Circuit Cellar #218 09 2008.pdf

CIRCUIT CELLAR

THE MAGAZINE FOR COMPUTER APPLICATIONS

#218 September 2008

DATA ACQUISITION

Acquire and Stream Internet-Based Content

Biometric Data Acquisition and Processing

A Remote for an Animatronic System

Real-Time Vibration Measurement

Photovoltaic System Installation

Prototyping with QFP Packages

$5.95 U.S. ($6.95 Canada)

Fast Digital Filtering 101 (p. 40) • An RTOS for a Powerful MCU (p. 56) • Next-Gen Embedded Options (p. 76)

NetBurner Customer Feedback: Why are you using NetBurner?

The excellent out-of-the-box experience

I would like to comment on the quality of a product that I purchased - the MOD5270. I’ve purchased products in the past from

other companies that claim “plug and play” functionality. Usually this means plug it in and try to ﬁgure out why it doesn’t work.

With the MOD5270 I literally plugged in the power, connected it to my router, and ran the factory demo.

I am also impressed with the number of example applications that are included and the fact that all the development tools

are included. It was nice to be able to create a new project, import one of the examples, and run it within 5 minutes.

Keith Gilman, Sr. Design Engineer

The complete hardware and software solution

We did a previous project using different companies for the RTOS, network stack, and compiler. Yeah, three vendors and all the

associated ﬁnger pointing. We had to buy the ﬂash ﬁle system as an extra/add-on. We put an 8M ﬂash device on our proces-

sor bus, and a guy had to write a driver for the device (data register, command register, poll the ready bit, blah, blah), it was a 3+

month job. I thought I was in for the same thing. Thanks to you, we will drop the soldered-on Flash and put on the SD connec-

tor which will be ready to roll with your ﬁle system that runs ‘right out of the box. I was sweating about all the Flash work, and

now its gone.

John Ramsy, Project Engineer

The active forum ﬁlled with NB Gurus

NetBurner offers a highly versatile and affordable solution set for embedded design, remote control, and product develop-

ment. From the very active user forum (with Netburner gurus in attendance), to the great IDE and tool chain. NetBurner is the

ﬁrst and only solution for TCP/IP-Internet-Web product automation in my book.

Chris Ruff, Software Engineer

The quality of the technical support

I’ve been really impressed with the quality of the tech support. The guys answering the questions are right on and super

helpful (probably has to do with your policy of having the engineers handle the tickets).

Nicolae P. Costescu, Project Engineer

The full-featured tool set, examples, and documentation

The device and the NetBurner tool-set far exceeded our expectations. I spent a week familiarizing myself with the NetBurn-

er tools, and then I wrote a ﬁrst-cut of the original application that I had envisioned for the SB72EX. As it turned out, two of

the example applications formed the core of the networking capabilities of my application. The bulk of my time was spent

implementing a simple command interface to cause the device to interrupt its default IP-to-serial modes to receive and

store a stream of data and then FTP that data to a remote server.

The NNDK interface to the IP/socket facilities of the SB72EX proved to be the simplest part of the application - the inter-

face is straightforward and the documentation is excellent (the large collection of application examples didn’t hurt). Mid-

way through my efforts I had a couple of questions that I elected to send to the NetBurner support group - the response

was almost immediate, the person(s) responding were obviously knowledgeable and experienced - how refreshing!

The SB72EX device and (perhaps more importantly) the NetBurner tool-set have proven to exceed our immediate needs

and have started the gears turning as to how we might use them to address other requirements.

Fred Craft , Software Engineer

Information and Sales | sales@netburner.com

Web | www.netburner.com

Telephone | 1-800-695-6828

Interconnects

Micro USB

Industrial Ethernet

Hard Metric

Fiber Optic

MicroTCA

HDMI

SFP

Mini SAS

SATA

New Products from:

QSFP Pluggable I/O Interface

www.mouser.com/amp/a

M12 Ethernet Cables

www.mouser.com/

phoenix/a

HDMI Cable Assemblies

www.mouser.com/molex/a

MicroTCA

Card Edge Connectors

www.mouser.com/fci/a

The ONLY New Catalog Every 90 Days

Experience Mouser’s time-to-market

advantage with no minimums and same-day

shipping of the newest products from more

than 366 leading suppliers.

S and K Series Multi-Pole Connectors

www.mouser.com/lemo/a

IP67 Data 3A Connectors

www.mouser.com/harting/a

The Newest Products

For Your Newest Designs

www.mouser.com

Over A Million Products Online

(800) 346-6873

The Newest

Graphic Display Value

Approaching Character Display Prices

A Display You Can Read From Any Angle

vfd

RoHS Compliant

ISO 9001 Certified

9001 140001 TS16949

Noritake 7000 Series

BUILT-IN FEATURES THAN YOU MAY EVER NEED...

Up to 4 Independent Windows with Individual Control

8 Levels of Brightness Control

Many Int’l Font Sets with 16 User-Defined Characters

Built-in Screen Savers

Easily Combine Text & Graphics on One Screen

Many Filters Available to Match Application

Horizontal & Vertical Scrolling

Development Kit Available

Proportional Fonts & Font Magnification

DON’T COMPROMISE.

Your application deserves

VFD quality ...

Noritake VFD

Backlit LCD

www.noritake-elec.com/51m

Noritake Co., Inc.

2635 Clearbrook Dr., Arlington Heights, IL 60005 phone 1-800-779-5846

e-mail electronics@noritake.com

Over 100 Years in Business

Plik z chomika:

Inne pliki z tego folderu:

Inne foldery tego chomika: