Greetings! eCLIPS has identified the monthly 'Best of the Web' list. Here are the coolest, most useful, electronic design white papers, demo's, new portals, personal sites and other informational sites identified by eg3.com editorial in the last thirty days. Enjoy! >> Use 'courier' font, for best viewing. CONTENTS: NOVEMBER 1, 2003 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * 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 * META: - Subscribe/unsubscribe SPONSOR MESSAGE: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PHOENIX cME FIRSTBIOS PRO EDITOR >> Download a FREE Trial Version! BIOS editing has never been this easy! Phoenix cME FirstBIOS Pro Editor * decrease time-to-market * optimize system performance * easily customize displays @ http://www.eg3.com/best.cgi/489 BEST OF THE WEB - TOP NEW EE SITES OF THE MONTH: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GNU DEVELOPMENT CHAIN FOR 68HC11 & 68HC12 (tool, 5 Stars) >> Welcome to the GNU Development chain for the Motorola 68HC11 & 68HC12 micro-controllers. The cross compiler works on any host supported by GNU tools (Solaris, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, HP/UX, MacOS X, Windows,...). The GNU Development Chain is very complete and integrates @ http://www.eg3.com/best.cgi/641/ THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF EXAMINERS FOR ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING (NCEES) (organization, 5 Stars) >> The National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) is a national non-profit organization composed of engineering and land surveying licensing boards representing all U.S. states and territories. @ http://www.eg3.com/best.cgi/642/ THE SMALL WORLD OF HC08 (tutorial, 5 Stars) >> It was pleasure to prepare this mainly teaching project. The presentation, software and hardware is based on cooperation between Beta Control and various Motorola staff. But the project is opened and everybody is welcome to cooperate. This web site includes various software examples which should help understanding and using the architecture of Motorola HC08 Family. @ http://www.eg3.com/best.cgi/643/ ADVANCEDTCA TUTORIAL (paper, 4 Stars) >> The AdvancedTCA architecture offers many benefits for the telecommunications industry, including its mechanical and thermal design, -48 VDC power, high availability features, management infrastructure, and high-speed switched serial interconnection fabrics. Download a PDF (1.4 MB) of the 73-slide tutorial on AdvancedTCA given by Brough Turner during the 2003 Communications Design Conference . . . @ http://www.eg3.com/best.cgi/644 ALL ABOUT FUZZY LOGIC (overview, 4 Stars) >> Fuzzy logic was developed by Lotfi A. Zadeh in the 1960s in order to provide mathematical rules and functions which permitted natural language queries. Fuzzy logic provides a means of calculating intermediate values between absolute true and absolute false with resulting values ranging between 0.0 and 1.0. @ http://www.eg3.com/best.cgi/645 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND A-LIFE (resource, 4 Stars) >> WELCOME TO THE UNIVERSE of humanoid robots, intelligent insects and virtual creatures designed to fly real planes. . . Researchers in artificial intelligence (AI) and artificial life (A-Life) make their living by modelling, copying or adapting systems from biology. @ http://www.eg3.com/best.cgi/646/ ATMEL AVR RESOURCES (UNIVERSITY PROJECT AND TUTORIALS) (university, 4 Stars) >> All resources listed on this page are free to download and use. They have been downloaded from the AVR Freaks website and placed here so that they can be found conveniently on a single web page. PonyProg was downloaded from www.LancOS.com The AVR8515/35 Project Boards were designed and made by www.itee.uq.edu.au @ http://www.eg3.com/best.cgi/647/ CENTER FOR IMAGE PROCESSING IN EDUCATION (organization, 4 Stars) >> A not-for-profit organization that promotes computer-aided visualization as a tool for inquiry-based learning. CIPE conducts workshops and develops instructional materials that use Image Processing and Geographic Information Systems technologies as platforms for teaching about science, mathematics and technology. @ http://www.eg3.com/best.cgi/648/ CHIP DESIGN MAGAZINE (magazine, 4 Stars) >> Chip Design is the premier magazine focused 100% on the advanced IC design market. Chip Design, published bimonthly, provides in-depth coverage of EDA topics and peer-to-peer based content that demonstrate solutions to IC design related issues. @ http://www.eg3.com/best.cgi/649/ EMBEDDED LINUX EXPERIENCE (personal page, 4 Stars) >> Embedded Linux? is one of the first books available that teaches you development and implementation of interfacing applications on an embedded Linux platform. In this book, you will find a comprehensive discussion of platform selection, cross-compiling, kernel compilation, root filesystem creation, booting, remote debugging, real-world ? This is the Author's home page and information on his book and tutorials? @ http://www.eg3.com/best.cgi/650/ EMBEDDED LINUX: HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, AND INTERFACING (book, 4 Stars) >> This book covers the development and implementation of interfacing applications on an embedded Linux platform, offering a series of real- world interfacing examples designed to introduce embedded Linux from hardware and software perspectives. Readers will learn to create an embedded Linux development environment and walk through hardware and software interfacing examples using asynchronous serial communication, the PC parallel port . . . @ http://www.eg3.com/best.cgi/651/ FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT THE INVENTION OF THE MICROPROCESSOR BY M.E. 'TED' HOFF IN 1968. (overview, 4 Stars) >> When it first started in the mid-sixties, Intel produced electronic memory components. Ted Hoff was employee number 12 at the company assigned to work with minicomputers and in June, 1968, he was asked to liaison with a group of Japanese engineers from a company called Busicom. @ http://www.eg3.com/best.cgi/652 FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM TUTORIAL (tutorial, 4 Stars) >> Before reading this section it is assumed that you have already covered some basic Fourier theory. This section covers the Fast Fourier Transform and it's applications. At the end of this tutorial it is expected that you will be able to * Understand the frequency domain and some of it's uses. * Understand the Fourier Transform * Understand the FFT algorithm so that you can implement it. * Be able to perform a simple Fast Fourier Transform by hand @ http://www.eg3.com/best.cgi/653 GIOS - AN OPEN SOURCE BIOS FOR POWERPC BASED EMBEDDED SYSTEMS (freeware, 4 Stars) >> GBIOS was developed and released under the GPL by us as a service to the embedded community. It makes a great counterpart to the Linux OS, giving developers the option of completely open source software throughout their system. @ http://www.eg3.com/best.cgi/654/ GNUH8 MAILING LIST (eletter, 4 Stars) >> The mailing list is run by PC Services for the benefit of all developers using the GNU C/C++ compiler for for the Renesas[1] (formerly Hitachi) H8 and H8S family of processors. Whilst this compiler is primarily DOS/Windows based other GNU compilers exist on many platforms for cross-platform development. Some of the links also refer to Linux based compilers and utilities. @ http://www.eg3.com/best.cgi/655/ INDUSTRIAL ETHERNET UNIVERSITY (tutorial, 4 Stars) >> The purpose of the university is to educate the public on the benefits of deploying Industrial Ethernet in a variety of solutions for applications. Understanding Industrial Ethernet technology can become a confusing process and the university has structural course work where a student can learn at his/her own pace. @ http://www.eg3.com/best.cgi/656/ M16C FORUM (usenet, 4 Stars) >> This place is intended to provide an easy to use discussion forum for people who are using Mitsubishi microcontroller of M16C or M32C family. @ http://www.eg3.com/best.cgi/657/ MODBUS ORGANIZATION (association, 4 Stars) >> MODBUS? Protocol is a messaging structure developed by Modicon in 1979, used to establish master-slave/client-server communication between intelligent devices. It is a de facto standard, truly open and the most widely used network protocol in the industrial manufacturing environment. @ http://www.eg3.com/best.cgi/658/ PSOC $30,000 INTERNATIONAL CONTEST (contest, 4 Stars) >> Seeking a real-world design that exhibits the most extensive and inventive use of the Programmable System-on-Chip TM (PSoC) mixed- signal array with on-chip controller. Some possible application areas are: residential/industrial metering, magnetic card or RF readers, LIN Bus/automotive, white goods, motor controllers, home electronics/ entertainment systems, medical monitoring equipment, and wireless systems. Deadline is 12/15/03. @ http://www.eg3.com/best.cgi/659 SAVANNAH - FREE SOFTWARE THE RUNS ON FREE OPERATING SYSTEMS (project, 4 Stars) >> This web site (called Savannah) is a central point for development, distribution and maintenance of Free Software that runs on free operating systems. If you would like to use these facilities to host your project, then go to the Register new project menu entry that is displayed after login. @ http://www.eg3.com/best.cgi/660/ SOFTWARE RADIO: JOURNAL PAPERS (archive, 4 Stars) >> Papers include: * A Framework for Secure Download for Software Defined Radio * A Software-Defined Radio Platform with Direct Conversion: SOPRANO * Security Issues for Software Defined Radio: Design of a Secure Download System * A Software Radio Receiver with Direct Conversion and its Digital Processing @ http://www.eg3.com/best.cgi/661 SOFTWARE SAFETY HOME PAGE (personal page, 4 Stars) >> While I concentrate on Software Safety on this site it is important to note that no software works in isolation. The entire system must be designed to be safe. The system contains the software, hardware, the users, and the environment. All must be given consideration when developing software. All parts of the system must be safe. @ http://www.eg3.com/best.cgi/662/ STARTING WITH PICMICRO CONTROLLERS (tutorial, 4 Stars) >> So you think you want to start using PIC microcontrollers? Read on! This page will offer advice on how to proceed. Writing this page I had to make some assumptions about you, otherwise the number of options would be even larger than it is now. @ http://www.eg3.com/best.cgi/663/ *** COMPLETE LIST *** >> For a complete list of the month's BEST SITES go to @ http://www.eg3.com/search/bestofweb.htm BEST OF THE WEB: FEATURED UPCOMING CONFERENCES ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 11/3/2003, BOSTON: NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS >> Now in its 17th year, NGN is the place to go to find out where the Net is going next. At NGN, elite industry leaders and pioneering users come to speak, listen to one another and debate the issues whose outcome will determine the immediate future of the Internet, as well as broadband, wireless, voice and Internet security. @ http://www.eg3.com/best.cgi/664/ 11/11/2003, REDMOND: WINDOWS DRIVER DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE >> DevCon content is focused on key operating system concepts and internals, device driver development, and technology-specific implementation: Focus on current and future versions of Windows. Over 110 hours of technical sessions across four simultaneous tracks.  Over 30 hours of interactive hands-on technical labs, spread across multiple tracks.  Don?t take our word for it--take a look at the agenda and see for yourself. @ http://www.eg3.com/best.cgi/665 11/17/2003, ORLANDO: 2003 SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO TECHNICAL CONFERENCE AND PRODUCT EXPOSITION >> This technical conference and product exposition is focused on technology, standards, and business activity related to software defined radios. The conference will be held immediately prior to the November general meeting of the Software Defined Radio Forum, it provides an international perspective of the current state of the art for software defined radios. @ http://www.eg3.com/best.cgi/666 11/20/2003, PARIS: MOBILE INTERNET 2003 >> Mobile Internet 2003 is the premier meeting place for content and application providers, mobile operators and technical solution providers, looking to capitalise on the phenomenal revenue potential of content and applications via the mass-market media channels of mobile devices. @ http://www.eg3.com/best.cgi/449/ 12/2/2003, SAN DIEGO: MILITARY AND AEROSPACE ELECTRONICS SHOW >> This year's event will focus on the After Action Report: What have we learned following the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Kosavo and will these lessons help us fight our next battle? Case studies and customer testimonies will play important role in this conference. Technical sessions will focus on rugged defense electronics and COTS technology, industry and design issues. @ http://www.eg3.com/best.cgi/667/ 12/9/2003, SAN JOSE: BLUETOOTH DEVELOPERS' CONFERENCE >> Bluetooth Americas, incorporating the Bluetooth Developers Conference, is the ONLY official Bluetooth event held in the Americas. As the first official SIG event, it holds a special place in the Bluetooth world. The focus of this event is broader to reflect the growing maturity of the Bluetooth market, the programme will retain a detailed technical level of content. @ http://www.eg3.com/best.cgi/240/ *** COMPLETE CONFERENCE CALENDAR *** >> For a complete and searchable list of upcoming CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, and WEBINARS go to @ http://www.eg3.com/search/conferences.htm BEST OF THE WEB: TOP SITES: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TOP SITES BY SUBJECT CATEGORY >> Browse the TOP SITES by subject category. 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