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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Organizing committee -- Boundary control of Boost three-level converters -- Analysis of the three-paralleled-connected switched-inductor boost converter -- Research on chaos characteristic of sound wave interactions in marine medium -- Improvement and simulation of DV-HOP localization algorithm in wireless sensor networks -- Eddy current loss analysis for half-speed large turbine generator -- The design and research of wafer-type tester based on microprocessor -- Design and implementation of SPI flash controller based on Xilinx FPGA -- The current-voltage characteristics of zinc phthalocyanine organic thin film transistor -- Design and implementation of 8-bit MCU based on triple levels pipeline structure -- The operating characteristics measurements and analysis of CuPc thin film transistor -- Research on the technology of static type induction heating -- Analysis of static operating characteristics and potential distribution of the CuPc-OSIT using finite element method -- Design on virtual experiment system for communication principle based on LabVIEW -- Analysis of the working mechanism of organic static induction transistor -- The photoelectric characteristics of vertical organic thin-film transistor -- Design of ZigBee-based athletes pulse detection system -- The design and implementation based on the Android platform of business process management system -- The report based on OFDM power line communications system simulation platform -- Numerical analysis of the electric potential distribution of two dimension in the conductive channel of organic static induction transistor -- The optimization of CAN communication network in automobiles -- Design and implementation of 16-bit high speed fixed-point multiplier based on FPGA -- FPGA implementation of the parallel CRC module in vehicular ad hoc networks -- Optimization design of SDRAM controller based on FPGA in network-processor system -- The numerical analyze the change of gate length for the influence of organic static induction transistor potential distribution inside the conducting channel -- Motion characteristics of water droplet under AC and DC electric field -- A greenhouse seedling control system based on PLC and HMI -- Design of support vector machine recognizer based on single chip microcomputer -- Call identification and interception system based on STC MCU -- Design of fuzzy PID controller based on FPGA -- The affection of different rotor structures on starting and operating performance in U-type single phase permanent magnet synchronous motor…”