Circuit Cellar Issue 113 December 1999-PDF

ISSUE 113December 1999 Theme: EMBEDDED INTERFACINGTask Manager—Managing Managing Editors, Steve Meyst, 6.New Product News, 8.Reader I/O, 11.The Poisson Network—A One-Way Architecture for Data-Collec-tion Applications , by Carl Huben, 12.Being Cool Is Easy—A Temperature-Sensing Control Device, by Donald Blake, 20.Thermoelectric Micropower Generation—An Alternative Power, by Randy Heisch, 30.Asimov II—Getting a Near-Space Project Off the Ground, by Lloyd Paul Verhage, 34.And The Winners Are…, by Rob Walker, 60.MicroSeries—High Definition TV—Part 2: MPEG-2 Transport and ATSC Data Infrastructure, by Mark Balch, 62.From The Bench—Without Acceleration—Part 2: Good (and Bad) Vibrations, by Jeff Bachiochi, 72.Silicon Update—Test Driving a Merced with Pins, by Tom Cantrell, 78.Priority Interrupt—Reading Between the Lines, by Steve Ciarcia, 96.EMBEDDED PC SECTION Nouveau PC, edited by Harv Weiner, 46.Real-Time PC—Parallel Port Interfacing, by Ingo Cyliax, 48.Applied PCs—Thin Is In: Clients, Serv