I welcome you to this part of my RoadTest review. In this part I will describe Renesas RA2L1 microcontroller in details. In this part I will not describe evaluation board because it is described in dedicated blog post Review of Renesas EK-RA2L1 Devel...
New or first time roadtesters frequently ask me how do they write a roadtest review?
RoadTest reviews can be written in a variety of way. Sometimes they are project reports, sometimes they are tutorials, sometimes they go through an indept analysis o...
To New Roadtesters,
When you are a new roadtester, questions come up all the time. It's part of the territory. Some of these questions are administrative in nature, such as when will the product be shipped to me. For those questions, feel free to...
Wurth Sensor FeatherWing– RoadTest
Terms and Conditions
These are the terms and conditions which govern the Wurth Sensor FeatherWing RoadTest contest. This Contest requires participants to submit an application indicating their previo...
I welcome you to second part of this tutorial. This article was made as part of my RoadTest review about EK-RA2L1 board. If you are interested in details and my opinions about development board you can read my review Review of Renesas EK-RA2L1 Develo...
I welcome you to this tutorial. In this tutorial you will see developing application using Renesas e2studio targeting Renesas RA2L1 microcontroller. This article was made as part of my RoadTest review about EK-RA2L1 board. If you are interested in de...
I welcome you to the main part of my Roadtest review about Bridgetek BT817 evaluation board. In this part of review, I will describe BT817 graphics engine itself and I won’t describe evaluation board here because it is described in dedicated chapter....
As many of you know, element14 is migrating to a new platform this week. In preparation for this migration, I concluded all enrollments in new roadtests. Once the migration is complete, I will begin launching new roadtests again. There will...
I welcome you to this part of my RoadTest review about Bridgetek BT817 evaluation board. In this chapter I will describe board itself. I will not describe BT817 chip and its features here because chip is described in dedicated chapter Review of Bridg...
I welcome you to my review about EK-RA2L1 evaluation board featuring microcontroller from RA2L1 family. In this part I will describe evaluation board itself. I will also describe some of my opinions about board, some pros and cons, some bugs and many...
I welcome you to this part of my Bridgetek BT817 RoadTest review. In previous blog post I described how to draw to the display in the simplest way using display list. In this blog post I will show more advanced way using coprocessor which supports mo...
The EVK includes a number of programable current sources and switched resistive loads on board. Net names:SD3 - BUCK3 Output.VIL_SD3 - Output of the current shunt amplifier for Buck3's programable current sink. BUCK 3 - ConfigurationBuc...
The 32.768 kHz crystal oscillator is a popular low-power clock source for many sub-systems in an electronics design. Frequent users of the 32K clock include: Real Time Clock (RTC), processor, RF modems/transceivers, and GPS receivers, just to name a ...
Architecture overview
Lattice vision
PFU (Programmable Functional Unit)
Clocking
sysMEM Memory
sysDSP
PIO (programmable I/O cells)
Device configuration
SEU (Single Event Upset)
Links
The following post gives an overview of the Lat...
Characterizing an off-grid solar PV system using the Aim-TTi QPX750SPThis blog details my experience using the QPX750SP to characterize performance of a small off-grid solar PV energy system. Main components in the system are: two 85 W solar PV...
Greetings. Last week, I had a great conversation with one of our managers concerning a thermocouple test system bundle. It combines data acquisition hardware and software from National Instruments and thermocouples from Omega. I learned it's...
I’m using openHAB on my personal server to control various parts of my “intelligent” home, and while I can use the Android app just fine, I thought it would be interesting to reproduce its user interface with a very resource limited platform, namely ...
UPDATE Oct 1, 2021: I have concluded launching all the roadtests I can prior to our platform migration. No new roadtests will be launch until mid to late November. Greetings. During the month of November, element14 is migrating to a ...
My RoadTest of the MAX77714 EVK just keeps getting more bizarre. Both of the push button switches on my EVK fail to operate. A few weeks ago I was briefly experimenting with the soft power button features and couldn't get it work. Turns out, it i...
I welcome you to this part of my RoadTest review of Bridgetek BT817 evaluation board. In this part I will briefly describe one of my experiments which I have done for gaining experiences with BT817 chip and evaluation board. In this blog post I will ...
