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The author is based in the UK and gives a provincial view on their home security industry. Very little is given on suppliers, components, and systems based in the States. I'd highly recommend going to a Honeywell affiliated website ADILink dot com for the security products in the US. You have to register to get pricing.

Though what she goes into is in detail and gives both pluses and minus and discusses component alternatives with diagrams, tables, and drawings. Where she falls downs in is the control box or panel. There is only a light discussion on the alarm controller in Chap 9 in one page. She relies on Chap 13 which covers the British Stds, BS 4737, on alarm systems, some 9 pages worth of specs-not really useful info for the systems designer or installer.

Furthermore, her Chap 14 covers a SureGuard alarm system complete with circuits with transistors, diodes, capacitors, switches, and power transformers. Certainly she doesn't expect a home owner to build this! Evidently this is not available in commercially or in a kit form. Her final chapter is on smoke detectors and fire extinguishers. I read this book at the local library.

I started a job as a technical writer at a semiconductor company in April, 2002. A couple weeks later, I bought this book because I didn't totally understand what the industry was all about. It has really taught me everything I needed to know about the semiconductor industry, and the role my company's products play in it.

The reason I give it 4 stars is because at one (early) point the book says "this is the hardest math in this book," which just isn't true. However, anyone who passed high school algebra 2 will be able to do the rest of the math in the book, or you can skip it if you're not looking for a math/science lesson.

If you are learning about semiconductors for a job, or you are starting an academic program in semiconductor engineering, this is a terrific book. I don't know if experienced engineers will find it useful, as I'm not an experienced engineer. Every new tech writer to come into the company has also borrowed this book during the first couple of weeks, just to help them get into the swing of things.

In earlier books by Chandler that I liked very much, such as Strategy & Structure and The Visible Hand, historical narrative took precedence over facts and figures. Epic stories were told, and individual biography was subordinated to broader historical developments. In this book, I felt the balance tilted the other way: I found myself fighting to concentrate on the story, while wading through very specific details that I quickly forgot as I moved onto the next company history.

Chandler has certainly done his homework. In the Preface, he notes his limited technical knowledge of the consumer electronics and computer industries, but one would never guess that from the adept way he handles technical terms and explains the significance of various innovations. With many tables in the text and more in the appendix, Chandler convincingly documents his story.

It is a simple one: firms that came to dominate their industries did so by being first movers that established integrated learning bases, based on technical, functional or managerial knowledge. They thus gained economies of scale and scope (another concept that Chandler has contributed to the business history literature), obtained a critical head start, and successfully beat back most entrepreneurial startups. In consumer electronics, a handful of Japanese firms built on their initial advantages to not only dominate world markets but also to destroy domestic producers in the U.S. In computers, however, IBM built a lead it never relinquished, even though it was repeatedly challenged by European and Japanese firms.

Chandler noted, with obvious relish, that top executives in many firms engaged in short-sighted strategies that eventually brought them down. For example, RCA created many innovations that it licensed to the Japanese firms that ultimately destroyed it. Indeed, perhaps the major benefit of including so many detailed company histories is that they remind us of just how wrong so many excutives have been!

If you know little about the history of these two industries, Chandler's book will give you an excellent overview. If you are familiar with them, you can still appreciate Chandler's skill in conveying the international comparative context for their evolution in the 20th century. In his provocative conclusion, Chandler asks whether the Japanese firms, with their strong integrated learning bases and dominance of consumer electronics, will ultimately triumph in the struggle for control of the world's information technology industries.

This is a Japanese part of the series dealing with Asian electronics industry from Korean, Taiwan, Chinese, and Singapore. Asian economies excel at electronics and IT industries. You must have at least one product made in that area. It¡¯s no wonder that there has been a flood of books on the electronics industry of those economies. The Japanese one, in particular, has been the centre of attention for its spectacular performance. Nobody hasn¡¯t heard of the brand names like SONY, Toshiba, or Panasonic. But most interests are directed to the secret formulae of their success stories or the devastating impacts on their domestic industries of US or Europe. There are rare cases of impartial and comprehensive mappings. This book is intended to plug this gap. This book is neither academic works nor impression-driven journalistic sketch, but is intent on informing basic facts and instilling the outlook of the industry in the readers. In doing so, this book begins from basic features of Japan in general, the overview of Japanese economy, the share of the industry in the overall economy and the history of the industry, to the present of the industry. Their presentation of the industry is loaded with statistic and cases of individual companies. Authors do their best to provide readers the concrete image of the industry. Sure, the writing style is bound to be dry and, at worse, boring. But this book is the good enough step to begin with.

William H. Mott IV takes us into the world of Satellite communications with an effective, business-like approach; so don't expect to be taken away by beautiful language, however, Mr. Mott IV gets the job done in any case.

The reader is given a slam-dunk course in Satellites 101 going through the types of satellite, stakeholders, national powers in the space, applications, economics, challenges, developments, and provides some foresight. But do not expect to find out what satellite service you should be investing in; that is not the purpose of this book.

If you have in interest in learning more about satellite technology and want to learn about how it might solve some of communication's problems, you will find it in this book.

I'm actually an analyst of the telecom industry, so I come to this with a special interest. Nonetheless, I would highly recommend the book for those interested in some real foundations to understand the communications revolution. (and not just sound-byte Internet history). It's a pity that the name Lucent Technologies isn't in the title, because that's the real subject of the book. It's a history of Western Electric, which after a 120 year "pit stop" at AT&T ultimately spun out to become Lucent. The best part is the early chapters where we learn about the competition between the telegraph and Bell's telephone, the coalescing of local telephone companies under Bell's leadership, and ultimately the emergence of AT&T (with Western Electric)as the "Bell System" that most of us grew up with. Don't be put off by the fact that Lucent commissioned the book. It's a throughly documented, balanced, and obviously professional undertaking.

These book is very intesresting, because have to introduction for these devices

A comprehensive history of Radio Corporation of America, from its formation in 1919 to its pending merger with General Electric in 1986. The CED VideoDisc system is only briefly discussed towards the end of the book, but this book puts it in the perspective of the corporation as a whole.

A book by two academics based on some very solid research into the US alarm business. An excellent book worth reading by anyone interested in the US security industry. It highlights opportunities for alarm companies and manufacturers based on the real needs of consumers, as well as discussing some of the threats the industry faces. Includes data from interviews with professional burglars as well as survey data.

This is a good book for people pursuing a profession in ASIC design. Gives you an overview of the entire design cycle in ASICs. The book guides you through the practicle aspects of, taking an idea to a fabricated chip. The books treatment about design implementations and common mistakes in ASIC design, makes it a good reference manual for engineers. A must for ASIC engineers and people who wish to get into ASICs.