Circuit Cellar 293 December 2014

Issue #293
December 2014
Theme: Programmable Logic
06 : QUESTIONS & ANSWERS — DIY Interactive Robots
10 : PRODUCT NEWS
13 : CLIENT PROFILE — Racelogic, Ltd. (Buckingham, UK)
14 : Air Quality Mapper — By Raul Alvarez Torrico
22 : Frequency-Hopping System — By Israel Schneiderman, Binyamin Helman, and Yehonatan Kali
30 : Run With It: Build a Wireless Pedometer and Pace Tracker — By Ellen Chuang and Julie Wang
42 : THE CONSUMMATE ENGINEER: Essential Electromagnetic Compliance (Part 1): An Introduction to EMC — By George Novacek
46 : PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC IN PRACTICE: Experimenting with Metastability and Multiple Clocks on FPGAs — By Colin O’Flynn
52 : EMBEDDED IN THIN SLICES: Estimating Your Embedded Systems Project (Part 1): The Challenges of Planning Software Projects — By Bob Japenga
56 : THE DARKER SIDE: Do You Speak I/Q?: Tips for Taking Care of Connections — By Robert Lacoste
64 : FROM THE BENCH: Got Power?: Smart Engergy Harvesting for Small Electronic Systems — By Jeff Bachiochi
74 : CROSSWORD
75 : TEST YOUR EQ
80 : The Future of Data Center Power & Cost Management — By Annie Lane