Circuit Cellar Issue 246 January 2011-PDF

Issue #246
January 2011
Theme: Embedded Applications

TASK MANAGER— Circuit Cellar International, by C. J. Abate, p. 4
NEW PRODUCT NEWS—edited by John Gorsky, p. 9
TEST YOUR EQ—p. 15
CROSSWORD—p. 74
WIZnet IMCU 2010 Results, p.16
Bicycle ABS Brake System, by Richard Wotiz, p. 24
Mobile Application Development (Part 2): A Sound-Detection Algorithm, by Riley Kotchorek, Mike Smith, & Vahid Garousi, p. 36
Stress-Free Probing, by Don McLane, p. 48
THE CONSUMMATE ENGINEER— Surge Suppression: Tips and Tools for Protecting Circuitry, by George Novacek, p. 20
LESSONS FROM THE TRENCHES—Big Changes in the Embedded World (Part 2): Implement an RTOS and a Real SPI, By George Martin, p. 52
FROM THE BENCH— Smart Network Access Point, by Jeff Bachiochi, p. 58
SILICON UPDATE— Power Tripping: Energy Conservation on the Embedded Level, by Tom Cantrell, p. 66
PRIORITY INTERRUPT— Second-Life Computing, by Steve Ciarcia, p. 80