CONTENTS: April 1, 2004

• Best of the Web - Featured Sites
  • Top New EE Sites of the Month
  • Complete List of This Month's Best Papers, Demo's, Cool Sites

• Conference Calendar
  • Featured Upcoming Conferences, Seminars, and Webcasts

• eCLIPS - Best of the Web, Top Sites by Subject Area
  • Busses & Boards - CompactPCI, PC/104, 1394...
  • DSP/Communications - DSP's, VoiceIP, TeleComm...
  • Embedded Systems - 68K, x86, 8051...
  • System-on-a-Chip - Config. Processors, FPGA's, IP...
  • Embedded Software - assembly, C/C++, java

( paper, 5 stars ) - Added 3/18/2004

A Guide to CodeWarrior Development Tools for 68HC08 Microcontrollers
CodeWarrior for 68HC08 is an integrated suite of tools containing all the components needed to bring an application from the concept stage to the release to the market of a finished product.

( conference, 5 stars ) - Added 3/15/2004

IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference
The IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference is the premier conference for information on leading-edge analog and digital circuits. CICC is dedicated to IC development, showcasing original, first published technical work and innovative circuit techniques that tackle practical problems.

( tutorial, 5 stars ) - Added 3/2/2004

Pentek Tutorials - DSP, Data Acquisition, PMC, etc.
C-Language Programming for DSP * Design Workshop: Data Acquisition and DSP Solutions * Designing High-Speed Data Acquisition Systems on VMEbus * Digital Receivers Bring DSP to Radio Frequencies * MIX Interface, The: A Mezzanine Bus for VME * PMC: The PCI Mezzanine Card * The VIM Family: 'C6x Mezzanine I/O Expansion Modules * Topics in Spectrum Analysis

( portal, 5 stars ) - Added 2/27/2004

Power Design 365
Power Design365 continues this tradition by providing design engineers with a focused resource on one of today's most challenging design issues: power and power management. We've combined the full editorial resources of the Penton Electronics Group including Electronic Design, EE Product News, Wireless Systems Design╦ and Microwaves & RF to bring hundreds of design articles and new product coverage specifically focused on power.

( tutorial, 4 stars ) - Added 3/18/2004

An Introduction to Motorola's 68HC05 Family of 8-Bit Microcontrollers Microcontrollers
The Tutorial starts with an architectural overview of the 68HC05 central processor unit (CPU). It covers memory organization, the CPU programmer's model, stack pointer operation, and the 68HC05 instruction set and its addressing modes. Once learned, this knowledge is applicable to all 68HC05 devices, because they all use the same CPU.

( tutorial, 4 stars ) - Added 3/25/2004

Beginners Introduction to the Assembly Language of ATMEL ╜AVR ╜Microprocessors
Assembler or other languages, that is the question.Why should I learn another language, if I already learned other programming anguages? The best argument: while you live in France you are able to get through by speaking english, but you will never feel at home then, and life remains complicated. You can get through with this, but it is rather inappropriate. If things need a hurry, you should use the country's language.

( contest, 4 stars ) - Added 2/27/2004

Circuit Cellar / Atmel AVR Design Contest
The Atmel AVR 2004 Design Contest is your chance to compete with engineers from around the world for a cut of $15,000 in prizes - not to mention the most sought-after honor of all, recognition by your peers in the embedded engineering community. Simply design a project around the AVR microcontroller of your choice, submit your entry by June 30, 2004, and get ready to square off against the top minds in the field.

( resource, 4 stars ) - Added 3/16/2004

eeProductCenter
Brought to you by the editors of EE Times and ChipCenter, is a comprehensive online resource for new product announcements and reviews of the latest integrated circuits and electronics components. eeProductCenter will draw on the experience of EE Times and ChipCenter editors to break new product information first, helping to speed the engineer's product selection process.

( association, 4 stars ) - Added 3/10/2004

EPCglobal
EPCglobal is leading the development of industry-driven standards for the Electronic Product Code (EPC) Network to support the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in today's fast-moving, information rich trading networks. We are a member-driven organisation comprised of leading firms and industries focused on creating global standards for the EPCglobal Network.

( demo, 4 stars ) - Added 3/11/2004

Hitex Demo Software
* USBIO Demo * RiskCAT Evaluation Software V4.3 without time limitation * Evaluation Software for Infineon's Starter Kit for Tricore * Evaluation Software for Infineon's new XC166 family * Firespy 2.1 * Tessy evaluation software * │Vision2 DProbe167 Driver V1.40 * HiTOP Demo * Development Assistant for C V4.0.058 * │Vision Demo Software for C166 * RISM251

( resource, 4 stars ) - Added 3/2/2004

NPLogic Network Processor Pages
The information on this web site is based on the Master's Thesis 'Visions and Facts: A Survey of Network Processors' that was written and completed at the Department of Computer Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology in GЖteborg, Sweden. Network processors are here to stay.

( portal, 4 stars ) - Added 3/19/2004

Silicon Strategies
Since 1997, Silicon Strategies has been the de facto news and analysis resource for semiconductor professionals. Silicon Strategies gives industry and investment professionals the most comprehensive coverage of semiconductor manufacturing and the industry worldwide. We are primarily a 24/7 news site, focused on breaking the latest news and delivering expert analysis on major events.

( overview, 4 stars ) - Added 3/24/2004

Texas Instruments Online Training
DSP and Analog Training courses - most of which are FREE and online - from Texas Instruments. Considerations and Tradeoffs when Choosing a Floating-Point Device * TMS320C6000 (TM) TCP/IP Network Developer's Kit (NDK) TMS320 (TM) DSP Algorithm Standard

( paper, 4 stars ) - Added 3/11/2004

The Future of High Performance Machine Vision
Recently several of Alacron's customers from the inspection and semiconductor industries have asked us to integrate multiple fast large CCD arrays or the new fast high frame rate CMOS sensors with data rates in the 500 to 1000 MB/sec range into a real-time systems.

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( conference, 4 stars ) - 4/19/2004, Salt Lake City

Software Technology Conference
Welcome to the Software Technology Conference (STC 2004)! The goal of the conference is to provide a forum for software professionals in the Department of Defense (DoD), related industries, and academia to increase their understanding of effective software technologies and exchange lessons learned in the acquisition, development, support, and management of software intensive systems.

( conference, 4 stars ) - 4/26/2004, Dallas

Motorola Smart Networks Developers Forum
Attendees participate in open Q&A panel sessions, more than 150 hours of technical breakout sessions, and the interactive Technology Lab featuring components, systems and solutions from Motorola and dozens of Smart Networks Alliance members. To view presentations of the sessions online, visit the breakout sessions area and download the presentations in which you are interested.

( conference, 4 stars ) - 5/9/2004, Las Vegas

NetWorld+Interop
NetWorld+Interop provides networking, Internet and telecommunications professionals with a uniquely comprehensive forum for education and hands-on evaluation of products and services in order to make critical purchasing decisions. NetWorld+Interop affords buyers from enterprises, carrier/service providers, and resellers/integrators the opportunity to experience live technology demonstrations first-hand.

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Top Sites by Subject Category
Browse the TOP SITES by subject category. These are the best Internet portals, publications, consortia and other one-stop info resources for efficient Web browsing. Subjects include Busses &Boards (PC/104, VME, CompactPCI...), DSP/Communications, Embedded Systems (8051, ARM, PowerPC...), System-on-a-Chip (IP, ASIC, FPGA...)

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