Monthly Archives: November 2011

PIC and Configurable Logic – a Match made in Heaven?

Posted on November 28, 2011 by kalle.lindbeck

Microchip has released the PIC10F(LF)32X and PIC1XF(LF)150X MCUs, each feature new peripherals. Examples as Configurable Logic Cells (CLCs), Complementary Waveform Generators (CWGs) and Numerically Controlled Oscillators (NCOs). This makes it possible to implement functionality that was not possible before with … Continue reading →

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OpenRISC Reference Board

Posted on November 25, 2011 by e8johan

ORSoC and the OpenRISC architecture has interested me for years. Basically, it is a soft CPU produced without targeting a specific FPGA architecture (as Nios and MicroBlaze does). It is a RISC design with support from gcc. From version 3.1, … Continue reading →

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BeRTOS Drivers

Posted on November 23, 2011 by e8johan

One of the aspects that sets BeRTOS apart from a bare metal approach to developing small embedded systems is the hardware abtraction layer, HAL, and the available drivers. In addition to providing a real-time kernel, BeRTOS comes with a set … Continue reading →

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Soldering Guide

Posted on November 21, 2011 by e8johan

The EEVblog is a great resource if you are interested in electronics and making. Among all the video blog entries, there is a two part guide to soldering. A good place to get started from. Follow the links here to … Continue reading →

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Raspberry PI PCB

Posted on November 18, 2011 by e8johan

The Raspberry Pi project continues to make progress. A couple of days ago, the gerbers and finals layouts for the PCBs was released. Being credit card sized, the board looks rather crammed, but thanks to the central SoC, the biggest … Continue reading →

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BeRTOS by Example

Posted on November 16, 2011 by e8johan

In this installment we will look at an example project based on BeRTOS. The goal is to learn a bit about how processes works and at the same time play around with the drivers provided by BeRTOS. For new readers, … Continue reading →

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DIY USB HID

Posted on November 14, 2011 by e8johan

The Teensy development board is an Arduino cousin. It is based on the ATMEGA from Atmel, has a real small physical size (18x31mm) and development tools for Windows, Linux and OS X.

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A Bone to the Beagle

Posted on November 11, 2011 by e8johan

The BeagleBoard project is bringing a new board to the world. The low-cost BeagleBone board will provide Arm power to the embedded community. It boasts a 700MHz Cortex-A8, 256MB of RAM, Ethernet and USB, but also headers just like the … Continue reading →

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BeRTOS

Posted on November 9, 2011 by e8johan

BeRTOS is an open source real-time kernel, coupled with drivers and code modules for various common tasks. The target is small systems – BeRTOS can even be used with Arduino. It is being developed by the Italian company Develer. Targets are AVR, Arm7 … Continue reading →

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Uzebox – an 8-bit Gaming Console

Posted on November 7, 2011 by e8johan

The Uzebox is an old school gaming console hardware designed for today’s hobbyists. It is based around an ATmega MCU and an RGB-to-NTSC (or PAL) converter chip. The system has 4kB of RAM and 64kB of FLASH. The system can … Continue reading →

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