<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest entries from macroware.blog-city.com</title><link>http://macroware.blog-city.com/</link><description></description><copyright>Copyright 2009 macroware.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:57:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest entries from macroware.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://macroware.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Engineering Leadership</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://macroware.blog-city.com/engineering_leadership.htm</guid><link>http://macroware.blog-city.com/engineering_leadership.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:57:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://macroware.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=engineering%5Fleadership</comments><dc:creator>David Carney</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I do not desire to be in a traditional project management position within the engineering profession.&nbsp; I also don&#39;t really desire to become a deep technical specialist in one very specific aspect of engineering.&nbsp; I love the process of d]]></description></item><item><title>Metal Casting Project Failure Part 2</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://macroware.blog-city.com/metal_casting_project_failure_part_2.htm</guid><link>http://macroware.blog-city.com/metal_casting_project_failure_part_2.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://macroware.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=metal%5Fcasting%5Fproject%5Ffailure%5Fpart%5F2</comments><dc:creator>David Carney</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago I tried again at the metal casting in my back yard.&nbsp; I changed the fan to a 12 V very high speed fan that would be part of a rack of computing or telecom equipment.&nbsp; I think the fan is approximately 1.5 A at 12V.&nbsp;]]></description></item><item><title>ESD and Hand Tools</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://macroware.blog-city.com/esd_and_hand_tools.htm</guid><link>http://macroware.blog-city.com/esd_and_hand_tools.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:23:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://macroware.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=esd%5Fand%5Fhand%5Ftools</comments><dc:creator>David Carney</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Last spring I came across an article in Conformity magazine that made me think about ESD risks [1].&nbsp; The article described how hand tools can be a significant source of ESD when working on circuit boards.&nbsp; Hand tools can be designed to mini]]></description></item><item><title>Metal Casting Project Failure</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://macroware.blog-city.com/metal_casting_project_failure.htm</guid><link>http://macroware.blog-city.com/metal_casting_project_failure.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:03:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://macroware.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=metal%5Fcasting%5Fproject%5Ffailure</comments><dc:creator>David Carney</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This past weekend while I was camping, I fired up the flower pot furnace that I constructed  for the first time.&nbsp; Needless to say I did not have success.&nbsp; First, I put some hot coals from the camp fire in, turned on the air intake fan and c]]></description></item><item><title>Singleton Pattern</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://macroware.blog-city.com/singleton_pattern.htm</guid><link>http://macroware.blog-city.com/singleton_pattern.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:40:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://macroware.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=singleton%5Fpattern</comments><dc:creator>David Carney</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I learned about the concept of a singleton in object oriented methodology and I&#39;ve started to understand the implementation in C#.&nbsp; A singleton is a design pattern commonly used in object oriented programming in which a class is designed suc]]></description></item><item><title>Outdoor Fire Pit Project - Part 3</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://macroware.blog-city.com/outdoor_fire_pit_project__part_3.htm</guid><link>http://macroware.blog-city.com/outdoor_fire_pit_project__part_3.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:37:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://macroware.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=outdoor%5Ffire%5Fpit%5Fproject%5F%5Fpart%5F3</comments><dc:creator>David Carney</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is a continuation of the outdoor fire pit project. On September 27 I completed the project.&nbsp; I had to buy more bricks and more mortar to complete it.&nbsp; We ran out of the 50 lb. pale of mortar toward the end of the top row.&nbsp; I had b]]></description></item><item><title>Lifetime in the Information Age = 7 years</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://macroware.blog-city.com/lifetime_in_the_information_age__7_years.htm</guid><link>http://macroware.blog-city.com/lifetime_in_the_information_age__7_years.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:43:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://macroware.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=lifetime%5Fin%5Fthe%5Finformation%5Fage%5F%5F7%5Fyears</comments><dc:creator>David Carney</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The pace of technology advancement is almost unbelievable.&nbsp; In the past 15 years the internet has grown from almost nothing into an indispensable part of life.&nbsp; I can recall the BBS&#39;s that were prevalent in my youth which were text base]]></description></item><item><title>Ethernet Network Debug</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://macroware.blog-city.com/ethernet_network_debug.htm</guid><link>http://macroware.blog-city.com/ethernet_network_debug.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:51:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://macroware.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=ethernet%5Fnetwork%5Fdebug</comments><dc:creator>David Carney</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I&#39;m working on a software project where a PC application communicates with an embedded system over ethernet.&nbsp; In order to verify some changes I made to the software, I had to monitor the network traffic on the Ethernet network.&nbsp; A tool]]></description></item><item><title>Metal Casting Project Begins</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://macroware.blog-city.com/metal_casting_project_begins.htm</guid><link>http://macroware.blog-city.com/metal_casting_project_begins.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:04:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://macroware.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=metal%5Fcasting%5Fproject%5Fbegins</comments><dc:creator>David Carney</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The weekend before last, I finally began the home metal casting project  that I started almost exactly two years ago.&nbsp; Actually I had purchased supplies for it and started construction right after I wrote that article in 2007, but it has sort of]]></description></item><item><title>Via Tuning</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://macroware.blog-city.com/via_tuning.htm</guid><link>http://macroware.blog-city.com/via_tuning.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:39:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://macroware.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=via%5Ftuning</comments><dc:creator>David Carney</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Via tuning is the design process of optimizing the geometry of a printed circuit board via (plated hole that connects routing on one layer to another) to minimize the impedance discontinuity that the via presents in the transmission channel path.&nbs]]></description></item><item><title>Signal Integrity Reference Books - Multigigabit Channel Modeling and Power Integrity</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://macroware.blog-city.com/signal_integrity_reference_books__multigigabit_channel_mode.htm</guid><link>http://macroware.blog-city.com/signal_integrity_reference_books__multigigabit_channel_mode.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:27:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://macroware.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=signal%5Fintegrity%5Freference%5Fbooks%5F%5Fmultigigabit%5Fchannel%5Fmode</comments><dc:creator>David Carney</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There are plenty of well known signal integrity books that cover the basics.&nbsp; Recently I have started to see some books become available on more advanced topics.&nbsp; Here are some that I have discovered, although I don&#39;t have any of these]]></description></item><item><title>Outdoor Fire Pit Project - Part 2</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://macroware.blog-city.com/outdoor_fire_pit_project__part_2.htm</guid><link>http://macroware.blog-city.com/outdoor_fire_pit_project__part_2.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:22:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://macroware.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=outdoor%5Ffire%5Fpit%5Fproject%5F%5Fpart%5F2</comments><dc:creator>David Carney</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is a continuation of the fire pit project.&nbsp; This past week I visited some local brick yards to get the materials.&nbsp; At two of three brickyards I was told that fire brick was not appropriate for an outdoor fire pit because it does not ho]]></description></item><item><title>Fluorescent Light Bulb Experiment Part 16</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://macroware.blog-city.com/fluorescent_light_bulb_experiment_part_16.htm</guid><link>http://macroware.blog-city.com/fluorescent_light_bulb_experiment_part_16.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:38:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://macroware.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=fluorescent%5Flight%5Fbulb%5Fexperiment%5Fpart%5F16</comments><dc:creator>David Carney</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Yesterday a 65W indoor flood light in our upstairs hallway burned out.&nbsp; I decided to replace it with a compact fluorescent flood light.Philips Energy Saver 65 Reflector Flood R3016W750 Lumen light output8000 hour lifeOne unique thing about this]]></description></item><item><title>Security Challenges for Wireless Medical Products</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://macroware.blog-city.com/security_challenges_for_wireless_medical_products.htm</guid><link>http://macroware.blog-city.com/security_challenges_for_wireless_medical_products.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:18:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://macroware.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=security%5Fchallenges%5Ffor%5Fwireless%5Fmedical%5Fproducts</comments><dc:creator>David Carney</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There was an article in the July issue of IEEE Communications magazine describing the design challenges for security in wireless medical products, specifically geared toward implantable devices.&nbsp; The article was actually an interesting discussio]]></description></item><item><title>Floating Point Numbers on 16 Bit Processors and Digital Number Systems for DSP</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://macroware.blog-city.com/floating_point_numbers_on_16_bit_processors_and_digital_numb.htm</guid><link>http://macroware.blog-city.com/floating_point_numbers_on_16_bit_processors_and_digital_numb.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:57:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://macroware.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=floating%5Fpoint%5Fnumbers%5Fon%5F16%5Fbit%5Fprocessors%5Fand%5Fdigital%5Fnumb</comments><dc:creator>David Carney</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I came across an interesting paper in the July edition of IEEE Communications Magazine.&nbsp; The article describes some of the challenges of doing DSP style calculations with number systems [1].&nbsp; I didn&#39;t take time to fully understand every]]></description></item><item><title>Outdoor Fire Pit Project - Part 1</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://macroware.blog-city.com/outdoor_fire_pit_project__part_1.htm</guid><link>http://macroware.blog-city.com/outdoor_fire_pit_project__part_1.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:50:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://macroware.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=outdoor%5Ffire%5Fpit%5Fproject%5F%5Fpart%5F1</comments><dc:creator>David Carney</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My in laws have been doing some upgrades at their trailer by the lake which have lead to the need to move the fire pit.&nbsp; I decided that a fun project would be to make a masonry fire pit.&nbsp; I did quite a bit of web searching and found a pictu]]></description></item><item><title>Bottom Bracket Bicycle Repair</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://macroware.blog-city.com/bottom_bracket_bicycle_repair.htm</guid><link>http://macroware.blog-city.com/bottom_bracket_bicycle_repair.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:48:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://macroware.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=bottom%5Fbracket%5Fbicycle%5Frepair</comments><dc:creator>David Carney</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[About 3 years ago I decided that running was not a good form of excersize for me due to chronic leg issues, so I decided to switch to biking.&nbsp; I proceeded to buy the coolest looking $70 bike I could find at Fleet Farm.&nbsp; It was a mountain bi]]></description></item><item><title>PID Control in an FPGA</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://macroware.blog-city.com/pid_control_in_an_fpga.htm</guid><link>http://macroware.blog-city.com/pid_control_in_an_fpga.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:01:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://macroware.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=pid%5Fcontrol%5Fin%5Fan%5Ffpga</comments><dc:creator>David Carney</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I am working on an application that requires PID control.&nbsp; The design is an enhancement of a design that already has PID control implemented in a processor.&nbsp; There is already an FPGA in the design that provides glue logic and IO expansion f]]></description></item><item><title>Visual Studio C# Hello World Program</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://macroware.blog-city.com/visual_studio_c_hello_world_program.htm</guid><link>http://macroware.blog-city.com/visual_studio_c_hello_world_program.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:38:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://macroware.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=visual%5Fstudio%5Fc%5Fhello%5Fworld%5Fprogram</comments><dc:creator>David Carney</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In my new position as a software engineer I am working on a PC application that provides a GUI for an embedded test system.&nbsp; The PC application is written in C# with Microsoft Visual Studio.&nbsp; In order to start familiarizing myself with the]]></description></item><item><title>Digital TV Reception Experimenting</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://macroware.blog-city.com/digital_tv_reception_experimenting.htm</guid><link>http://macroware.blog-city.com/digital_tv_reception_experimenting.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:12:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://macroware.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=digital%5Ftv%5Freception%5Fexperimenting</comments><dc:creator>David Carney</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I started investigating digital TV reception at a rural area and documented it in a previous article.&nbsp; Yesterday I did some experimenting at various times with a Jensen TV931 amplified antenna connected to a Magnavox digital TV tuner to analog c]]></description></item><item><title>Linux on an Old Computer</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://macroware.blog-city.com/linux_on_an_old_computer.htm</guid><link>http://macroware.blog-city.com/linux_on_an_old_computer.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:10:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://macroware.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=linux%5Fon%5Fan%5Fold%5Fcomputer</comments><dc:creator>David Carney</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I have an old laptop computer that I purchased in 1999 (Mobile Pentium II 366  MHz, 128 MB RAM, 6 GB hard drive) running Windows 98.&nbsp; The computer is barely  usable anymore because it is so old and slow.&nbsp; I decided to try to install Linux]]></description></item><item><title>Software Design Opportunity</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://macroware.blog-city.com/software_design_opportunity.htm</guid><link>http://macroware.blog-city.com/software_design_opportunity.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:18:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://macroware.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=software%5Fdesign%5Fopportunity</comments><dc:creator>David Carney</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I have been given the opportunity to broaden my experience base in electronic product development by spending a year as a software design engineer in my company&#39;s software group.&nbsp; I have created a new category on this blog to track my activi]]></description></item><item><title>Robots in Farming</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://macroware.blog-city.com/robots_in_farming.htm</guid><link>http://macroware.blog-city.com/robots_in_farming.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:58:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://macroware.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=robots%5Fin%5Ffarming</comments><dc:creator>David Carney</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I once read about automated farm equipment controlled by GPS to allow really precise and straight plowing and harvesting of fields.&nbsp; That seemed like a fairly straightforward application of technology to farming.&nbsp; Last year I saw an article]]></description></item><item><title>Social Networking and Product Development</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://macroware.blog-city.com/social_networking_and_product_development.htm</guid><link>http://macroware.blog-city.com/social_networking_and_product_development.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:45:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://macroware.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=social%5Fnetworking%5Fand%5Fproduct%5Fdevelopment</comments><dc:creator>David Carney</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I recently saw an advertisement article in Design News Magazine that described the value of social networking technologies through the internet in product development.&nbsp; The article was written by PTC, and described how social networking framewor]]></description></item><item><title>Digital Television Reception</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://macroware.blog-city.com/digital_television_reception.htm</guid><link>http://macroware.blog-city.com/digital_television_reception.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:29:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://macroware.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=digital%5Ftelevision%5Freception</comments><dc:creator>David Carney</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This was the first weekend since the analog television transmission was shut off that I had a chance to see how the digital signals come in at the lake in central Wisconsin that we camp at (camp in the trailer/running water/electricty sense).&nbsp; F]]></description></item></channel></rss>