Circuit Cellar Issue 242 September 2010-PDF

Issue #242 September 2010 Theme: Data Acquisition

TASK MANAGER— Design Inspiration, by C. J. Abate, p. 4
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS— Interdisciplinary Engineering & Research: An Interview with Bruce Land, by C. J. Abate, p. 18
NEW PRODUCT NEWS—edited by John Gorsky, p. 8
TEST YOUR EQ—p. 17 CROSSWORD—p. 74
Precision Temperature Control Circuitry, by David Ludington, p. 26
Mesh Telephony System: The Mesh Potato Project from an Embedded Designer’s POV, by David Rowe, p. 36
NXP mbed Design Challenge 2010 Primer: Rapid Prototyping: Build a Scrolling LED Message Board with an mbed/NXP LPC Platform, by Clemens Valens, p. 44
THE CONSUMMATE ENGINEER—Is the Door Closed?: Why Every Safety-Critical Decision Matters, by George Novacek, p. 22
LESSONS FROM THE TRENCHES—State Machines Revisited: Real-World Word Problems, by George Martin, p.
50 FROM THE BENCH—Transmit and Decode Data: Design and Implement a Keyfob Decoder, by Jeff Bachiochi, p. 56
SILICON UPDATE—Once More, With Feeling: An MCU + FPGA Without the Compromises, by Tom Cantrell, p. 64
PRIORITY INTERRUPT—Mobile Metamorphosis, by Steve Ciarcia, p. 80