Circuit Cellar Issue 069 April 1996 - PDF

ISSUE 69 April 1996 Theme: COMMUNICATIONS Task Manager—Political Arachnids, by Ken Davidson, 2. Reader I/O, 6. New Product News, 8. SPARC Telco Applications, by Richard Pedreau, 12. Caller ID Fundamentals, by Richard Newman, 18. Vehicular Control Multiplexing With CAN And J1850—Part 1: Vehicular Multiplexing Fundamentals, by Willard Dickerson, 22. The Embedded Sun—Part 1: Introduction to the Hardware, by Anindya Ray & Lee Hanson DSP in RISC Embedded Processors, by Richard Pedreau Fujitsu’s SPARClite Alternatives, by John Burns, 28. Embedding A Message-Based System, by Pat Baird, 38. Firmware Furnace—80x86 Performance—Cache Craziness Redux, by Ed Nisley, 78. From the Bench—LEDs Finally Fill the Rainbow, by Jeff Bachiochi, 84. Silicon Update—Fuzzy PID-Pong, by Tom Cantrell, 90. ConnecTime—Excerpts from the Circuit Cellar BBS, conducted by Ken Davidson, 98. Priority Interrupt—Not Just Ferengi Values, by Steve Ciarcia, 112. EMBEDDED PC SECTION Nouveau PC, edited by Harv Weiner, 44. Em