Circuit Cellar Issue 171 October 2004-PDF

ISSUE 171October 2004Theme: Data Acquisition TASK MANAGER Redesigned to Impress, by Jennifer Huber, p. 4NEW PRODUCT NEWS, edited by John Gorsky, p. 8TEST YOUR EQ, by David Tweed, p. 11Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, by Charlie Krauter, p. 12E-Field Serial Touchpad, by Erwin Saavedra , p. 26Pseudo-Random Noise Theory and Applications, by Shlomo Engelberg and Haim Benjamin, p. 32ABOVE THE GROUND PLANE Stepper Drive (Part 2): Digital, by Ed Nisley, p. 36 APPLIED PCs Big PICs, by Fred Eady, p. 40 FROM THE BENCH Digital Radio Control, by Jeff Bachiochi, p. 48Single-Board Logic Analyzer, by Larry Cicchinelli, p.54Intelligent Sensor Head, by Andrew Smallridge, p. 60SILICON UPDATE Try Hard with a Vengeance, by Tom Cantrell, p. 70Telephone Message Watchdog: An Intelligent Call-Forwarding System, by Jingxi Zhang, Yang Zhang, and Huifang Ni, p. 76PRIORITY INTERRUPT The Collegiate Challenge, by Steve Ciarcia, p. 96