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Articles by Michael R. Smith

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Mike Smith has a strong interest in the fields of Biomedical and Computer Engineering and holds a firm belief that agile methodologies, such as test-driven development, are a route to lower numbers of defects in mobile systems. Mike's sense of humor often appears in his frequent contributions to Circuit Cellar. He is a professor at the University of Calgary, Canada, and is director of the Small Microsystems for Improving Life Expectancy (SMILE) laboratory.

• #28 August/September 1992, p. 14, To DSP or Not to DSP Will a RISC chip do it Better?
• #38 September 1993, p. 14, Is the AMD29050 a FIR-bearing Animal?
• #44 March 1994, p. 30, Computer "Train"ing Using commercial evaluation boards in teaching
• #52 November 1994, p. 50, Fast-scaling Routine for Floating-point RISC and DSP Processors
• #56 March 1995, p. 50, Being ASSERTive with Your Processor The Advantage of Software Interrupts
• #64 November 1995, p. 36, Developing a Virtual Hardware Device
• #70 May 1996, p. 30, The Evaluation Board Saga Continues Low-Cost Educational Tools
• #96 July 1998, p. 12, PDF HTML Unplanned Calibration Errors in Embedded Systems
• #97 August 1998, p. 22, HTML, HTML Simulating Micro-Controlled Systems
• #101 December 1998, p. 32, PDF Some Assembly Required Assembling C Code for Your Embedded System
• #109 August 1999, CC Online, PDF HTML Looking Through the Internet A Prototype Security System
• #113 December 1999, CC Online, PDF HTML Voice Recognition Controlled Sailboat Speech-Recognition Control Aids Disabled Sailors
• #117 April 2000, CC Online, PDF HTML The SHARC in the C
• #125 December 2000, p. 20, Make Your Data Comfortable Get Bit Cushions
• #127 February 2001, p. 12, Quirks and SHARCs
• #176 March 2005, p. 34, Practical Application for TDD Part 1: Write Software in a Test-Driven Development Environment
• #177 April 2005, p. 60, Practical Application for TDD Part 2: Automated Test-Driven Environment
• #184 November 2005, p. 26, Automatic Microcontroller Task Scheduling
• #226 May 2009, CC Online, Time-Triggered Systems Part 2: A Tool for Automating Analysis
• #227 June 2009, CC Online, Time-Triggered Systems Part 3: Tackle Data Acquisition
• #245 December 2010, p. 16, Mobile Application Development Part 1: Program a Sound-Monitoring Prototype
• #246 January 2011, p. 36, Mobile Application Development Part 2: A Sound-Detection Algorithm