Circuit Cellar Issue 171 October 2004-PDF

ISSUE 171
October 2004
Theme: Data Acquisition

TASK MANAGER Redesigned to Impress, by Jennifer Huber, p. 4
NEW PRODUCT NEWS, edited by John Gorsky, p. 8
TEST YOUR EQ, by David Tweed, p. 11
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, by Charlie Krauter, p. 12
E-Field Serial Touchpad, by Erwin Saavedra , p. 26
Pseudo-Random Noise Theory and Applications, by Shlomo Engelberg and Haim Benjamin, p. 32
ABOVE THE GROUND PLANE Stepper Drive (Part 2): Digital, by Ed Nisley, p. 36
APPLIED PCs Big PICs, by Fred Eady, p. 40
FROM THE BENCH Digital Radio Control, by Jeff Bachiochi, p. 48
Single-Board Logic Analyzer, by Larry Cicchinelli, p.54
Intelligent Sensor Head, by Andrew Smallridge, p. 60
SILICON UPDATE Try Hard with a Vengeance, by Tom Cantrell, p. 70
Telephone Message Watchdog: An Intelligent Call-Forwarding System, by Jingxi Zhang, Yang Zhang,
and Huifang Ni, p. 76
PRIORITY INTERRUPT The Collegiate Challenge, by Steve Ciarcia, p. 96