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Re: Operating System For Electronic Devices
Posted on July 19th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Thanks for your input. My apologies. I forgot to mention that this is for writing a patent application, and hence the reason for posting here. The devices of specific interest though are the ones...

Long range, low bitrate, small data transceiver unit for telemetry data
Posted on July 19th, 2005 | 63 Comments

Is there long range (10-100km), low bitrate (1200-19200 baud), small, baterry operated radio transceiver units to send/receive digital data to be used on a telemetry application?

Chip Packaging Engineer - Toronto
Posted on July 19th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hello, Thinkpath Engineering is a large engineering services company with a 27 year track record in Engineering and Design services. We are a global provider of engineering services, design, build,...

why is a bootloader required?
Posted on July 19th, 2005 | 13 Comments

Hi, Im new to the arm family and embedded systems in general,till now iv worked a bit on the 89c51. Ive been puzzled by the following: why is a bootloader required in controllers like the...

I am having a nightmarish time with AVR Studio and JTAGICE mkII
Posted on July 19th, 2005 | 4 Comments

Greetings: I am helping a friend with a small battery charger project. I chose the Atmega88 for this project because it has a good mix of peripherals, memory size and physical size. I am using...

ANN: GCC 4.0.1 for ARM targets is available
Posted on July 19th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hi all, I'm writing to announce that I've compiled the newest version of GCC (4.0.1) for ARM targets on Win32 platform and it is available for download. As with all previous releases, it is...

ICP Wafer 5820 Instrument Graphics
Posted on July 19th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Any software, freeware that can be purchased that can operate using instrument type graphics. For example on the large comercial aircraft they use just one display screen using graphics to show fuel...

IDE for Atmel ARM processor
Posted on July 18th, 2005 | 23 Comments

Which environment would people here recommend? What sort of price would I expect to have to pay? Do they all require a monitor in external Flash or can they use the on chip ROM modules? Many...

Simulation of EDK based system with ModelsimXE
Posted on July 18th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hi, I am trying to write a custo-IP for microblaze(soft-core) based system. am using EDK7.1i, ISE7.1.03 and Modelsim-XE(verilog only). I am unable t simulate my IP with the hardware system using...

Protection Earth over PCB
Posted on July 18th, 2005 | 1 Comments

maybe this question is a bit off topic here, but for a phase control thyristor design I plan to use the Tyco Mate-N-Lok conntectors for a one hp 3 phase AC motor. These connectors have UL up to...

How to download Windows CE in PXA255
Posted on July 18th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Hi, I am very new in this Embedded world.I need to install Windows CE os in PXA255.In the card USB and RS232 are available.Do anybody know which port i need to select & how to download Windows CE ....

Sparan S3E availability update
Posted on July 18th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hi not so long time Xilinx projected 'general customer' availabily of S3E 500 devices mid-july (2005), any update on that? Antti

Write Speed of SD Card
Posted on July 17th, 2005 | 10 Comments

Hello I intend to use a SD Card to store data in real time. In worst case the data rate goes up to 32kByte / sec. I'm a little confused about the information I found about the SD Card. I found on the...

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Posted on July 17th, 2005 | 0 Comments

All brand new: - 12 iButtons + 3 small fobs, $10 US takes all - iButtons on colored fobs for $0.50 ea These are DS-1990 iButtons. Documentation available through a link on...

Chipcon & other RF transcievers?
Posted on July 16th, 2005 | 6 Comments

Hi everyone. Has anyone here used Chipcon transciever parts? I'm thinking about using the CC2500 or maybe the CC110 for a project and wanted to find out the pro/cons for these devices. Also, is...

Where am I? (How to find where you are from your mobile phone without GPS?)
Posted on July 16th, 2005 | 6 Comments

Is there a way of finding your location (city, town and/or world coordinate) within your Symbian application written for your mobile phone? Is there any service on mobile networks that will return...

When will the 8051 and othe 8-bits go away?
Posted on July 16th, 2005 | 77 Comments

This is a bit dumb, but let's discuss it anyway. The 8051 and other 8-bit microcontrollers have had a long and distinguished life so far. As more and more low power devices appear using 32-bit...

Use of Function Pointer in Embedded Systems
Posted on July 16th, 2005 | 9 Comments

Hi All, I am Ravi Kumar.N, I have an issue regarding function pointer. 1) What is the advantage of using function pointers in embedded systems. 2) What is the difference between an ordinary...

Help devising software tests
Posted on July 16th, 2005 | 16 Comments

Hi all, I have to write a test specification to define tests for a piece of software (a small kernel for an embedded system) that is currently under development. Given is an API specification...

The pendrives cannot be formatted with fat32, why?
Posted on July 16th, 2005 | 23 Comments

A lot of USB pendrives cannot be formatted with fat32, note on their manuals. What is the cause of the restriction? Any opinion is welcome. :)