Circuit Cellar Ink 92
March 1998

Table of Contents

2 Janice Hughes	Task Manager Reality Alert
6	Reader I/O Letters to the Editor
8 Harv Weiner	New Product News Motor Mind B from Solutions Cubed TIR2000 IR controller from Texas Instruments, Inc. DI-150RS Starter Kit from Dataq Instruments, Inc. Model 552 Series telephone line protector from Patton Electronics Co. Model 5650A servo controller from Technology 80, Inc.
12 Bill Bailey Jon Reese Randy Sargent Carl Witty Anne Wright	Robots with a Vision Using the Cognachrome Vision System Having a problem mastering Sampras's serve? This robot equipped with a color-conscious vision system, can chase down your wayward tennis balls. You'll find it's a grand slam system. Game, set and match to M1.
24 Ingo Cyliax	Power Systems in Autonomous Robots Power presents a special challenge when it comes to robot design. After reviewing the various types of batteries, Ingo shows how he untethered the power system on the Stiquito robots he introduced in an article in INK 73.
30 Bruce Reynolds	MicroBot Programming Intel's 8749 for Robotic Control Bruce is an advocate of age-old wisdom: If you can do it simply and with common components, do it! As he proves with MicroBot, overkill is unnecessary. You can still cram a lot of functionality into an 8-bit micro. Download: Microbot.zip Note: Information on 8749 availability by Craig Miller in INK 94 Reader I/O.
Embedded PC 36 Harv Weiner	Nouveau PC ZF FlashDisk-SC from ZF MicroSystems PCISDNU PC/104 terminal adapter from Xecom, Inc. Embedded Processor Module from Intel Corp. PC-500 single-board computer from Octagon Systems PC/Ranger compactPCI enclosure from Kinetic Computer 2107 single-board computer from Toronto MicroElectronics, Inc.
Embedded PC 41 Chip Freitag Jeff Kirk	Converting 8051 Code for an 'x86 Embedded Processor Although many prefer using C when moving to a 16-bit processor, there are times when low-level drivers and time-critical code demand that portions of the code remain in assembler. Chip and Jeff suggests ways to ease that process.
Embedded PC 47 Ingo Cyliax	HTML Real-Time PC Picking a PC RTOS To implement a real-time system, you have to figure out which RTOS to pick. Using a robot control application as an example, Ingo establishes what fundamental criteria you need to look at first.
Embedded PC 53 Fred Eady	Applied PCs Embedding PC Card, Part 1: The Time has Come With PC Cards, the designer gains many additional resources without the cost of incorporating all the functionality in everyone's product and without having to "buy" more real estate. Fred shows you how to make the most of PCMCIA.
58 Gordon Dick	Motor Speed Control with a Microtwist If you need to modify an analog speed-control circuit, you're in for a major redesign. But if your system is digital like Gordon's, adding an extra feature isn't so complicated. Hop onboard to learn how to develop speed control with a 68HC11. Download: Motorspd.asm
64A	MicroMint Catalog
65	Advertiser's Index
66 Joe DiBartolomeo	MicroSeries EMI Gone Technical, Part 2: Suppression Components Sometimes it feels like a case of eenie-meenie-miney-moe when it comes to figuring out which suppression component is best for you. Time to chat with Joe. He has some guidelines that help you find the best fit.
74 Jeff Bachiochi	From the Bench Proprietary Serial Protocols -- No Help from Traditional UARTs Even when you don't have the tools, you need to know how to get the job done. For instance, with proprietary protocol message formats, traditional UARTs aren't an option. Jeff checks your options. Note: Comment by Terry Koh in INK 95 Reader I/O
80 Tom Cantrell	Silicon Update ShBoom Box A little bored? Patriot Scientific's ShBoom to the rescue. It brings past and present together with stack-machine architecture, Java portability, and code density to make one mean little CPU.
96 Steve Ciarcia	HTML Priority Interrupt For Once, I Sort of Agree

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