A new book, written by Alan Mantooth, distinguished professor in the electrical engineering department at the University of Arkansas, and John Cressler, an engineering professor at Georgia Tech, was recently published by CRC Press.

The text discusses the design and use of devices, circuits and systems that are intended to operate in extreme environments.  Extreme environments include sites where electrical components face either extremely high or low temperatures, or intense radiation. Electronics that face environments such as space or here on earth in energy wells (such as oil or gas wells) face extreme conditions on a daily basis and must be designed to continue operating reliably and efficiently in these conditions.

Mantooth and Cressler discuss best practices associated with silicon-based electronics and present design and modeling techniques required to ensure robust operation of analog, digital and RF circuits and systems.  The text also features discussions of considerations for long-term reliability of electronics, electronic packaging techniques for survivability and both full-chip and multi-chip verification techniques for complex systems. 

Mantooth holds the College of Engineering’s Twenty-First Century Endowed Chair in Mixed-signal IC Design and CAD and is the director of the NSF GRid-connected Advanced Power Electronic Systems Center and the NSF Vertically Integrated Center for Transformative Energy Research, and is executive director of the National Center for Reliable Electric Power Transmission, located on the U of A campus. Cressler is the Ken Byers Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and is an IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Distinguished Lecturer.