Table of Contents
Task Manager
Reduce the Risk, by C.J. Abate
Priority Interrupt
In Your Opinion, by Steve Ciarcia
New Product News, edited by John Gorsky
Video 13
Build a Simple TV Interface
Dale Wheat
Need a simple
TV interface? Dale’s inexpensive circuit makes a
great six-line by 10-character monochrome ASCII
display. p. 12
Keywords: Video, TV, ASCII, ATtiny13, PWM, timing,
STK500
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—Feature
Article —
Generate Video from
Software
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Read
it now!
by René Geraets
René uses an
M16C/62P microcontroller to generate video
signals without dedicated video hardware.
The M16C/62P also produces a PAL or NTSC analog
RGB color video signal. p. 24
Keywords: Video,
software, M16C/62P, PAL, NTSC, resolution,
memory, DMA |
Drive a Color STN Display
Dejan Durdenic
Why add push
buttons to an application when you can easily design
in a touchscreen? Check out Dejan’s QVGA eight-color
LCD controller. The C8051F120-based system features
touchscreen support. p. 30
Keywords: LCD, STN, color, C8051F120, touchscreen,
QVGA, F-51900NCU-FW-ACN-V365
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LED Message Display
Peter Gibbs & Ramon Sargeant
You don’t need
to spend thousands of dollars on a commercial display
system. Peter and Ramon describe how to build an
Internet-based LED display of virtually any size. p. 40
Keywords: LED, Internet, display system, PIC18F4620,
RTL8019AS, controller, LCD, PIC18F252, MAX6952,
DHCP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, NetBIOS, SMB
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Power Generator for Portable Applications
Dhananjay Gadre
Battery-less
LED flashlights have become quite popular because
they offer a perpetual source of power. After studying
how LED flashlights work, Dhananjay built a hand-held
power generator for portable electronic applications. p. 52
Keywords: Power Generator, muscle power, Faraday,
DC/DC converter, slide tube, shake, MAX756, supercapacitor
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ABOVE THE GROUND PLANE
DIY Diodes
Ed Nisley
Diodes started
with do-it-yourself technology. Ed describes how
those early diodes worked and explains how natural
diodes can cause RF problems. p. 56
Keywords: Diode, mineral lump, crystal, RF, op-amp, LF411,
negative resistance
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Power Over Ethernet Solutions
Eddie Insam
Powering devices
over Ethernet cabling seems easy, but there’s more
to it than meets the eye. Eddie explains how it
all works. p. 60
Keywords: Power over Ethernet, PoE, IEEE 802.3af,
power supply, MagJack, Bob Smith termination, powered
device, power sourcing equipment, midspan feed unit,
DWL-P50, LTC4257, LM507x, HV110, TPS2370
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APPLIED PCs
Advanced the USB Protocol Sniffer
Fred Eady
If you’re serious
about USB development, you need the right tools
for designing and debugging. One such tool is the
Ellisys USB Explorer 200, which is a high-speed
USB 2.0 protocol analyzer that Fred recently put
to work. p. 68
Keywords: USB, sniffer, USB Explorer 200, PICDEM-FS, PIC18F4550
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FROM THE BENCH
Accessing the USB Framework
A Quick Transition from UART to USB
Jeff Bachiochi
Microchip Technology has integrated USB
hardware into some of its microcontrollers. Fortunately,
designers can use a USB framework written in C to
handle all of the tedious USB routines. Read on
to learn how to transition from UART to USB. p.
74
Keywords: USB, UART,
software framework, PICDEM FS, PIC18F4550, SPI dongle,
Liberty BASIC
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SILICON UPDATE
ARM Twister
Tom Cantrell
Are you ready for a new chapter in the ARM story?
It’s all about Atmel’s AVR32 “RISC MCU.” Tom takes
you between the lines. p. 80
Keywords: ARM, AVR32,
AT32AP7000, pipeline, ALU, DMA, MMU, OCD, clock,
development kit, Linux
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Crossword
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Embedded Development
USB Flash PIC Programmer
Smart Probing: An R5F2113-Based Moritoring System
Electronic Gear Control: Add Electronic
Gears to a Metal Lathe
Low-Cost Gas Leak Detector
Open-Sourse AVR Development
TV-Based Osciloscope
Control Panel Design: Implement a moudlar Physical User Interface System
APPLIED PCs Stand-Alone
Ethernet Control
FROM THE BENCH Smart Character
Display: MCU-Based Information Messaging Made
Simple
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