Circuit Cellar Ink 86
September 1997

Table of Contents

2 Ken Davidson	Task Manager Digital TV Now
6 Harv Weiner	New Product News
10 Do-While Jones	HDTV The New Digital Direction Do-While traces the evolution of television technology, looking specifically at how compatibility with early technology has shaped current developments. He then introduces HDTV fundamentals, going over how the new monitors, bandwidth, and converters will work. Note: See letter from Michael Coop in INK 91.
22 Mike Podanoffsky	Compressing Audio and Video Over the Internet With the advent of video technologies and the Internet, the plain old telephone service just doesn't cut it any more. Mike tells how a hardware/software codec maintains high-performance CD sound, full color, and high-quality image size. Download: VIDCONF.ZIP
28 David Prutchi	The Laser Billboard A Low-Cost Laser Image Projection System In Texas, there aren't many distractions for drivers, so billboards are priced skyhigh. David finds an alternative by developing his billboard using lasers. He gives some laser basics before walking us through the steps of how to build our own. Download: LASER.ZIP
Embedded PC 38 Harv Weiner	Nouveau PC
Embedded PC 41 Simon Napper	Writing Device Drivers for Embedded PCs With less and less time to design a product, it's even more important to streamline the design cycle. Simon shows how writing device drivers via a code generator tightens the schedule, reduces errors, and organizes a team's code.
Embedded PC 49 Chuck Raskin	HTML, HTML PC/104 Quarter Motion Control with PC/104 PC/104 enables precise motion control to reach into the compact capacity of the indeustrial application's closet. Chuck guides the reader in what kinds of choices need to be made when PC/104 and motion control come together.
Embedded PC 57 Fred Eady	Applied PCs Managing a NASA Plant-Growth Chamber, Part 1: Picking the Hardware With our feet firmly planted on the ground, it's hard to imagine the adjustments necessary to take a plant experiment into space. Fred walks us through the sensors and hardware he needs to track humidity, temperature, and CO2.
62 Ingo Cyliax	MicroSeries MC68030 Workstation, Part 1: The Hardware What do you do when components are no longer sold? Ingo built his own system. It was the only cost-effective way he could get a 68k platform to teach assembly-language programming when Motorola's MC68000 ECB was discontinued.
65	Advertiser's Index
74 Jeff Bachiochi	From the Bench KBDXLATOR, A Cure for the 16.6-kbps Odd Parity Blues At times, irritations in life become intolerable. This month, it happened to Jeff. He needs his keyboard to work as an asynchronous serial device. So, it's back to the drawing board. Download: FTB86.ZIP
78 Tom Cantrell	Silicon Update Radio Chip Tom, a long-time hater of computer cords, reaches into the not-so-distant future to see what's coming to the rescue. His crystal ball shows RF chips unsnaggling the rat's nest under his desk.
96 Steve Ciarcia	HTML Priority Interrupt I'm the Reader

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