Dear Dennis...
EN-Genius Network's Dennis Feucht answers your design
queries in his new Circuit Design Clinic!
December, 2008
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EN-Genius Network presents a new, interactive
analog design service to readers! Send us your design questions (with
relevant data; schematics in JPEG or GIF, please) for some free
engineering advice from EN-Genius Network's circuit
consultant, Dennis Feucht, on how you might solve a design problem or
improve circuit performance. Submissions may be edited for clarity or
brevity, and submitters and their email addresses will remain anonymous
(unless otherwise indicated). Please send your questions to Dennis here.
Optimal μCs and μC Website Information
by Dennis L Feucht
A comedian of former years, Allan Sherman, used to take classical-music tunes and write humorous lyrics to them. One of them has a line that goes:
When you’re driving in the desert and your car runs out of gas, Lotsa luck, pal. Lotsa luck.
To this I add the line:
When you’re searching for a website that has data, not pizzaz, Lotsa luck, pal. Lotsa luck!
Some electronic component manufacturers have more to learn about providing technical data over the Internet. This applies in particular to microcontroller suppliers. Today, I got onto the Freescale website. In some ways it is simpler and better-organized than the sites of some of Freescale’s competitors. I wanted to look at the instruction set of the category of parts that includes the MC56F8013. It is a 16-bit DSP/μC combination, in the category of the new Microchip dsPIC series. Lotsa luck.
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