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Playback: Reality-Based System Testing
by Wes Howl
A record-and-playback test methodology lets you exercise your system with realistic test data. But making a system playback-ready offers some challenges of its
own.
Features
A Generic Protocol Engine for Synchronous Protocols
by Andrey Jivsov
Despite the diversity of communications protocols, there are many similarities among them. You can build one protocol engine to handle the commonality and then adjust it to the needs of each project.
Timing Tricks for PIC
by Robert Scott
The upside of using a microcontroller with single-cycle
instructions is the ease and precision with which your code can synchronize its timing. This article presents five timing tricks that will help you do just that.
A 'C' Test: The 0 x 10 Best Questions for Would-be Embedded Programmers
by Nigel Jones
Pencils up, everyone. Here's a test to identify programmers with the potential to enter the arcane world of embedded systems.
Internet Appliance Design
Connecting...
Hold Everything
by Michael Barr
Michael Barr puts off his planned series of articles on UDP/IP as he searches for the tools he'll need to accomplish the task. In the meantime, he discusses calibration and tweaking.
Web by Proxy
by Bill Gatliff
Adding a TCP/IP and web server stack to
an embedded system is an expensive proposition. If your product already communicates, it may be better and cheaper to use a proxy.
Exposing MIB Data to a Web-based Interface, Part 2
by Kedron Wolcott
This month we conclude this discussion of how web-based management can benefit from the right architecture and an SNMP MIB inheritance library.
Real-Time Java War Yields Uneasy Truce
by Alexander Wolfe
Real-time Java is not an oxymoron, according to the two groups presently developing competing sets of specifications.
Embedded Internet Tools
New Internet appliance design products.
Columns
Programmer's Toolbox
Old Kids on the Block
by Jack W. Crenshaw
Spectra
Music and
Noise
by Don Morgan
Break Points
ESC Chicago
by Jack G. Ganssle
State of the Art
Quitting Time
by P.J. Plauger
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Discontinuity Bites Back
by Lindsey Vereen
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