本书围绕电子信息科学、通信及计算机等前沿领域的相关知识,按知识结构是分为15个单元,涉及电子电路、EDA设计、微处理器设计、计算机网络、多媒体技术、移动通信、现代电视技术、光纤通信、信号处理、信息**、模式识别与人工智能等电子信息学科的专业知识,内容广泛,选材新颖。每个单元包括多篇课文,以增强学生阅读兴趣和扩展其知识面,课后给出部分词汇和关键短语释义以及较难懂句子注释,并配有一定量的练习题,以考查学生阅读理解能力和知识点的掌握。本书可使学生熟悉和掌握一定英语写作和翻译技巧,开阔专业视野。
本书可作为高等院校电子信息科学、通信工程、计算机科学、自动化技术等相关专业大学本科生的专业英语和专业导论教材,也可用作相关领域专业人员提高英语水平的阅读参考书。本书同样适合参加四、六级和研究生入学考试的学生熟悉电子信息类学科相关文献和锻炼阅读能力,对非电子类专业本科生,也是一本新颖的了解IT相关知识的读物。

UNIT 1 Microelectronics and Electronic Circuits
1-1 Introduction to Microelectronics
1-2 How Does a Logic Gate in a Microchip Work?
1-3 General Electronics Circuits
UNIT 2 Electronic Design Automation
2-1 Introduction to Configurable Computing
2-2 Cutting Critical Hardware
2-3 The Future of Configurable Computing
UNIT 3 Computer Architecture and Microprocessors
3-1 Computer Architecture
3-2 CPU Design Strategies: RISC vs. CISC
3-3 VLIW Microprocessors
Object-Oriented Program Design
UNIT 4 Information Network, Protocols and Applications
4-1 Computer Networks
4-2 TCP/IP
4-3 Internet Search Engines
UNIT 5 Information Security and Biometrics Technology
5-1 Introduction to Computer Security
5-2 Encrvption Methods
5-3 An Overview of Biometrics
UNIT 6 Digital Speech Technology
6-1 The Physics of Sound
6-2 Speech Sampling and Processing
6-3 Speaker Recognition
UNIT 7 Digital Images Processing
7-1 Representation of Images
7-2 Fundamental Concepts of Image Processing
7-3 Fingerprint Identification, Hand Geometry and Face Retrieval.
UNIT8 TVTechnology
8-1 Introduction to TV Technology
8-2 Related Technologies
8-3 HDTV
UNIT 9 Telecommunication Network
9-1 Introduction to "Communication Systems"
9-2 Telecommunications
9-3 What is CTI?
A Brief Historical Review
UNIT 10 Multimedia Technologies
10-1 Introduction to Multimedia Technology
10-2 Elements of Multimedia
10-3 Multimedia Networking and Applications
UNIT 11 Optical Fiber Communications
11-1 The Genera] System
l1-2 Advantages of Optical Fiber Communication
11-3 Historical Development
CDMA and Other Spectrum Sharing Concepts
UNIT 12 Mobile Communication
12-1 GSM
12-2 Introduction to 3G
12-3 Global Positioning System (GPS)
CDMA and Other Spectrum Sharing Concepts
UNIT 13 Artificial Intelligence Techniques and Applications
13-1 Artificial Intelligence Techniques
13-2 Expert Systems and Robotics
13-3 Development of AI
UNIT 14 Pattern Recognition Technology
14-1 Principle of Pattern Recognition
14-2 Exemplary Applications
14-3 Smart Room
UNIT 15 Neural Networks and Applications
15-1 Introduction to Neural Networks (NN)
15-2 How Neural Networks Work?
附录A 科技论文写作
A-1 科技论文的英文题目
A-1-1 题名的要求
A-1-2 题名的构成
A-1-3 题名中的词序
A-1-4 题名的副题名
A-1-5 题名书写格式
A-1-5 题名书写格式
A-2科技论文的英文摘要
A-2-l 英文摘要的内容
A-2-2英文摘要的撰写
A-3 英文摘要编写中的语法问题
A-3-l 主语和谓语的一致
A-3-2 比较
A-3-3 数的增减和倍数的表达方式
A-4重要句型结构表达
A-4-1 物体形状
A-4-2 位置
A-4-3物体结构
A-4-4测量
A-4-5 功能
A-4-6 方法
附录B 科技英语中常用符号及数学公式表达
B-1 特殊符号
B-2 分数、小数及百分比
B-3 符号与常用数学表达式
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