Monthly Archives: November 2011

PIC and Configurable Logic – a Match made in Heaven?

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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Summarizing BeRTOS

Over the last couple of weeks, we have been looking at the BeRTOS free real-time operating system and its function modules. In this entry, we summarize the articles and community resources for future reference. The BeRTOS is an exciting project, … Continue reading

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OpenRISC Reference Board

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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