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buses, input/output (I/O),
hardware/software, 121
103–104
235, 239, 247
communications, 21–22, 102,
encoding/decoding in, 229
bytes, 89–90 commercial off the shelf (COTS) Eb/No curves in, 234–236,
221–274 encryption and, 266–269
C 10BT/100BT/1000BT energy and power supplies
standards for, baseband,
cable networks, 271–272 in, 175
232, 272 error control in (See also error
cabling, interference and,
Aloha type systems, 261 control), 238–257
142–143 amplitude shift keying (ASK)
cache memory, 95–98 error distribution in, 240
in, 233, 236 eye patterns and "open eye" in,
carbon fiber, 283 bandwidth allocation for, 228, 238–239, 239
carrier signals, 233 252–254, 258–259 forward error correction (FEC)
caution, in control systems
bandwidth limited, in, 248
design, 57–58 254–256, 256
central control systems, 24 baseband transmission in, Fourier transforms for
compression in, 265–266
central processing unit 228–232
(CPU), 88 bidirectional channels in, 241 frequency allocation/separation
centralization of energy code, bit error rate (BER) in, in, 262
161–162 234–236, 235, 239 frequency division shared
channel tuning in, 246–247 broadcasting, 273–274 access systems in, 262
channels, 250, 251–252 cable networks in, 271–272 frequency shift keying (FSK)
characteristic differential carrier signals in, 233 in, 234
equation, for control systems, channel tuning in, 246–247 global positioning system
37–39 channels in, 251–252 (GPS), 82
characterizing robot checksums, block checksums Huffman compression in, 266
performance and altering in, 241–244 information signal in, 233
control system design, 41–48 closed system, 260 infrared, 107
charge level, batteries and, 165 code division multiple access interleaver/deinterleaver in,
checklist in project (CDMA) in, 246, 263–264 250, 252, 257
management, 16 code division shared access Internet and, 82
checksums, 241–244 systems in, 262–264 Internet protocol (IP) in, 82
IP type, 243 compression in, 265–266 intersymbol interference (ISI)
polynomial, 243 concatenated codes in, in, 230–231, 230, 231, 262
Reed-Solomon, 244–245 248–252, 249 jamming in, 228
clock time, and energy and convolutional codes in, load limits for, 260
power supplies, 171–173, 172 250, 252 local area network (LAN), 82,
closed loop control systems (See cooperative user, 260 102, 105–108, 272
also control systems), 26–39, data density in, 229 modems in, 271
26, 47–48, 48 defining communications role modulation in, 232–238
closed system and purpose, 221–223 modulator/demodulator in,
communications, 260 delays in, 259 250, 251–252
code division multiple access demodulators for, 236–238 nonreturn to zero (NRZ) codes
(CDMA), 246, 263–264 direct current (DC) balance in, 229
code division shared access in, 229 open loop control system, 25
systems, 262–264 distortion in, 262 Open Systems Interconnection
coefficient of friction, in control distributed control system, 23 (OSI) layered model for
systems, 41, 45 distribution of errors in, 240 networks in, 224–228
coefficient test, in FIR downloading times and, 91 parity bits in, 244
filters, 216 duplicate or redundant data phase shift keying (PSK)
column address select (CAS), 95 transmission in, 239, 240 in, 234