Circuit Cellar Magazine - December 2016

In this issue

Issue #317
December 2016
Theme: Programmable Logic
06 : PRODUCT NEWS
09 : CLIENT PROFILE: Accutrace (Santa Clara, CA, US)
10 : EDITORS' PICKS: Programmable Logic
Several of the Circuit Cellar team’s favorite articles on programmable logic-related topics

42 : QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
The Electric Painters
An Interview with Isabel Lizardi & Stefan Dzisiewski-Smith
By Wisse Hettinga
A tour of London-based Bare Conductive and a look at its electrically conductive paint

14 : MediBot
Your Personal Medicine “Botler”
By Udit Gupta, Christine Hwang, and Ava Tan
A compact medical robot that reminds a user to take medication and delivers it too

22 : Resource Algebra and the Future of
FPGA Technology
By Wolfgang Matthes
An approach to computer and FPGA architecture that replaces conventional processor cores and programmable arrays of small cells

32 : DIY IoT Solution (Part 1)
Hardware and Firmware
By Tom Struzik
A look at the hardware and firmware for an Internet-connected door monitoring system

46 : THE CONSUMMATE ENGINEER
Displacement and Position Sensors (Part 3)
Position Detection
By George Novacek
An overview of handy position detection methods

50 : PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC IN PRACTICE
Experimenting with Glitch Attacks on FPGAs
By Colin O’Flynn
A few simple ways to execute glitch attacks on an FPGA platform

56 : EMBEDDED IN THIN SLICES
Build an Embedded Systems Consulting
Company (Part 1)
The Core Values of a Successful Company
By Bob Japenga
The first part of this new series covers some of the core values that can help a consulting company prosper

60 : THE DARKER SIDE
Decoupling Capacitors and RLC Networks
By Robert Lacoste
A review of decoupling capacitors, parasitic RLC networks, and parallel LC networks

66 : FROM THE BENCH
No Binary, No Problem
By Jeff Bachiochi
Get a device that speaks only ASCII data to communicate with one that speaks only binary

TECH THE FUTURE
80 : Taking the "Hard" Out of Hardware
By Alex Bucknall
Debunking the “hardware is hard” myth