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Closing Control Loops
Posted on March 9th, 2006 | 57 Comments

So, I've put the finishing touches on my book, and the publisher's marketing department is asking me questions. Some of them I don't have good answers to, because (a) I'm on the fringe of my target...

New embedded system development facility
Posted on March 9th, 2006 | 6 Comments

Hi friends, My office plans to invest in setting up a new embedded system development facility. Our prime business is industrial desing & manufacturing .The new facility will develop industrial...

JTAG connection to Blackfin BF533
Posted on March 8th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hi, Does anyone have a schematic showing the hookup to a byteblaster or wiggler compatible JTAG adapter to the BF533? I am not sure what pullups or pulldowns to use on the individual JTAG signals.

Enabling one of the Dual CAN
Posted on March 8th, 2006 | 1 Comments

hi all! here i want to test my CAN software and my controller is MB90F428 that has dual CAN(CAN0 ,CAN1).i want to use one of that two.How to enable a particular CAN that may be CAN0 or CAN1.please ...

Sony ACX705AKM LCD users/ spec questions?
Posted on March 8th, 2006 | 2 Comments

We are planning to use this LCD in an embedded project with a Gumstix processor and I am having more than a little trouble getting support from Sony. The 1st problem is knowing how to drive the LED...

DV encoder/decoder
Posted on March 8th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hi Anybody known a chip that can encode and decode a video stream between the "DV compression" (DV25) format and some "RAW" format ? I have found some more advanced codecs and controllers that are...

ecos/RTEMS training in India???
Posted on March 8th, 2006 | 4 Comments

Hello all, I am monica from germany. I am planning to go to India in near future. Does anybody aware of any training courses on ecos or RTEMS RTOS in India? Thanks a lot for your kind...

MSP430 JTAG to use at IAR Kickstart
Posted on March 8th, 2006 | 10 Comments

Hi, I am testing IAR Kickstart to program MSP430 EasyWeb3 board . I want to program and debug this board by using MSP430-JTAG (cost 14.95 $)...

Linking objects with GNU LD
Posted on March 8th, 2006 | 7 Comments

Hi everybody, I am using the GNU GCC toolchain configured for m68k (cross compiler). I want to link several objects into an executable file. Unfortunately there are several c-functions compiled into...

Linux Boot on MPC8260
Posted on March 8th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hi I'm using a EP8260 Embedded PLANET board with pre-installed PlanetCore boot loader. I don't have the possibility of use the u-boot because i don't have a tool for write the flash. For the...

motorola PQ2FADS-ZU ADS 8260 and VADS 8260 board differences???
Posted on March 8th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hello all, I found a ecos BSP for motorola VADS 8260 module.I want to port it to motorola PQ2FADS-ZU ADS 8260. However there is no documentation available for motorola VADS 8260 board on motorola...

uml & embedded
Posted on March 8th, 2006 | 0 Comments

hi. i need any suggestions about embedded sytem devolopement and uml (especially arm & rhapsody). i'm downloaded trial of rhapsody but i couldnot use it. are there any body using rhapsody for...

motorola PQ2FADS-ZU ADS 8260 ecos BSP???
Posted on March 8th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hello all, I am monica from germany, We want to bring up ecos RTOS on motorola PQ2FADS-ZU ADS 8260 evaluation board. Heard that there are several people who did the same earlier. Can anybody share...

How to stymie a disassembler
Posted on March 8th, 2006 | 36 Comments

Hi All, I'm collecting little tricks that will stymie a disassembler (that is, prevent it from disassembling the code correctly) to use in a book project I'm working on ("The Art of Disassembly"). ...

LCD Module Advise
Posted on March 7th, 2006 | 6 Comments

Hello, I am trying to design a data input terminal with a custom membrane keypad that will interface to some kind of embedded controller as well as a little LCD Display. I have the membrane keypad...

Development boards with PIC
Posted on March 7th, 2006 | 3 Comments

Hello, Does anybody know where I can buy a development board with the following items ? Or at least similar capacity ? - PIC processor with AD, 10bits - USB connector - Ethernet connector - lots of...

ARM7TDMI and ARM7TDMI-S ?
Posted on March 7th, 2006 | 2 Comments

Hi, what is main difference between ARM7TDMI and ARM7TDMI-S ? what does - mean here ? Thanks. Daniel

Re: ARM code size
Posted on March 7th, 2006 | 4 Comments

Hi, I am moving from 8051 to ARM, I have a question related to code size. In 8051, if code size is about 64K bytes, it should be big enough. However, for ARM(take LPC2214 as example), it has 256k...

Low Level Verification ???
Posted on March 7th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hi all, What's that mean : "Low Level Verification of ASIC Soc"?. The SoC should be tested on development board containing FPGA, CPU and so. In this case how would you proceed using C programming?....

Are Zigbee profiles publicly available?
Posted on March 7th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hi all, I downloaded the Zigbee v1 specification and quickly skimmed it (just trying to get a quick overview). I see that there is a "Home Controls Stack Profile" defined in E.3 which looks like it...