Circuit Cellar Ink
Articles by Tom Napier

Tom Napier has a B.S. in physics, an M.S. in electronics, and more years of design experience than he cares to mention. He would spend more time investigating fringe theories if he could just find a way to make money at it.

• #89 December 1997, p. 70, MicroSeries Applying Direct Digital Synthesis, Part 1: Making Waves with NCOs
• #90 January 1998, p. 68, MicroSeries Applying Direct Digital Synthesis, Part 2: Building and Testing an NCO Generator
• #93 April 1998, p. 30, PDF, PDF HTML, HTML, HTML Picaro A Stamp-like Interpreted Controller
• #99 October 1998, p. 36, HTML Digital Frequency Synthesis
• #120 July 2000, p. 34, PDF 115 VAC, to Go, Please Drive a Portable Inverter with a PIC16C54
• #121 August 2000, p. 68, PDF HTML Count the Digits Designing a Frequency Meter
• #122 September 2000, p. 30, PDF One Small Step Part 1: Measuring Flight Data in Model Rockets
• #122 September 2000, CC Online, PDF HTML An Intelligent Serial Command Interface
• #123 October 2000, p. 66, PDF One Small Step Part 2: Liftoff!
• #124 November 2000, p. 62, Applications of PN Sequences
• #129 April 2001, p. 36, A Single-Chip PN Sequence Generator
• #132 July 2001, p. 44, Put Telepathy to the Test
• #134 September 2001, p. 60, An Exponential Sweep Frequency Generator
• #135 October 2001, p. 12, Considering an Analog Filter
• #138 January 2002, p. 60, A Wide-Range Audio Generator
• #145 August 2002, p. 20, Embedded Smarts Fix Analog Flaws
• #150 January 2003, p. 12, Use Frequency Modulation to Send ASCII Data
• #153 April 2003, p. 76, Get One-Chip Programmer Power
• #156 July 2003, p. 18, A Minimal Flash PIC Programmer
• #161 December 2003, p. 36, Low-Cost Serial LCD Convert a Discount LCD into a Serial ASCII Display
• #164 March 2004, p. 68, The Ultimate Firmware NCO?
• #169 August 2004, p. 28, PICs, DRAMs, and Graphic Displays Build a Graphics LCD Driver
• #173 December 2004, p. 72, Reference Generation Build a 60-Hz Generator with an NCO
• #181 August 2005, p. 18, Real-Time Pulse Generator
• #184 November 2005, p. 52, Measure Low-Level Radioactivity Build a Sensitive Radiation Counter
• #187 February 2006, p. 73, Number Crunching On a Budget Custom PIC MCU Solution Trumps PC