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PiTech Magazine: A view into The Technology of the IIT Community

Issue 1: May 2005
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Issue 5: October 2009
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Books Available for Online Purchase

Verilog HDL: A Guide to Digital Design and Synthesis
Written for both experienced and new users, this book gives you broad coverage of VerilogHDL. The book stresses the practical design and verification perspective of Verilog rather than emphasizing only the language aspects.
Verilog HDL
Samir Palnitkar (IITK '90 EE)
Design Verification with E
As part of the Modern Semiconductor Design series, this book details a broad range of e-based topics including modeling, constraint-driven test generation, functional coverage and assertion checking.
Design Verification with e
Samir Palnitkar (IITK '90 EE)
Architecture Design for Soft Errors
Books by architecture leaders in major companies are few and far between. Written from the viewpoint of a working engineer, this book describes sources of soft errors and solutions involving device, logic, and architecture design to reduce the effects of soft errors. - Max Baron, Microprocessor Report.
Architecture Design for Soft Errors
Dr. Shubu Mukherjee (IITK '91 CS)
Monastery, Sanctuary, Laboratory: 50 years of IIT-Bombay
This book chronicles the first five decades of IIT Bombay and tracks IIT Bombay's journey from its earliest days to the present in the form of a narrative history. Monastery, Sanctuary, Laboratory draws liberally upon the accounts of those who have seen the Institute grow at first hand. It uncovers the people and processes that brought IIT-Bombay into being and nurtured it in its nascent days.
Monastery
Rohit Manchanda (Sep 2008)
An Eye for Excellence: Fifty Innovative Years of IIT Kanpur
An inspiring chronicle of how a newly established institution - the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur - achieved pre-eminence in a short period of time.
Book 50 Years
Prof. E. C. Subbatao
IIT: India's Intellectual Treasures
This coffee-table book by Suvarna Rajguru & Ranjan Pant is a behind the scenes look at the IITs. The book and the companion documentary highlight the history and evolution of the IITs and the contributions of its graduates.
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Suvarna Rajguru & Ranjan Pant

 

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The IITians: The Story of a Remarkable Indian Institution and How its Alumni Are Reshaping the World
Reviewed in LiveMint from the Wall Street Journal, 2007.

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Sandipan Deb
History of Roorkee University
"A very useful document which will be appreciated more and more as 'present' becomes 'history'", in the words of Jai Krishna.
Roorkee, History of
K. V. Mital
History of Thomason College of Engineering
"In India today there are many institutes of engineering or technology of standards comparable to Roorkee, but there are few of comparable history, many which turn out a large number of scientists and engineers, but few which leave such an abiding sentiment in their hearts" by K. V. Mital
Thomason College of Engineering, History of
K. V. Mital 		 

 

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