The enclosure changes the behavior of the driver, because the air cavity forms a compliance which alters the mechanical behavior of the driver, and this must be allowed for in the loudspeaker design . By placing absorption within the cavity the resonant modes are damped and the sound quality improved.Applications and basic principles of diffusersThere are locations, such as rear walls of large auditoria, where there is a general consensus that diffusers are a good treatment to prevent echoes and better than traditional absorbers.3.6 Echo control in auditoriaEchoes are caused by late arriving by reflections with a level significantly above the general reverberance. The echo might also come from a balcony front or many other multiple paths. Fluter echoes are caused by repeated reflections from parallel walls and are often heard in lecture theatres, corridors and meeting rooms. In other cases, the choice between diffusers and absorbers will rest on whether the energy lost to absorption will detract or improve other aspects of the acoustics, such as the reverberance, envelopment and intelligibility.3.7 Wavefronts and diffusers reflectionsIn diffuse reflection the wavefront is spatially unaltered from the incident sound. Consequently, the sound from the source reflects straight back, and is unchanged and not dispersed.When the direct sound and a specular reflection combine, they form a comb filter. The time delay between the direct sound and the reflection determine the frequency spacing of the minima and maxima, and the relative amplitudes of the sound, the levels of the minima and maxima. Comb filtering is an effect that should be avoided in critical listening rooms and performance spaces.Another way of forming a diffuser is to combine reflection and absorption. By putting patches of absorbent on a wall, reflections from parts of the surface will be absent and dispersion is generated. Traditionally acousticians have utilized patches of absorption on walls to obtain dispersion.Manu diffusers are designed simply assuming that temporal variation will produce uniform spatial dispersion and an acceptable frequency response, however this is not necessarily the case. Both surface and volume diffusion refers to cases where the sound field, or surface reflections, become more complex.The diffuser introduces temporal dispersion of the reflected sound, which leads to a more complicated frequency response. The regularity of the comb filtering is minimized, and consequently its audibility is diminished.If some liveliness is to be left in the room, a combination of absorbers and diffusers is better than absorption and flat walls, which generate specular reflections. Consequently, many of the industry’s leading mastering facilities use this combination of treatments. Live performance studios also usually employ a mixture of absorbers and diffusers.A listener would not consider sitting 30cm from a multi-way loudspeaker, because the listener would be in the near field of the device. At some distance from the loudspeaker, all individual high, mid and low frequency waves from the individual drivers will combine to form a coherent wavefront.When listening to music in a room, the total field is heard which is a combination of the direct sound and reflections. 3.8 Blurring the focusing from concave surfacesConcave surfaces can cause focusing in a similar manner to concave mirrors. This can lead to uneven sound around a room, which is usually undesirable. The treatment available are absorbers or diffusers. The concentration of sound at the focus is clear. To overcome this problem, diffuser was specified by Raf Orlowski of Arup Acoustic, UK.3.9 MEASUREMENT OF ABSORBER PROPERTIESFor many practitioners, the only important measurement is that which gives the random incidence absorption coefficient in a reverberation chamber. While this may be the absorption coefficient that is needed for performance specifications in room design, other measurements are needed to understand and model absorptive materials. The more controlled environment that is often used is the impedance tube, which allows normal incidence impedance and absorption to be determined.The impedance of the sample alters how sound is reflected and, by measuring the resulting standing wave, it is possible to calculate the normal incidence absorption coefficient and surface impedance of the sample.The most common free field method uses a two-microphone approach, but this is often only applicable to isotropic, homogeneous samples. Attention has recently turned to using more than two microphones; however, the measurements appear to be problematic and very noise sensitive.The highest frequency, ?u, that can be measured in a tube is then determined by:??=c2d Where d is the tube diameter or maximum width and c the speed of sound.For normal incidence, the reflection coefficients of the sample obtained using the in situ method match those obtained using a standing wave method in an impedance tube. For oblique incident and at low frequencies (<800HZ), the method fails with the reflection coefficient exceeding. This occurs because there is an implicit assumption of plane waves in the methodology. At low frequencies, the edges of the test samole created other types of reflected waves, which then render the technique inaccurate.3.9.1 Porous absorptionPorous absorbers are carpets, acoustic tiles, acoustic foams, curtains, cushions, cotton and mineral wools such as fiberglass. They are materials where sound propagation occurs in a network of interconnected pores in such a way that viscous and thermal effects cause acoustic energy to be dissipated. They are used widely to treat acoustic problems, in cavity walls and noisy environments to reduce noise and in rooms to reduce reverberance.For the porous absorber to create significant absorption, it needs to be placed somewhere where the particle velocity is high. The particle velocity close to a room boundary is usually zero, and so the parts of the absorbent close to the boundary generate insignificant absorption. The amount of energy absorbed by a porous material varies with angle of incidence.The performance varies most with angle of incidence for the least dense mineral wools. With too high a flow resistivity the impedance mismatch between the air and the absorbent causes the sound to reflect from the front face and the absorption reduces.To get broadband passive absorption across the frequencies, requires a combination of resonant and porous absorption. If the perforated sheet does not have a very open structure, with a large per cent open area, the mass effect of the holes will increase the absorption at low frequency but decrease absorption at high frequency.3.9.2 Resonant absorbersBy exploiting resonance it is possible to get absorption at low to mid-frequencies. It is difficult to achieve this with porous absorbers, because of the required thickness of the material. The ideas and concepts of resonant absorption have been known for many decades. In recent years, some more specialist devices have been produced, for instance clear absorbers, but these are still based on the same basic physics. While some devices, such as many basic Helmholtz absorbers, can be predicted with reasonable accuracy.The high frequency absorption decreases because the proportion of solid parts of the perforated sheet increases, and these parts reflect high frequency sound. The maximum absorption decreases somewhat as the resonant frequency decreases. If these absorbers were tuned to a lower frequency, this decrease would be more marked. The reason for this is that the impedance of the porous material moves further from the characteristic impedance of air at low frequencies, making the absorbent less efficient. A lower flow resistivity leads to an impedance less then characteristic, which results in a reduction in bandwidth and maximum absorption.The frequency of absorption can be varied by choosing the hole size, open area and cavity depth. Although in this case, the amount of variation in this design variables that is achievable is rather limited, because of restrictions imposed by diffusers surface profile. To get absorption across a broader frequency range, a double layer construction is needed, or additional porous absorbent needs to be placed on the room surface.3.9.3 Helmholtz resonatorWhen a porous absorbent is placed in the cavity, sound propagation is generally normal to the surface and so the need for subdividing is less critical, except at very low frequencies.The hole spacing should be large compared to the hole diameter. The acoustic mass per unit area is : m=?D?t’/?a? where t’ is the thickness of the perforated sheet with the and corrections and other variables. Under these assumptions, the resonant frequency is:?=c2π√St?Vwhere S =πa2 is the area of the holes, and V the volume = D?d of each unit cell.This is the same formulation as derived by other methods, such as lumped parameter equivalent electrical circuits.At low frequencies, without partitions within the cavity, this may become less true as lateral propagation modes become more significant. Any lateral propagation would be expected to decrease the absorption achieved for most angles of incidence.Active absorbers and diffusers.Low frequencies have long wavelengths, which means the absorbers and diffusers have to be large to perturb or absorb the wavefronts. In recent years there has been growing interest in the use of active control technologies to absorb or diffuse low frequency sound.Active absorption has much in common with active noise control, indeed in many ways it is the same concept just re-organized behind a slightly different philosophy.3.9.4 Active Absorption in three dimensionsA sound field in a room can be expressed as a modal decomposition. This implies that the sound field may be considered as the sum of a large number of second-order functions; these functions can be implemented as infinite inpulse response (IIR) biquad filters. The coefficients of these filters are determined by fitting responses to measurements in the physical sound field. The sensitivity of this control regime to changes in room conditions is unknown. Presumably it would be necessary to regularly recalibrate the system for the damping to remain efficient.3.9.5 Active DiffusersActive devices might offer significant advantages over passive devices. Most importantly, they allow diffusion over a wider bandwidth by extending the response of the diffusing surfaces to lower frequencies. This is useful because the space available for diffusers is usually limited. To achieve good diffusion, a passive diffuser must be significantly deep compared to the wavelength of sound, and at low frequencies building space costs generally limit the depth of treatments and so performance is compromised.Active diffusers also enable surface to be designed which are not physically realizable using passive technologies, for example surfaces where the well depth is frequency dependent. Another limitation in diffuser design comes from the visual requirements of interior designers. A good diffuser must be a unifield part of the architectural design, rather than an obvious add-on. Active devices allow variability. Many rooms have to be multi-purpose, and active elements have the potential to enable the acoustics of a space to be easily changed.The high frequency diffusion is provided by the passive elements in the diffuser, and the active elements deal with the low frequencies. There is a complementary relationship between the passive and active elements, as there was with hybrid active absorbers.3.9.6 ControllersThe structures and control regimes described for active absorbers can be adapted to make active diffusers. The control loudspeaker is instrumented to measure and velocity, and from this the surface impedance can be obtained and manipulated to a desired value using the techniques described for active absorption. The target surface impedance required for active diffusers is more complex than for active absorbers and more difficult to achieve. Furthermore, in comparison to active absorbers, active diffusers have a smaller region of stable control and are more sensitive to control impedance errors. This explains why active diffusers are so much more difficult to produce than active absorbers.4. ACOUSTIC: AN INTRODUCTIONEvery layman knows that a theatre or concert hall may have good or less “acoustics” ex. Some churches, in working rooms such as factories or open-plan offices. However, the calculation of just one single normal mode of a realistic room with all its details turns out to quite difficult.For a room with a volume as small as 400m3 and a reverberation tim 1s the frequency range that covers most of the audible frequencies, namely, those abouve 100Hz.4.1 Geometric room acousticIn analogy to geometric optics limited to the range of very high frequencies where diffraction and interferences can be neglected, it is convenient to think of sound rays as the carriers of sound energy instead of extended sound waves. From this concept it can be immediately concluded that the total energy of a sound ray remains constant during its propagation – provided we neglect attenuation in the air; however however, its energy density is inversely proportional to the distance from its origin, as in any spherical wave.The most important law of geometric room acoustics is the law of “specular” reflection which reduces to the simple ruleAngle of incidence = angle of reflectionThe construction of rays is a simple way to examine the contributions of wall and celing portions to the supply of an audience with sound. However, if many multiple reflections are to be taken into account, this picture will become too confusing and looses its clarity. One original source and all its images produce the same signal. The energy loss of a ray due to imperfect wall reflections is approximately accounted for by attributing a reduced power output to the image source.The construction of image sources is particularly simple for a rectangular room. Because of the symmetry of this enclosure many of its image sources coincide.For calculating the resulting sound signal in an receiving point P we ought to add the sound pressures of all contributions. If the room is excited by a sine tone the total intensity in P is obtained as1=12Zo|nPn| ? = 12Zo Pn PmWith the aid of geometric acoustic we can examine not only the spatial distribution of stationary sound energy within a room but also the temporal succession in which the reflected sounds arrive at a given point in the room. The signal received by the listener can be represented ass't= nans(t-tn)Generally, our hearing does not perceive reflections with delays of less than about 50 ms as separated acoustical events. Instead such reflections enhance the apparent loudness of the direct sound, therefore they are often referred to as “useful reflections”.Another feature of a reflection is the direction from which it arrives at the listener’s position. Although most of the sound energy he receives arrives from other directions than from that of the direct sound. This interesting effect is due to the “law of the first wavefront”.4.2 Diffuse sound fieldIn a closed room the sound waves are repeatedly reflected from its boundary, and with each reflection they change their direction.The energy density is associated with the intensity and is dw= I’ dΩ/c. The total energy density is obtained by integrating this quantity over all directions, that is, over the full solid angle 4π:w=1c 4πI'?,ΘdΩThe independence of the” differential intensity” I’ on the angles ? and ? as was assumed here means that all directions participate equally in the sound propagation.4.3 Energy density and reverberationNow our main concern is the energy density which will be established a certain acoustical power is supplied to room. It is intuitively clear that the energy density in a room will be the higher, the more acoustical power is reduced by a sound source operated in it, and the lesser energy per second will be lost by dissipative processes, in particular, the lower the absorption coefficient of the boundary. This leads us immediately to the energy balance:Temporal change of the energy content = energy supplied by the source – absorbed energy.The energy supplied to the room per second is the power output P of the source. Hence the mathematical expression for the energy balance readsVdwdt=Pt- c4 AwThis is a differential equation of first order for the energy density. The source power P is assumed as constant, then the same holds for the energy density. This leads tow=4PcAThis formula agrees with what we have expected.4.4 Electroacoustic transducersAcoustical signals can be analysed and processed in nearly every desired way; furthermore, we can transmit them over long distances or stor them in several ways and retriev them at any time.An electroacoustic transducer is a system that means in two ports, one of them being the input terminals to which the signal to be converted is applied, while the second one is the output terminal which yields the result of the conversion.In the ideal case for any input signal s1 (t) the corresponding output signal s2 (t) should be given by the simple relationships2(t) = K . s1 (t – Δt)With Constant K. The time interval Δt in the argument of s1 is to indicate that we allow for some delay of the output signal provided it is sufficiently small.At best we can expect that a real transducer meets condition within a limited frequency range. The majority of electroacoustic transducers employ electrical or magnetic fields to link mechanical and electrical quantities.4.5 Piezoelectric transducerMany solid materials are electrically polarized when they are deformed which manifests itself as an electrical charge on its surface. This property is called piezoelectricity. The piezoelectric transducer can be represented by an equivalent electrical circuit, which can be throught of as the entrails, so-to-speak, of the box.In the audio range the piezoelectric transducer has to compete with several other kinds of transducers.Most piezoelectric transducers for practical applications, however, consist of ceramics made of certain ferroelectric materials such as barium titanate, lead zirconate (PZT) or lead metaniobate.4.6 Electrostatic transducerIf we leave out piezoelectric material from the parallel-plate capacitor we arrive at the electrostatic transducer, also known as dielectric or capacitive transducer. The reverse effect exists too: varying de distance of the electrodes of a charged capacitor changes its capacity and hence its voltage, or its charge, or both of them, depending on the electrical load of the electrodes. Any change of electrical charge is linked to a charging or discharging current.The electrodes of a parallel-plate capacitor charged to a voltage U attract each other the force:Ftot= C02d . U2 Hence, the total force Ftot is composed of a constant part which must be balanced by a suitable suspension of the electrodes and by the alternating force.4.7 Magnetic transducerThe magnetic transducer consists basically, of a magnet and a movable part – the armature – made of magnetically soft iron.As with the electrostatic transducer the force is proportional to the square of the electrical quantity – here of the magnetic field strength.The magnetostrictive transducer had its particular merits as a robust sound projector in underwater sound. Likewised, it played an important role in the generation of intense ultrasound with frequencies up to about 50kHz.If we consider a dynamic loudspeaker with a transducer constant M = 1 N/A. We assume that the alastic suspension of the diaphragm and the moving coil has a compliance of 5 . 10-4m/N; the inductance L of the moving coil be mH. With these data yilds:Kdyn= 0.7074.8 MicrophonesMicrophones in the widest sense are electroacoustical sound receivers, that is, devices which convert acoustical or mechanical vibrations into electrical signals. They are used to record sound signals such as speech or music. Furthermore, they serve to measure sound field quantities, iin particular, the sound pressure. For the performance of a microphone several characteristic features are important. One of them is sensitivity. At best the sensitivity can be expected to be constant within a certain limited frequency range. The directivity of a microphone is a third feature which is of significance in practical applications.The increase of the membrane deflection with the angular frequency ω = ck, and its characteristic dependence on the angle under which the sound wave arrives.The frequency dependence of the pressure sensitivity vanishes, by the way, if the openings in the rear wall are very long and narrow. Then the motion of the diaphragm is controlled by the flow resistance r which the air experiences when it is forced through the openings. The mechanical input impedance of some microphone capsules is considerably complicated in its mechanical construction and sensibility.4.9 Condenser microphoneProbably the simplest way to convert acoustic signals into electrical ones is by arranging a metal plate inside the capsule, parallel to the diaphragm. Together with the membrane it forms a parallel-plate capacitor, and the whole device acts as an electrostatic transducer.The condenser microphone is considered a pressure gradient sensor and they are built in many different forms. The fabrication of these microphones makes great demands on mechanical precision. Its sensitivity is of the order of 10 mV/Pa.4.10 Piezoelectric microphonesIn a piezoelectric microphone the diaphragm is in mechanical contact with a body of piezoelectric material which performs thetransduction of its deflection into an electrical signal. Nevertheless, the cable connecting the microphone to an amplifier must not be too long, because it would be increased by the cable capacitance resulting in a lower sensitivity. The sensitivity of a piezoelectric microphone is comparable to that of a condenser microphone.4.11 Dynamic microphonesThe dynamic transducer principle is another useful basis of microphone construction. One widely used version of a dynamic microphone is the moving-coil microphone. Essentially, its consist of a small coil within the cylindrical air gap of a permanent magnet which produces a radial magnetic field in it. The output voltage of this microphone is, as with all dynamic transducers, proportional to the velocity of the moving coil. Therefore, if the pressure sensitivity is to be frequency independent, the motion of the diaphragm should be resistance-controlled, that is, with a mechanical input impedance just consisting of a resistance r. In the case we haveU1=0 = Mv = MrS . pIn general, the inductance of the moving coil can be neglected against its electrical resistance which is typically 200Ohm. The microphone can be connected to a cable without dramatic loss of sensitivity.4.12 Carbon MicrophoneFor a long time, the carbon microphone was the standard microphone in telephone communication techniques. This is because of its high sensitivity and its mechanical robustness, properties which were deemed more important in its practical operation than high fidelity. However, it has been replaced with other microphone types.4.13 HydrophonesHydrophones are microphones for detecting sound in a liquid media. They have a wide application especially in underwater techniques and are important components of most sonar systems. In ultra-sonic they are mainly used for measuring purposes as, for instance, for the examination and the surveillance of the sound field produced by ultrasonic sound projectors. Most hydrophones are based on the piezoelectric transducer principle. Particularly, high-frequency bandwidth is achieved with the needle hydrophone; it consist of metal needle the tip of which is covered by a thin film of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), which of course must be polarized before use.4.14 Loudspeakers and other electroacoustic sound sourcesLoudspeakers are the most widely used electroacoustic devices. We find them in every radio or television set, in every stereo system and even our motor car is equipped with several loudspeaker. Another important aspect is the output power attainable with a loudspeaker, of course, under the condition that non-linear distortions within tolerable limits. The construction of the transducer determines the electrical properties of the sound transmitter but is also responsible for the occurrence of linear and non-linear distortions.In particular, after the sound power radiated from a circular piston in an infinite baffle is in the low-frequency limit (Ka? 1 with a = piston radius.The relationship between membrane motion and sound pressure which is so unfavourable for loudspeaker construction is a characteristic feature of sound radiation into three-dimensional space.4.14.1 Dynamic loudspeakerThe loudspeaker which is almost exclusively used today is based on the dynamic transducer principle. As in the moving-coil microphone the conductor interacting with the magnetic field is a cylindrical coil of wire arranged concentrically in the annular gap of a strong permanent magnet.The condition that the loudspeaker is driven with frequencies-constant electrical current is not very strigent because for frequencies below about 1000Hz the inductance of the voice coil can be neglected in comparison of its resistance which typically 4 or 8 ohms. Therefore the loudspeaker can be fed without problem from a constant voltage amplifier. Generally, the diaphragm of loudspeakers is composed of paper, sometimes of plastics or aluminum. At medium and high frequencies it vibrates no longer uniformly since flexural resonances may be excited on it which impair the frequency response of the loudspeaker. Of course, it is much easier to optimize a loudspeaker for a restricted frequency range. Therefore the whole audio range is often subdivided into several frequency bands for instance, in a low- frequency, a mid-frequency and a high frequency band, which are served by separate loudspeaker fed from suitable cross-over network. The transient behavior of the dynamic loudspeaker is mainly determined by its mechanical resonance.4.14.2 Electrostatic or condensor loudspeakerThe diaphragm of a condenser loudspeaker consists of a thin and light foil of metal or a metalized plastic. The mechanical impedance of the membrane is so low that the mechanical properties of the electrostatic loudspeaker are mainly determined by its radiation.At low frequencies the radiation impedance of the loudspeaker consists mainly of reactive component, jωmr with mr denoting the “radiation mass”. Hence the velocity of the membrane isvo=N jωmr . UThe electrostatic loudspeaker is highly appreciated by some connoisseurs. Nevertheless, it represents no real alternative to the much more robust and less costly dynamic loudspeaker.4.14.3 Magnetic loudspeakerToday, the magnetic loudspeaker is of historical interest only, because it is inferior to the dynamic loudspeaker when it comes to distortions. Nevertheless, in the beginning of the broadcasting era even in the thirties it was in widespread use because of its simple construction and its high efficiency. Its essential components are a permanent magnet and a small bar of iron, the armature, which is kept in front of the magnetic poles by a flexible spring. Depending on the polarity its current the armature is drawn either towards the left or the right side. This motion is conveyed to a conical paper membrane by a little pin.4.14.4 The closed loudspeaker cabinetThe most common way of avoiding an acoustical short-circuit is by mounting the loudspeaker system into one wall of an otherwise closed enclosure. However, it should be noted that the loudspeaker interacts with the air enclosed in the box. Thus the air is alternately compressed and rarefied by the motion of the diaphragm, hence at low frequencies it reacts like a spring increasing the stiffness of the system.4.14.5 The bass-reflex cabinetIn a way it is unsatisfactory to waste the sound energy radiated from the rear side of a loudspeaker diaphragm. The bass-reflex cabinet is a method which uses that sound portion to extend the range of efficient sound radiation towards lower frequencies. It differs from the closed loudspeaker cabinet, in having a vent in the front wall of the cabinet including a short tube inside. This por emits sound when the air confined in it is set into oscillations.At very low frequencies the air confined in the vent moves in the opposite direction to the motion of the diaphragm: if the membrane is slowly pressed inside the displaced air simply escapes through the vent.4.14.6 Horn loudspeakersIn real horn loudspeakers the diaphragm is driven by specially designed dynamical systems. The radiation resistance which loads the diaphragm of the driven system can be further increased by arranging for a “compression chamber” between the diaphragm and the throat of the horn. The earlier statements on the function of horn loudspeakers apply to infinitely long horns . For exact calculations of the horn shapes the curvature of wavefronts must be taken into account. Horn loudspeakers are very common applied in sound reinforcement systems.4.14.7 Loudspeaker directivityMost loudspeakers project the sound they produce preferably in a certain direction except at very low frequencies. This directivity is often desirable especially in sound reinforcement applications when large audiences are to be supplied with sound as, for instance, in sports arenas or in large halls. One benefit of loudspeaker directivity is that the power output of amplifiers and loudspeakers can be kept smaller when the sound energy is directed towards the place where it is needed (audience area).Many horns have rectangular cross sections with different expansions in both directions, for instance, exponential in vertical direction but with flat side walls.Another common design is the multicellular horn consisting of several individual horns created by subdividing the cross section with partitions. Furthermore, linear loudspeaker arrays, sometimes also called line or column systems are widely used.It is useful to characterize a particular direction not by the elevation angle α but by its complement α'=90-α, that is by the angle between that direction and the line axis. sinα=cosα'=sinθcos? Thus, for instance, it is no longer necessary to mount loudspeaker arrays vertically; instead, they can be placed underneath the ceiling, giving them the desired directivity by proper delays. In this way they are less visible and the stage area more pleasant.5. GENERAL ANALYSIS?? The electronic engineering, is of extreme importance in today's world we live in, pushing new technologies.The electrical engineering is present in most areas drivers of development, especially now that globalization affects everyone in an almost voluntary, because we can not isolate the other partsof the globe.It is important to note how new technologies are expanding to the four corners of the world precisely because of the advances seen in electronic engineering which infects people with innovations due to the facilitation of life that these technologies offer.In my country (Cape Verde) the use of this technological evolution is evident because fifteen years ago electrification and phone internet radio and television existed only in urban centers. Today, these goods and services, are present in almost all rural areas due to the introduction of new technologies allowing brands the value that electronic engineering is developing, facilitating and helping to improve the lives of people.Lately, the cooperation of developed countries with poor countries, has been based more on creating the conditions for the expansion of new technologies to the urban and rural populations approaching them with the rest of the world.In all related areas, this is the electronic engineering, not only in the design of systems that use universal and adequate to certain climatic conditions, geographical and topographical.Adriano Pedro Rodrigues 2013/01/22 6.CONCLUSION?? Engineering is one of the areas in its various aspects based its principles on innovation and is considered one of the pillars of knowledge, having as source of the past and projecting the present and the future. Hence, the authors of the various chapters that served as subjects of study, are concerned with raising awareness of the history or origin of things, allowing us to know the aspects and stages of evolving technologies, serving to boost each other.Engineering is something that not to and, new technologies continue to challenge engineers to innovate various areas of correcting errors that may have occurred in the past and projecting the best for the future.In this case, the engineering electro / electronics is one of the most important levels of new technologies, with the support of the same with regard to instrumentation, control, andproduction efficiency.In conclusion, electronic engineering is present in most areas driving development.Because we are currently living in constant liaison with the new technologies, it is important to acquire knowledge within the general culture in facilitating the management of equipment that take part in our daily lives.Adriano Pedro Rodrigues2013/01/257. 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