We hope these publications will interest you!

• Read the BOOK! Revolution in America: Producers Taking Control
• Read The Constitution! Then think about it.
• Several web articles on the late ChipCenter / eChips as an EExpert columnist, and independently published web articles...
  Technical
  • How NOT to Enrich Uranium -- Friendly Advice to Iran
    Helping our brothers across the pond make some fireworks.
  • The Embedded System Design Library: Articles Promoting Better Design
    • Economics
    • Features
    • Productivity
    • Myths
    • Threading
    • Defensive Programming
    • Interrupts
    • Complexity
    • Open Source Code
    • Language Features
    • Advanced Features
    • Debugging
    • Compilers
    • Common Trip-Ups
    • Fate
    • Simplicity
  • The Process of Innovation
    Making cool new products.
  • Building a WWVB Receiver Using the CME8000
    Building a working WWVB receiver, and WWVB simulator.
  • Error Detection And Correction Using the BCH Code
    The BCH code is used in communications systems to ensure correct data transmission. This is a PDF file.
  • The Golay Error Detection And Correction Code
    Another code used in communications systems to ensure correct data transmission.
  • An Assembly Language Programming Aid
    This technique will help you write more bulletproof assembly programs. Great for PIC programmers.
  • From Technician to Engineer
    Take the leap and move up in the creative ranks.
  • Using State Machines In Your Designs
    Another tool to organize your programs.
  • The Unspoken Secrets of Software Development
    Featuring the FBI's Virtual Case File project disaster.
  • Becoming an Independent Contractor
    Burn your cubicle to the ground and trade in your khakis for a bath robe. Really.
  • Electronics Design Checklist
    Use the checklist to avoid those stupid errors that you make on every project.
  • MEMS DWDM Device Routes Optical Signals
    Not every innovation is serious.
  • A Primer on Product Development
    Developing a new product? You have to know this stuff...
  General Interest
  • Tech Support Suckers
    Are you inadvertently enabling PC hucksters?
  • The Microsoft Death Toll
    This software is killing me.
  • Why I Work For A Small Company
    I could work for Brand X, but I work for Brand I! Shouldn't you?
  • Cloning: The Horror of Us
    Cloning is not all it's cracked up to be.
  • Wisdom, Experience and Knowledge! Oh My!
    To understand your work, you have to understand your brain.
  • Are you an electronics junkie?
    Chip resistors in the clothes dryer lint catcher? You might be a...
  • You Can't Do That... It's Patented!
    Navigating the patent mine field, and laughing at the system while you do it.


• "Designing with Programmable Logic Devices", Communication Systems Design, February, 1996. A survey of programmable logic device users and vendors in search of kinder, gentler PLD experiences.
• "Personal Communications", Communication Systems Design, June, 1995; co-author Bud Simciak. A wrap-up of the April article looking at terrestrial and satellite-based personal communication.
• "Wireless Design: Options for the 90s", Communication Systems Design, premier April, 1995 issue; co-author Bud Simciak. An extensive survey of wireless communications options for the first issue of this publication.
• "No Emulator? Try a One-wire Debugger", Circuit Cellar Ink, January, 1995. A one-wire serial communications protocol is described which can be used to carry debugging information out of a tight-lipped microcontroller.
• "Sticky-50 VGA Text Mode Utility", Electronic Design, June 26, 1995. A utility is described which defeats the annoying habit of most DOS text mode programs to change the video format to 25 lines.
• "Using The Golay Error Detection and Correction Code", Circuit Cellar Ink, July, 1994. An in-depth discussion of the properties and use of the Golay code in communications systems is presented.
• "Synchronize PRNGs' Bit Stream, Clock", Electronic Design, May 2, 1994. A method for synchronizing two pseudorandom generators is detailed.
• "An Assembly Language Programming Aid", Circuit Cellar Ink, February, 1994. A discipline for writing structured assembly language programs is described.

Articles of interest to musicians:

• Demanding Quality Guitar Gear
  Rebelling against Wal-Mart quality in guitar gear.
• Guitar Pedal Hookup Order
  Exploring new tones by simply reordering your effects pedals.
• Fixing the AXON AX100 Guitar Synth
  This expensive synth needs some brain surgery!
• The Guitar Pickup Tone Database
  Compare ooodles of guitar pickups instantly!
• The ZEROCAP Ultra Low Capacitance Guitar Cable FAQ
  Good info on the ZEROCAP products.
• The PM-150 Audio Power Meter FAQ
  How the PM-150 works and why it's good for you!
• An Explanation of RMS Power Measurement
  How is power measured? This article tells you.
• The Effect of Cable Capacitance on Guitar Tone
  Capaciwhat? It does affect your tone, but not exactly how you expect.
• Are you a guitar junkie?
  Take this test to see if you are truly addicted.
• The How's and Why's of Ground Loops
  Huummmmmm... This is where the hum comes from.
• What's with the Tube Hype?
  Like so many things, good sound is part fact, part fiction.
• What About Gold Connectors and Oxygen Free Copper?
  More fact and fiction.
• The Truth about Tone Capacitors
  Hypefest busting at its best!
• The Guitar Gear Hype Machine
  Twisting your twisted little mind a little bit more!
• What About Point-to Point vs. Circuit Board Wiring?
  Which is truly the Yellow Brick Road?
• The Musician's Impedance Primer
  For the musician with a calculator in his cell phone.
• What Do Speaker Impedances Mean?
  How do you hook up all those speakers to maximize sound and minimize smoke?
• How do guitar pickups work?
  We love 'em, they sound great, but how do they work?
• What Do Guitar Tuner Accuracy Specs Mean?
  Cent, cents, and millicents. What's the value?

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