Circuit Cellar Issue 210 January 2008-PDF

Issue #210
January 2008
Theme: Embedded Applications

TASK MANAGER—Twenty Years , by C. J. Abate, p. 4
NEW PRODUCT NEWS—edited by John Gorsky, p. 8
TEST YOUR EQ—p. 13
CROSSWORD—p. 93
Get Cooking with Embedded Linux, by Brian Senese, p. 14
INTELLIGENT ENERGY SOLUTIONS—Solar Powering the Circuit Cellar: Part 2: From the Ground Up, by Steve Ciarcia, p. 20
Cash for Code: Part 1: A Focus on Firmware, by Richard Hoptroff, p. 30
Precision Oscillator Calibrator, by Michael Griebling, p. 40
Building a Learning Remote Control, by Ben Smith, p. 50
Designing for Hostile Environments, by Monte Dalrymple, p. 60
SPECIAL FEATURE—That was Then, This is Now: Twentieth Anniversary Retrospective, by Ed Nisley, p. 68 LESSONS FROM THE TRENCHES—The C Half-Time Report, George Martin, p. 56
FROM THE BENCH—Portable Poll Server: Part 1: System Setup, by Jeff Bachiochi, p. 70
SILICON UPDATE—The Quad Squad, by Tom Cantrell, p. 78
PRIORITY INTERRUPT—Happy Twentieth Anniversary, by Steve Ciarcia, p. 96