Circuit Cellar Ink 17
October/November 1990

Table of Contents

1


Curtis Franklin, Jr.

Editor's INK

CASE is Coming

5

Reader's INK

Letters to the Editor

10

New Product News

16


Saim Ural

Functions of Complex Variables

Generating Biomorphs on Personal Computers

Fractal-like methods can create beautiful "biomorph" patterns and images.

Download: BIOMORPH.PAS COMPLEXO.PAS

24


Chris Ciarcia

Creating Fractal Images

Using the Power of Fractals for Realistic Planetary Images

Extend fractal techniques to model realistic planets and landscapes.

Download: FRACDEMO.ZIP

38


J. Conrad Hubert

Running VGA on an IBM Professional Graphics Display

You can connect affordable workstation monitors to VGA adapters with a simple hardware addition.

43


Steve Ciarcia

Multichannel Digital Voltmeter Interface

MAX134 Chip Adds High-Performance ADC to Embedded Control

An autoranging DVM interface is the first step in Ciarcia's newest building automation plans.

Download: MAX134.BAS

58


Thomas Mosteller

Control Theory for Embedded Controllers

An Introduction to the Basics of Computerized Control

Knowing how a system should work is the key to building working embedded systems.

67


Ashok Patel
Walter Banks

Using C for Embedded Control

Building a 6805-Based Darkroom Timer

A high-level language can make your development time more productive.

Download: DARKROOM.ZIP

73


Ed Nisley

Firmware Furnace

The Furnace Firmware Project, Part 3 -- Tight Code Meets the C Monster

The Furnace Firmware project continues with additions to the acquisition and display hardware.

Download: FURNACE.ZIP

82


Jeff Bachiochi

From the Bench

PC Programming Comes to Embedded Control -- V25 ... An 8088 with all the good stuff

A new processor board! Jeff shows how to build an 8088-compatible (V25-based) controller.

89


Tom Cantrell

Silicon Update

VHDL -- The End Of Hardware?

Are we looking at the end of hardware? New chips put circuit design as we know it on the endangered list.

97

Advertiser's Index

98


Scott Robert Ladd

Practical Algorithms

Around and Around We Go ...

Is recursion or iteration the way to go when you need to QuickSort your data?

100

The Second Circuit Cellar INK Design Contest Winners

104


Ken Davidson

ConnecTime -- Excerpts from the Circuit Cellar BBS

112


Steve Ciarcia

Steve's Own INK

A Computer is A Computer

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