Each week, the Planet Analog section of the print version of EETimes features two small text boxes, entitled “Also of Interest” and “Elementals”, in addition to one or two feature articles, an editor's column, and new products. Each of these boxes cites items from publications outside the Planet Analog and EETimes portfolio. The first box highlights a few items of general interest to the engineer, while the second highlights some basic and tutorial electronic-engineering material.

In this week's print edition (April 14, 2008) you'll see these items (note: there are also links to previous weeks' editions, at the bottom):

Also of Interest:

• The U.S. military's Future Combat Systems links soldiers and robots in a vast wireless network:
  “Future Combat Systems Changes the Face of Battle,” Design News , January 7, 2008
• Standard errors and detection limits are reduced by use of multiple stages:
  “Induction Charge Detector With Multiple Sensing Stages,”
  NASA Tech Briefs , January 2008
• Varying temperature can be controlled precisely at relatively low power demand:
  “Improved Thermal Modulator for Gas Chromatography,”
  NASA Tech Briefs , January 2008

Elementals:

• Use Manchester encoding a in low-cost, low bit-rate serial communications:
  “Back to the future: Manchester encoding – Part 1,”
  Embedded Systems Design , February 2008
• Instrumentation amplifiers can abet many sensor applications, from ratiometric bridges to low-side current sensing:
  “Zero-Drift IA Takes The Strain Out Of Sensor Measurements,”
  Electronic Design , February 28, 2008
• A shift from PID controllers to systems based on fuzzy logic algorithms:
  “Designing DSP-based motor control using fuzzy logic,” Embedded Systems Design , March 2008

Previous Editions

• April 7, 2008
• March 31, 2008
• March 24, 2008
• March 17, 2008
• March 10, 2008