Circuit Cellar Issue 225 April 2009-PDF

Issue #225
April 2009
Theme: Embedded Programming

TASK MANAGER—Troubleshooters, Unite!, by C. J. Abate
PRIORITY INTERRUPT—Print Is Dead—Long Live Print, by Steve Ciarcia
NEW PRODUCT NEWS, edited by John Gorsky
Construct a USB GPIO Pod (Part 1): No Parallel Port, No Problem, by DJ Delorie, p. 16
Robot Navigation and Control (Part 2): Software Development, by Guido Ottaviani, p. 30
Digital Decoding, Decode Periodic Signal Transmissions, by Danilo Consonni, p. 40
INTELLIGENT ENERGY SOLUTIONS — ABOVE THE GROUND PLANE – Solar Data Logger (Part 1): PCB Layout, Inductor Saturation, and Other Troubles, by Ed Nisley, p. 24
THE DARKER SIDE—Time Domain Reflectometry: Detect and Measure Impedance Mismatches, by Robert Lacoste, p. 50
FROM THE BENCH—Programmable Robotics (Part 2): Application Development, by Jeff Bachiochi, p. 58
SILICON UPDATE—ZSTAR Trek: A Healthy Mix of MCUs, Sensors, and Wireless Technology, by Tom Cantrell, p. 66
BONUS FEATURE ARTICLE—Time-Triggered Systems (Part 1): Co-Operative Schedulers 101, by Michael Smith