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• AirBorn Electronics Circuit Design Library - microcontroller circuits   
• alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt FAQ   
• Analog-input circuit serves any microcontroller - This simple ADC is suitable for getting analog signals into a purely digital microcontroller. Using just five surface-mount parts, you can assemble it for less than 50 cents (1000), which is approximately half the cost of a single-chip-ADC approach in the same volume. Moreover, this design takes only one pin from the microcontroller to operate.   
• armory.com anonymous FTP archives - lots of microcontroller information, 68HC11, 8048, 8051, 8085, 80x86   
• A Set of Standard Microprocessor Programming Cards   
• Born to Fail - Systems fail, and sometimes no one is around to reset them before something worse happens. That's why watchdog timers matter.   
• Configurable processors: Stir it up - Configurable processors can be a cost-effective ingredient in your design. But they may also be an evolutionary abstraction.   
• Conventional DSP or configurable microcontroller: which way to go? - Engineers of DSP-based systems are in a quandary over whether to use a conventional DSP or one of the new configurable microcontrollers. The technical challenges of MP3 decoding provide the basis for comparing traditional DSPs with upstart configurable micros.   
• Digital Alpha Documentation   
• EDN's 27th Annual Microprocessor/Microcontroller Directory - year 2000 version of the EDN Microprocessor/Microcontroller Directory   
• EDN's 28th annual microprocessor / microcontroller directory - year 2001 version of the EDN Microprocessor/Microcontroller Directory   
• EDN's 29th annual microprocessor / microcontroller directory - year 2002 version of the EDN Microprocessor/Microcontroller Directory   
• Electrical/Electronics Project Designer's Page - Electrical and Electronical Applications prepared by using Assembler Programming Language. Motor Control,Serial Communications,Temperature Control,Basic Assembler Applications,I/O Ports Design,Timer and ADC.   
• EmbeddedLinks - Portal to engineering and management resources about embedded systems and microcontrollers on the Internet   
• Embedded News Digest - Your Embedded System and Microcontroller News Source, free monthly newsletter on embedded systems and microcontrollers industry events   
• Embedded Processor and Microcontroller primer and FAQ   
• Embedded Processor and Microcontroller primer and FAQ   
• Embedded Systems Glossary   
• Embedded TCP/IP: a smorgasbord of options - Internet-connected devices are not always more intelligent than stand-alone devices. Connectivity means more intelligent device management.   
• Exploring the anatomy of multiprocessor designs - Parallel processing can improve performance, but it can also simplify your design by better reflecting the natural partitioning of your application behavior and development resources. You can define multiprocessor designs as systems that perform functions and tasks among multiple processors that coordinate and communicate with each other to deliver a coherent behavior. A multiprocessor application is more complex than a single-processor design. It requires additional programming for housekeeping and coordinating functions, and it is more complex to debug, because of processor interactions that are absent in single-processor architectures.   
• Fear and loathing of porting embedded software - Using legacy software in your project can minimize your development time because you can avoid duplicating effort for design specifications, test cases, and performing implementation trades from earlier development efforts. However, legacy software, even when written in a portable language, often requires you to perform some porting. Software porting is the engineering process that transforms software so that it will operate within a new target environment. Successful software porting demands the same engineering discipline as any development project. Why, then, does a published, general, standard methodology appear to be nonexistent?   
• General-purpose �Ps for DSP applications: consider the trade-offs - using general-purpose processors instead of dedicated DSPs for DSP-intensive applications has some advantages, as well as some pitfalls   
• High-Availability RTOSes: A Buyer's Guide - Attention is turning to the real-time operating system (RTOS) as hardware system OEMs focus on 99.999% reliability.   
• History of the Microprocessor - short list of PC processors from 8068 to P7   
• Keeping Embedded System Design Projects on Time and Close to Budget - article by Ken Crater, published in December 1999 I&CS (PDF file)   
• Links to some companies selling microcontroller development tools   
• Logical combination? - Convergence products need both RISC and DSP processors, but merging them may not be the answer. The mainstreaming of signal-processing applications, along with the growing surplus of conventional processing power, turned RISC and DSP into competitors for the same sockets.   
• Microprocessor instruction set cards   
• MicroControllers and Electronics page   
• Power-On Reset (POR) Circuit - One of the trivial circuit in hardware design is the power-on reset circuitry. You can find it in practically any microcontroller board.   
• Profit with plug-in processors - Off-the-shelf module computers let designers skip the most complex portion of embedded-product design and simplify future upgrades. Module computers package the CPU, mass storage, and processor-peripheral interfaces on a replaceable mezzanine card. Replacing the CPU and peripherals allows designers to update and retrofit embedded devices without product redesign.   
• Pushbutton switch controls power supply and �C - switching handheld units on and off with a pushbutton switch is a desirable feature but needs some thinking   
• Real-Time Encyclopedia - web site bout real-time issues   
• Steve Walz's Electronics FTP site - large FTP archive, microcontrollers and electronics documents   
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• Tiny and Inexpensive Programmable Controllers for Quick Project Development   
• Virtual programmers build embedded code - With shrinking software-development schedules and a growing shortage of skilled programmers, embedded-system designers are adopting automatic-code-generation tools to stay ahead of their competition.   

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