I'm evaluating the Renesas RX65N MCU EV Kit.In this post: A Blinky, with the GCC toolchain.It's not a real blinky - it's a switchy. The User LED is on when the User Button is pressed.A Morse code trainer . Create the Project In the pr...
I'm evaluating the Renesas RX65N MCU EV Kit.In this post: how to start a project in the Renesas IDE e2 Studio.I'll use the Renesas CCRX toolchain. Start a Project File -> New C/C++ Project -> Renesas RX -> Renesas CC-RX C/C++...
The port of the MBED InterruptIn is complete.In this blog you can see the internals of this class and how to set up configuration and handling. My port is for a Hercules TMS570LC43. I use the HAL utility and api for that controller where possibl...
In Storage Insights #6 we dove deeper into SATA (Serial ATA), discussing layering and compatibility. In Storage Insights #7 we have a link to a video presentation that details several technology advantages of industrial SD cards.SD cards, or Secure D...
The port of the MBED DigitalOut is complete.In this blog you can see the internals of this class and how to create a blinky. Blinky #include "includes.h" // this is the include that replaces MBED.h for ported applications.
// st...
I've ported the MBED DigitalOut class to the Hercules controller that I'll be using.It could be any controller or SBC, but having one example makes it tangible. I've try to do this with as limited as possible impact to the SemTech library. That ...
There are many good MBED examples. It's a popular platform, supported by many manufacturers.Here's my story on how to port one of those excellent MBED example program to another platform. The program I want to port is the SemTech LoRa Ping-Pong ...
TI Hercules microcontrollers are "functional safety" devices for automotive, industrial and medical use.When you create a new firmware project for this family, you use the TI HALCoGen tool to configure the peripherals and create the source....
The new storage technology stores data in quartz glass using laser light, which burns voxels into the medium that hold multiple bits of information. (Image credit: Microsoft) A recent collaboration by Microsoft and Warner Brothers resulted in s...
If you have ever populated a PCB with lots of SMD components by hand, you know how frustrating and time-consuming it can be. Thankfully, when its time to move into production we employ special robots called “pick and place” machines to do the job for...
Arm will offer support for custom instructions for their ARMv8-M embedded CPUs targeted at embedded and IoT applications. (Image credit: Arm) During this year’s TechCon event in Santa Fe, Arm announced it would start supporting custom instructi...
(Image credit: AlexanderAIUS via Wikipedia) Graphene is one of the world’s most robust materials even though its only 1-atom thick, and coupled with its highly conductive nature, one of the most sought out materials for a myriad of applications...
For several years now, the microprocessor manufacturing world has been coming to grips with the fact that Moore’s law no longer governs the rate at which we are able to shrink transistors in size. This has led to researchers worldwide rushing to find...
I have decided to write about the usage of Raspberry pi as both wireless programmer/debugger and tool for automated testing for Cortex-M MCUs. There are few articles and tutorials but still, this topic's online coverage is rather poor considering its...
I bought my first hardware debugger. The TI XDS110 Debug Probe.In this second post I'm checking the UART interface and the GPIO pins. Two functions that can help to automate the testing of our designs. When you're building a commercial p...
It seems like just a little while ago that we announced the Ultra96 development board. We followed it up with a Avnet Ultra96 Dev Board RoadTest, which got 137 applicants, and we made a cool ultra96 Infographic (Thanks pchan) Recently, Avnet lau...
MIT assistant professor, Max Shulaker’s presentation at DARPA’s Electronics Resurgence Initiative Summit was welcomed by a round of applause when he showcased a silicon wafer that can compete with the world’s state-of-the-art foundries. The wafer is ...
Electrical engineers from the University of California, Irvine have created a brand-new wireless transceiver that can hike up radio frequencies to 100 gigahertz, four times the speed of the soon to be launched 5G wireless communication standard. Cate...
Our Raspberry Pi friends will know the Building a Low Power Compact LCD Display project that shabaz published a while ago. He designed a £5 LCD module and the source code for Raspberry Pi.I've ported it to the TI-RTOS I2C driver.The display code shou...
In Storage Insights #5, we provided a guide to the Embedded Mulitmedia Card (eMMC), with technical details, operation information, and various commands. In Storage Insights #6 we will dive deeper into SATA (Serial ATA), discussing layering and compat...
I bought my first hardware debugger. The TI XDS110 Debug Probe.Up till now, I always used the on-board debug modules of development boards to program and debug devices. That's great for prototyping and evaluation. In industry settings, you use differ...
There are a few AR apps available for smartphones and tablets provide users with a detailed visualization of PCBs that includes deeper, highly detailed information on circuit design and an image of electronics placement. A couple that come to mind: T...
Physicists at the University of Basel have developed a new method that shows them the geometry of an electron. This shows an electron trapped in a quantum dot. (Image credit: University of Basel) We’ve all seen depictions of atoms in textbooks a...
Everyone is so focused on various emerging wireless technologies, and LiFi appears on the back burner of everyone's mind. Essential for offices, but I can see it being used in public spaces too. On June 19th, Signify, the largest company in...
The engineers have found a way to pass information from a series of tiny magnets arrayed on a thin film, to other magnets on a second film located below the first. (Image credit: University of Glasgow) Spintronics is described as the intrinsic ...
