Hi, I'm trying to get an estimate of the power consumption of the simputer handheld. Here are some specs: CPU: ARM9TDMI RAM: 32MB screen size: 320x240 Has ARM got a low power standby mode ?

Hi: I am planning to evaluate three options for the architecture of a research laboratory optical internal combustion engine controller system. Basically it takes a quadrature shaft encoder signal,...

I am looking for a camera (still and video) development kit for a video surveillance project. So far I have found TI, Analogue devices and NSC provide kits with ~$4000. Can anyone recommend one...

Hi, I have one Pentium Pro motherboard, which uses a Dallas RTC 14187 realtime clock chip (24-pin DIP package), with its own built-in lithium battery. When recently the battery inside the chip went...

Hello people I am in the market for board design CAD software Can anyone tell me their experience and opinion about it ? Which one is the best (complete package, from schematics, simulation,...

In this example, the prescaler is connected to the oscillator, but I want to use it elsewhere temporarily. Does anyone know if the picchip prescaler will reset itself back to zero because of this,...

In article <bev0hb$3ll$1$830fa79d@news.demon.co.uk> steve@DELETEMEfivetrees.com "steve at fivetrees" writes: Trouble is those that just sit and hack at code tend to introduce nearly as many new...

In the past I have done various small assembler projects, employing only one file to compile. Now I have to write a bit larger embedded software in C and I wonder how to organize my source code to...

I currently have a PIC16F874 connected to a 24FC512 EEPROM. I have written simple code in asembly that writes a single byte of data to the EEPROM and reads the data back and outputs it on port B. Of...

Hello all. I have been asked to help fix a problematic situation that involves a new generation (P4) PC's parallel port driving a remote digital logic circuit(5V PAL) via 50 ft coax cable. It...

Has anybody give a try to the LPC ARM family by Philips ? (http://www.semiconductors.philips.com/pip/LPC2104.html). They look interesting. I have no particular project in mind right now, and no...

Hi folks, is there any initiative regarding the standardization of embedded devices? Wouldn't it be pretty fancy to have an XML document like this? <serial_port>

On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:17:02 -0400, "BruceL" <bruce@yahoo.nospam.com> wrote: I've worked on a couple of projects that failed. One OEM project involved a very high precision, "smart",...

We're using Cosmic Compiler for Motorola HC08. In reading the linker portion of the Cosmic manual, it appears there is a function _fctcpy(), which will automatically move a segment of code from ROM...

A friendly warning to all - I bought an Edimax 9130TX NIC for some testing on an embedded platform using 3.3V PCI slots. The card is laid out as a universal PCI card, and was advertised as PCI 2.2...

Hi all, i want some guidance and materials regarding I2C with 8051based controllers. Can anyone help...thanks.. Manikandan.P

Re the earlier thread about T89C51RD2, and DIP replacements, I see Atmel have just posted the August iteration of the AT89C51RD2/ED2 data sheet. In June they added DIP40, now they have PDIP40 for...

In article <3f3408e9_1@mk-nntp-1.news.uk.worldonline.com>, none wrote: Yup. I've been on both sides, of the "hire an expert to fix things" situation, and never saw a successful rescue. -- Grant...

My USB pages have many links to development boards, articles, code examples, etc. I would look at: FTDI for full-speed bulk transfers using their driver. Mass storage class using the OS drivers...

Is it possible to have multiple pc104/pc104+ processors in a stack? I realise that pc104 is based on ISA bus and therefore this probably prevents multiple processors on the same bus, but what about...