Circuit Cellar Ink 79
February 1997

Table of Contents

2 Ken Davidson	Task Manager Gloom and Doom?
6	Reader I/O Letters to the Editor
8 Harv Weiner	New Product News
14 Bill Payne	A Networking Primer Part 1: The Network and Its Components Networking is essential in today's computing environment. Bill takes the time to bring us all up to speed on the basic components of networking. Here, he focuses on networking evolution and concepts.
20 Richard Ames	TCP/IP in Embedded Systems Transferring data between computers via TCP/IP extends beyond mainframes and desktops into the embedded world. Richard examines the layers of this protocol to see how data passes through the various systems.
26 Jim Butler	BACnet An Object-Oriented Network Protocol for Monitoring and Distributed Control BACnet, unlike Ethernet or TCP/IP, focuses on the structure of the data communicated. Geared for industrial building systems, this standard offers functionality within a device via objects and services.
34 Paul Paglia	Getting Pumped DC-to-DC Charge-Pump Converters If you decide to use a switch-mode power supply in a design, you need to know about DC-to-DC converter theory. It helps you make the best design choices and to eliminate unnecessary EMI.
40 Joe DiBartolomeo	MicroSeries Standards for Electromagnetic Compliance Testing, Part 1: Introducing Concepts and Standards (Part 1 of 4) According to Joe, the better designers understand FCC and European regulations of EMI and EMC, the more time and money they save. Find out what you've been missing.
Embedded PC 50 Harv Weiner	Nouveau PC
Embedded PC 55 Chris Arndt	Life in the S.L.O Lane San Luis Obispo's Utility Distributed-Control Program Here's a practical hands-on example of embedded PCs doing their thing. San Luis Obispo uses embedded PCs to manage its water and wastewater utilities. Smart remote computers coordinate with a central system to monitor parameters.
Embedded PC 61 Paul Beam	A Lever and a Place to Stand Controlling the World with the Internet Archimedes wanted to move the world, Atlas held it up, and you -- what do you want to do? If it's to have your computers remotely access all I/O ports on a server, here's how. Paul shows how WinSock brings global access. Download: IOSERVER.ZIP
Embedded PC 67 Derek Seward Stephen Quayle	PC/104 Quarter LUCIE: Lancaster University Computerized Intelligent Excavator Using three PC/104 embedded computers, LUCIE makes the intelligent decisions of a human operator. Route planning, priorities, navigation, depth alterations, safety considerations -- all are part of how LUCIE digs a trench.
Embedded PC 74 Fred Eady	Applied PCs A Sweet Solution: Networking Embedded and Desktop PCs Using QNX This month, Fred turns matchmaker. Teknor's VIPer and a desktop PC meet QNX and 10BaseT. It was love at first sight. Each machine's memory, drive, and port resources became part of the other. Oh! To find such a catch.
82 Jeff Bachiochi	From the Bench Unconventional Access Sometimes you inherit a project and you can't get to the code. If that's your situation, then Jeff has a BUD for you. No, not the kind you drink. He offers a BASIC untokenizing device. Pop this one open, and pretty soon, you'll be in business. Download: ftb79.ZIP
86 Tom Cantrell	Silicon Update Radar Love It's not just little boys that ogle over the idea of X-ray specs. After Tom gives you the full scoop, you will, too. They work like any motion or proximity detector, except they see through walls, ice, solid objects...
81	Advertiser's Index
90 Ken Davidson	ConnecTime -- Excerpts from the Circuit Cellar BBS
104 Steve Ciarcia	Priority Interrupt When It Costs Nothing, What's It Worth?

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