Circuit Cellar Issue 053 December 1994-PDF

ISSUE 53 December 1994 Theme: COMPUTING IN REAL TIME Editor’s INK—Putting the Cart Before the Horse, by Ken Davidson, 2. New Product News, 7. Designing Real-Time Embedded Software Using State-Machine Concepts, by David Tweed, 12. All Together Now—Writing Multiuser Application Software for ACCESS.bus, by David Rodgers & Peretz Tzarnotsky, 20. Make The Most Of Your DSP-Based Sound Card, by Bob Fine, 30. Circuit Cellar Design Contest Winners, compiled by Janice Marinelli, 40. A RISC Designers New Right Arm—Development Boards and Design Specifics, by Art Sobel, 44. Firmware Furnace—Journey to the Protected Land: Fancy Text Output and a Boot Mystery, by Ed Nisley, 56 From the Bench—Engineer Seeks Personal Gardener: Assisting Vocally Challenged Vegetation, by Jeff Bachiochi, 66. Silicon Update—Do You Know the Way to San Jose?: Precise Navigation Technology, by Tom Cantrell, 72. Embedded Techniques—Between the Lines—Bar Code and Decoding Bar Code Algorithms, by John Dybowski, 78. ConnecT