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Current Issue <script language=JavaScript src=http://www.circuitcellar.com/absolutebmxe/abm.asp?z=1></script> Issue #217 August 2008 - Embedded Development

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Feature articles <script language=JavaScript src=http://www.circuitcellar.com/absolutebmxe/abm.asp?z=12></script> <script language=JavaScript src=http://www.circuitcellar.com/absolutebmxe/abm.asp?z=11></script> ◊ The DMX Portal: Obtain Lighting Control Via Ethernet
◊ INTELLIGENT ENERGY SOLUTIONS Electric Vehicle Inverter Design: Build A System For Powering AC Induction Motors
◊ A Bootloader For Blackfin
◊ PSoC Design Techniques (Part 2): Add DSP Effects, A User Interface, And More
◊ Create A USB Virtual COM Port

COLUMNS
◊ THE DARKER SIDE Direct Digital Synthesis 101
◊ ABOVE THE GROUND PLANE IR Proximity Sensing
◊ FROM THE BENCH Water War Prevention: An MCU-Based Monitor For A Communal Well
◊ SILICON UPDATE Icy Hot: The Soft-Core Concept, FPGAs, and You

Priority Interrupt <script language=JavaScript src=http://www.circuitcellar.com/absolutebmxe/abm.asp?z=5></script> Steve Ciarcia A Reactive Necessity
by Steve Ciarcia

I don’t know how we got started on this conversation at the party last night, but we were all sitting around the fire pit and the subject of sports obsessions came up. Almost all of the wives started describing the various lifestyle accommodations they had to deal with during the baseball, basketball, and football seasons. Sympathy was offered to those dealing with multiple sports or seasons that never seemed to end. There was an almost unanimous opinion among the wives that their husbands were absent a good deal of the time fulfilling various obsessions.... Read it now!

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