Circuit Cellar Issue 077 December 1996 - PDF

  ISSUE 77 December 1996 Theme: GRAPHICS & VIDEO Task Manager—Walt Graphics?, by Ken Davidson, 2. Reader I/O, 6. New Product News, 8. Video Timecode Fundamentals, by Ingo Cyliax, 14. Converting VGA Monitors—Plain-Vanilla Monitors Become Plug and-Play VESA-Compatible Designs, by Peter Sorrells & Shannon Poulin, 22. Image Filtering Theory—What’s a Convolution Filter?, by Bruce Hubbard, 30. The Global Positioning System—Part 1: Guiding Stars, by Do-While Jones, 38. MicroSeries—Applying the HCS II—Part 1: Of Consoles and Criminals, by Ken Davidson, 44. From the Bench—Tools—Part 2: PCB Layout—Time to Place the Donuts, by Jeff Bachiochi, 82. Silicon Update—Motorola Lights ColdFire, by Tom Cantrell, 86. ConnecTime—Excerpts from the Circuit Cellar BBS, conducted by Ken Davidson, 91. Priority Interrupt—No Nostradamus, by Steve Ciarcia, 104. EMBEDDED PC SECTION Nouveau PC, edited by Harv Weiner, 52. The PICMG Standard For Passive Backplanes, by Kent Tabor & Clint Hanson, 57. Embedde