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VI CONTENTS
Chapter 4 Reliability, Safety, and Compliance
Reliability 123
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Safety 128
Environmental Considerations 132
Common Sense 135
Emissions 138
Quality Issues 143
Testing 144
Chapter 5 Design Steps: HLD 147
Power 147
Locomotion 148
Automation 148
Chapter 6 Energy and Power Systems 153
Energy 154
Energy Sources 157
Chapter 7 Energy Control and Software 159
Considerations 159
Energy Conservation 162
Hardware Considerations 164
Spy-hopping 176
Software Considerations for Energy Control 178
Mechanical Considerations: Software for Energy Control 183
Chapter 8 Digital Signal Processing (DSP) 191
The Nyquist-Shannon Sampling Theorem 192
A/D Conversion 198
A/D Dithering 200
Sample and Hold (S/H) 201
Antialias Filters 201
D/A Effects: Sinc Compensation 207
DSP Filter Design 208
