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Table of Contents
Task
Manager
Something
for Everyone,
by Jennifer Huber
Priority
Interrupt
The
Personal Touch,
by Steve Ciarcia
New
Product News,
edited by John Gorsky
Internet-Connected
Display System
Jeremy
Baugher & Stephen Fenwick
Zilog 2004 Flash Nets Cash Design Contest Winner
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available
Jeremy
and Stephen use their Voyeur system to display textual
content from the Internet. The compact system, which
is extremely easy to mount on a wall, features an
eZ80F91 microcontroller and a Noritake 2 × 20 CU20029ECPB
display. p. 10
Keywords:
Internet, text, display, VFD, eZ80F91, eZ80Acclaim!,
network, Ethernet
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Article —
Electronic
Scarecrow
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by Richard
Wotiz
Freescale
Wireless Design Challenge Winner
Richard’s
Electronic Scarecrow keeps animals from foraging
for food in backyard gardens. It includes
four remote stations designed around MC13192
SARD boards. When an animal is detected, the
system generates loud sounds and runs water
sprinklers to scare it away. p. 18
Keywords:
Scarecrow, MC13192, SARD, animal, RF, wireless,
accelerometer, MC33794, e-field, SMAC, X10
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Low-Cost
EKG Pulsometer
Serhiy
Matviyenko
Healthcare
professionals use expensive high-tech pulsometers
to monitor their patients’ pulse rates. You can
use Serhiy’s low-cost EKG pulsometer for a variety
of medical, sports, and home appliance applications.
You won’t miss a beat with this CY8C27443-based
system. p. 28
Keywords:
EKG, pulsometer, CY8C27443, PSoC, pulse,
amplifier
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Third
Generation Rabbit
A
Look at the Rabbit 4000
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by Monte
Dalrymple
You’ve
used Rabbit 2000 and 3000 microprocessors.
Now it’s time to get familiar with the Rabbit
4000, the newest addition to the Rabbit line
of low-EMI microprocessors. According to Monte,
the new design includes several exciting features
that will enable you to take your communications,
embedded control, and Ethernet connectivity
applications to the next level. p. 35
Keywords:
Rabbit 4000, architecture, registers,
instruction set, bus speed, debug, timer,
Ethernet, DMA
Sponsored
by: Rabbit Semiconductor
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Watchdog
Supervisory System
David
Gamble & Andrew Smallridge
It’s
now possible to increase the availability of a remote
data system without hooking into the system’s internals.
David and Andrew’s PIC18F452 microcontroller-based
watchdog supervisor system does the trick. p.
43
Keywords:
Watchdog, PIC18F452, EdiSol, data collection, supervisor,
laptop, CDMA, Delphi
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Portable
Web Server
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by Lindsay
Meek
Renesas
M16C Design Contest 2005 Entry
Host
your web site the embedded way. No server
PC required. Lindsay shows you how to build
an M32C/84-based portable web server. p.
51
Keywords:
Web server, M32C/84, CompactFlash, protocol
stack, dynamic DNS
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Internet-Connected
Sonic Anemometer
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it now!
by Ingo
Cyliax
Ingo’s Internet-based sonic anemometer gauges
wind velocities by measuring the speed of
sound in air. Read on to learn how the system
works. Ingo has included all the information
you need to get started on an anemometer of
your own. p. 56
Keywords:
Anemometer, sonic,
Internet, lidar, pitot, ultrasonic, RCM3000,
SX28/20
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Advanced
System for Vehicle Back Up
Rangefinder
and Video Display System Aids Drivers
Victor
Lick
Victor built a PIC18F2320-based, distance-measuring
video system so his friend could safely back his
truck up to his RV trailer. After a Parallax PING)))
ultrasonic ranger measures the distance between
the truck and the trailer, the system displays the
data on a small monitor.
p.62
Keywords:
Rangefinder, vehicle, PIC18F2320, PING))), ultrasonic,
distance, measurement, video, EL1881
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SILICON
UPDATE
Hot Enough for You?
Tom Cantrell
Once again, Tom was our eyes and ears at the annual
Hot Chips conference in Silicon Valley. This month
he reports on the proceedings and covers such hot
topics as power density crises and parallelism.
p. 70
Keywords:
Hot Chips, power, dual-core,
Cell processor, parallelism, video, optical networking,
ADC
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FROM
THE BENCH
Regulator Review
Jeff Bachiochi
New regulator modules are in line to replace trusty
old 1-A linear regulators. Are you ready to bring
these newbies to your bench? Read on for Jeff’s
comprehensive review. p. 76
Keywords:
Regulators, PT5100, step down, switching,
ISR, heat, linear
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APPLIED
PCs
ARM Applications with MicroBolt
Fred
Eady
If
you have an industrial application in the works,
take a look at Micromint’s MicroBolt—a Philips LPC2106
microcontroller-based embedded controller. You can
program the small module in C or assembly language.
Fred shows you how to get started. p. 80
Keywords:
MicroBolt, LPC2106, JTAG, flash, UART, PWM, clock,
compiler, ICCV7, debug
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Crossword
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PREVIEW
February #187
Embedded
Programming
Embedded
Object-Oriented Programming
Dial-Tone
Decoder
LoonBoard Unified Bootloader
Rooting Around: Integer Square Roots on Small
Processors
Output
Real Numbers
Number Crunching on a Budget: Custom PIC MCU
Solution Trumps PC
Simple Voice Changer
Multifunctional Home Control System
ABOVE THE GROUND PLANE
Sampled Data Bandwidth: Filtering
APPLIED PCs
Discover True 16-Bit Functionality:
Explorer 16 Offers Welcome Flexibility
FROM THE BENCH
Power Over Ethernet Primer
SILICON UPDATE
Something Old, Something New
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