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IA1/IA2: More questions than I have any business putting in one post
Posted on August 25th, 2003 | 0 Comments

I found a IA1 tucked away in a corner at the local curio store/radio shack, and was toying with purchasing it. Midori and jailbait both look fairly interesting, but I don't see anything like a...

Flash Ram IDE drives.
Posted on August 25th, 2003 | 4 Comments

A while back I posted a question about if anyone knew of a Flash Ram IDE drive that plugs directly into the motherboard's IDE socket, without a cable (other than power). I found them, and I'm happy...

Elan SC300 and SC310
Posted on August 25th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Hi, is it possible to replace a SC300 (without PCB modification) with a SC310? We are not using CGA nor PCMCIA of the SC300. Best Regards Juergen

Fast path to Ethernet
Posted on August 25th, 2003 | 5 Comments

I've been working on a multidrop serial network for home automation that runs around 19.2kbps to 56kbps, it works great, i love it, yada yada yada. But I need more speed! As the network grows to...

Question about host controller of USB
Posted on August 25th, 2003 | 0 Comments

From the EHCI specification of Intel, it said that UHCI is also supported through "Companion Controller". Now, a question is whether a old device driver(USB 1.1) written for UHCI can be directly used...

32 bit counter, Infineon XC167 App. note search
Posted on August 25th, 2003 | 1 Comments

I have need for a 32 bit free running counter, preferably with latched reads. The part (Infineon XC167) has lots of 16 bit timers and also 16 bit timers in the capture/compare units that look like...

Embedded CD Player
Posted on August 25th, 2003 | 4 Comments

I'm interested in attaching a low-cost IDE CDROM to an AVR board. The AVR needs to pick the tracks and control it, but it's used as an embedded CD Player for playing audio. Are there any good links...

Chip Malfunction PIC16F648A , date code 03142Y3
Posted on August 25th, 2003 | 17 Comments

We now know the cause of the problems with the PIC16F648A. The internal EEPROM writing procedure damages some bits in the port status register, most probably bit RP0 is affected. And seemingly...

Looking for a freewar C or C++ compiler for 68HC11
Posted on August 25th, 2003 | 3 Comments

Hello folks, I am new to MCUs and looking for a freeware HC11 C or C++ compiler. Any suggestions and pointers where I can download one? Since this is a hobby and cant invest hundreds of dollars a...

Re: remote firmware update: how to instruct the compiler?
Posted on August 25th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Dear Jan, thanks for your explanation, yes, indeed. ok.

Atmel AT91RM9200 bootloader / cogcomp module CSB337
Posted on August 25th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Hi, Any experience here. I`m having a Cogcomp CSB337 with an Atmel AT91RM9200. The Cogcomp board ahs a pre installed bootloader, but I want to use the on chip bootloader/bootuploader. Since there...

89C4051 Newbie needs help
Posted on August 25th, 2003 | 9 Comments

Hi, I have connected a 16X2 LCD to my 4051 on a breadboard. The P1 is connected to the data lines of the LCD in 8 bit format. RW is grounded, RS to P3.0 and E to P3.1. I wrote a short program to...

barometric pressure sensor needed
Posted on August 24th, 2003 | 13 Comments

Hi all, I'm looking at designing a weather station with a Atmel ATmega32L microcontroller. I've found temperature and humidity sensors, but haven't found anything to measure the barometric pressure....

Re: TI MSP430 A/D data storage
Posted on August 24th, 2003 | 0 Comments

"David R. McCoy" <david-mccoy@cfl.rr.com> writes: If the data does not change too fast, you could just store the difference between each successive sample, instead of the absolute value. How are...

Re: TI MSP430 A/D data storage
Posted on August 24th, 2003 | 0 Comments

You're running at 200ksps, but only storing 1k samples of each channel? Do you need to constantly update the store, ie do you store the latest 1k samples from each channel? The FTG (Flash Timing...

Re: FPGAs, RAMs and FPGA boards for sale
Posted on August 24th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Martin Schoeberl wrote: Speed/package/part no ?

Re: 8051 timer and external interrupt problem???
Posted on August 24th, 2003 | 1 Comments

ROFL!

Connector
Posted on August 24th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Does anybody have any idea what this connector is called and who makes it? Here's it looks like to me: http://www.uoguelph.ca/~fosterb/images/connector.jpg I've been searching digikey, however I...

Re: FreeRTOS for MPC8xx PowerPC and ARM
Posted on August 24th, 2003 | 0 Comments

None.

Looking for ARM eval board and JTAG debugger recommendations
Posted on August 24th, 2003 | 2 Comments

I'm looking for recommendations on a good eval board containing an ARM based CPU with the following qualifications: * Onboard flash nice but not necessary (256K would be good) * Onboard RAM 128K or...