Circuit Cellar Ink 21
June/July 1991

Table of Contents

1 Curtis Franklin, Jr.	Editor's INK Home, But Not Alone
4	Reader's INK Letters to the Editor
8	New Product News
14 John Dybowski	S-ARTnet -- A Powerful Controller Network Designing a Low-cost Network Around the S-ART SART devices provide a simple, cost-effective method for distributed control networking. In the first of two parts, we show you the hardware for an example control network.
26 Chris Ciarcia	Software at the Hardware Level Programming TSRs for Interrupt Handling Terminate and Stay Resident programs can do far more than just intercept keystrokes. Here's how to begin writing your own "background" programs for utility and control. Download: TSRS.ZIP
38 Jim Butler	A Simple RS-485 Network Exploit the Nine-Bit Serial Communication Modes of the 8051, 8096BH, 68HC11, 68HC05, and Z180 Microcontroller Families RS-485 is a perfect standard for networking controllers. A solid strategy for network design makes the job easier, and the result more powerful.
44 Markus A. Levy	Interfacing Microsoft's Flash File System Using Flash Memory Under MS-DOS Intel's Flash memory is gaining ground in system designs. Microsoft's Flash extensions make it easy to turn a Flash memory board into a nonvolatile RAM disk for a desktop computer.
54 Steve Ciarcia	Touch-Tone Interactive Monitor A Watchdog in Every Home Dr. Doolittle talked to the animals. Steve Ciarcia proves that having your house talk to you can be fascinating and useful. Download: DTMF.ZIP
66 Ken Davidson	CEBus Update: More Physical Details Available CEBus continues to pick up steam in home automation. The latest in our series on the EIA Home Automation Standard features new information on physical layers and implementation news.
74 Ken Davidson	Echelon's Local Operating Network The Year of the LON? New developments keep showing up in home automation. Echelon's Local Operating Network (LON) promises easier implementation and faster development for advanced building automation applications.
78 Ed Nisley	Firmware Furnace The Furnace Firmware Project Concludes: Hard Data for Home Control Download: FF21.ZIP
86 Jeff Bachiochi	From the Bench IR Communications -- An Essential Link in the Chain of Control
90 Tom Cantrell	Silicon Update The MC68HC16 -- Stretching 8 Bits to the Limit
97	Advertiser's Index
98 Scott Robert Ladd	Practical Algorithms Filtering Sampled Signals -- Software DSP Download: FILTER.ZIP
102 Ken Davidson	ConnecTime -- Excerpts from the Circuit Cellar BBS
112 Steve Ciarcia	Steve's Own INK Reach Out ...

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