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Howto measure system load
Posted on October 2nd, 2006 | 14 Comments

On 2 Oct 2006 02:37:12 -0700, larwe <zwsdotcom@gmail.com> wrote: Ooog. You could then connect _that_ pin to a resistor and capacitor pair chosen to match a given measurement period (e.g. "What's my...

SATA / SATA II for embedded system ?
Posted on October 2nd, 2006 | 3 Comments

Hello Anton, I at least found a few of these converters cheap on ebay. One of them uses a Marvell 88i8030 on it (which seems to be an old but widely used chip). Regards, Martin

Bad Block Handling When formatting Nand flash
Posted on October 2nd, 2006 | 4 Comments

<psjkumar@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1158051222.519048.232050@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com... The erase unit of the flash is a block, which consists of multiple pages. There is a bad block...

Mindstorms NXT
Posted on October 2nd, 2006 | 6 Comments

"Paul Curtis" <plc@rowley.co.uk> wrote in message news:44fd9d40$0$534$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net... The Lego shop at the Bluewater shopping centre has a couple of kits available for...

Question regarding volatile parameters
Posted on October 2nd, 2006 | 7 Comments

dalai lamah wrote: You have to declare a new volatile point to cast to volatile: #define ToVInt(x) (*((volatile int *) &(x))) void aFunction( aStruct* param ) { ToVInt(param->x) = 3;

Little endian on IO output
Posted on October 2nd, 2006 | 8 Comments

Steven P wrote: The 91C111 is not a processor, as seen from the bus. It runs as a bus slave, not master. The chip runs perfectly well in 16 bit mode. Actually, the internal registers on the chip...

Programming & erasing flash memory of microcontroller through parallel port of pc
Posted on October 1st, 2006 | 1 Comments

nasif4003@gmail.com wrote: You can Jtag program the chip as long as you have the proper level shifters. The Mac7121 is 2.5V and parallel port is 5V logic. Straight connect will surely burn out the...

Signs of bad IC?
Posted on October 1st, 2006 | 4 Comments

carsonbj@gmail.com wrote: The short might not be real, maybe an artifact of the measuring device. (I have seen it with 'big chips', CPU, FPGA...) So I would double check the wiring and the pinout,...

Join this new forum dedicated to microcontrollers/electronics
Posted on October 1st, 2006 | 9 Comments

werty wrote: Werty, The thought occured to me that maybe you have bipolar disorder, your posts seem to ramble as if they're written on the upswing, and there might be a periodicity to them. No...

What happens when the flash wears out?
Posted on October 1st, 2006 | 2 Comments

Richard Krehbiel wrote: On the lowest (hardware) level, you get read errors and write failures. How these are propagated through the OS is an entirely different question. As to diagnosis, I'd...

Welcome to Embedworld Forum.
Posted on October 1st, 2006 | 10 Comments

On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:43:00 +0200, in comp.arch.embedded "Meindert Sprang" <ms@NOJUNKcustomORSPAMware.nl> wrote: And Adverts? martin

Microcontroller with I2C and ISO7816 support?
Posted on October 1st, 2006 | 11 Comments

linnix wrote: To be exact, it supports OCD using Debugwire and JTAG (limited to <= 32kB parts) -- Best Regards, Ulf Samuelsson ulf@a-t-m-e-l.com This message is intended to be my own personal view...

Flash Memory - Loading an Application of 2M size into 1M Flash memory
Posted on September 30th, 2006 | 14 Comments

KBG wrote: Look up some of the literature on LZ77. "The Compression Book" is a useful reference. What the decompressor requires is dependent on the compressor, but most systems will function with...

Jazz Semiconductor Aquired by Acqucor - The Game's Afoot!
Posted on September 30th, 2006 | 2 Comments

johnspeth wrote... What I'm seeing is that equity firms are becoming involved with semiconductor companies and engaging in profiteering. The winners are the fund managers, the losers will...

WTD: HP 64000 software
Posted on September 30th, 2006 | 4 Comments

We wrote a PC driver to read HP 64000 5 1/4" floppy disks. about 20 years ago. The good new is they should be in our backups from 20+ years ago. Basically it was a simple file transfer program. I...

USART, single master (8051), multiple slave (PIC16F876) - suggestions
Posted on September 29th, 2006 | 1 Comments

There's some interesting stuff here: <http://www.htservices.com/Tools/VBandC/SerialCommunications.htm> On that page there's a reference to "DF1 - Allen-Bradley (Rockwell)"; if you search around the...

Freescale Semiconductor Bought Out by Blackstone for $17.6B
Posted on September 29th, 2006 | 3 Comments

"Jim Granville" wrote... Just changed it, thanks for the catch! Let me take a closer look at this. Keep in mind that this is a business article and not one of my market analysis, so let me see how...

Lumex LCD controller
Posted on September 29th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hello Group, I'm trying to find controller IC information on the Lumex LCM-H12864GSF/H-Y graphical LCD. This is a 128x64 pixel, backlit display. Lumex has a two page datasheet for the LCD on their...

StrongARM SA-110 documentation?
Posted on September 29th, 2006 | 4 Comments

Andrew Smallshaw wrote: Great help already. Thanks.

Relay and the surge current
Posted on September 29th, 2006 | 6 Comments

Paul Keinanen wrote: The simple estimate shows that the acting force should be at least at the order of several kg to produce any noticeable excursion in the 100us of time. VLV