Circuit Cellar Issue 233 December 2009-PDF

Issue #233
December 2009
Theme: Programmable Logic

TASK MANAGER—Looking Back While Moving Forward, by C. J. Abate, p. 4
NEW PRODUCT NEWS—edited by John Gorsky, p. 8
CROSSWORD—p. 74
iMCU W7100: Embedded Networking Made Simple, 2010 WIZnet iMCU Design Contest Primer, by Dave Tweed, p. 14
Retrocomputing on an FPGA: Reconstruct an '80s-Era Home computer with Programmable Logic, by Stephen A. Edwards, p. 24
Building Microprogrammed Machines with FPGAs, by Thomas Mitchell, p. 36
ABOVE THE GROUND PLANE—Memories Are Not Forever, by Ed Nisley, p. 44
THE DARKER SIDE—Digital Modulations Demystified, by Robert Lacoste, p.54
FROM THE BENCH—Extend and Isolate the I2C Bus, by Jeff Bachiochi, p. 64
SILICON UPDATE—IP Unplugged, by Tom Cantrell, p. 70
PRIORITY INTERRUPT—Home Automation: Everything and Nothing, by Steve Ciarcia, p. 80
BONUS FEATURE ARTICLE—The Evolution of Rabbits: Five Generations of Rabbit Microprocessors, by Monte Dalrymple