Technical Publications

• 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
  • Universal Concepts (See the video)
  • Selecting Features (See the video)
  • Productivity (See the video)
  • Myths (See the video)
  • Threading (See the video)
  • Defensive Programming (See the video)
  • Interrupts
  • Complexity
  • Open Source Code
  • Language Features
  • Advanced Features
  • Debugging
  • Compilers
  • Common Trip-Ups
  • Fate
  • Simplicity
  • Agile Methods
• Advice for Young Programmers
  Moving in the right direction the first time.
• 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.
• 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, 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, 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, February, 1994. A discipline for writing structured assembly language programs is described.