Circuit Cellar 432 July 2026 (PDF)

Issue #432
July 2026
AIRBORNE SENSORS

4 IoT Infrastructure On-Premises Deployment or Cloud Solution?
By Ignacio Siccardi

8 WWVB Timecode Generator A Tool for Testing Radio-Controlled Clocks
By Robert Stewart

16 Rust: An Embedded Lightning Rod Nothing Is Quite as It Seems
By Tam Hanna

24 Designing Fail-Safe Contactor Drivers for Motor Start Circuits
By Faisal Mahmood

28 Introduction to Radar Systems
Part 1: Understanding Radio Detection and Ranging
By Tony Hanna

34 TECHNOLOGY FEATURE Airborne Sensors Architectures, Timing, and What Really Flies
By Curtis Franklin

DATASHEET
40 MCUs MCUs at the Heart of the Edge Modern MCUs Go Beyond Simple Process Control
By Curtis Franklin

44 Embedded System Essentials The Tireless Intern: LLM Coding Agents for Embedded Work Using AI Speeds Security Tooling
By Colin O'Flynn

48 Picking Up Mixed Signals Blues Latest IoT Modules Notecard for Skylo and Notecarrier CX
By Brain Millier

TECH THE FUTURE
63 The Future of the Ultimate User Experience Signal-to-Noise Ratio for Voice Activity Detection Devices How to Design in VADl
By Emil Garnell and Bruno Flament