FPGA Soft Core CPUs1759 (11/6/2009 4:00:24 AM) comp.arch.embedded Parts obsolescence is biting again, and at least one of my EEs is insisting that we spin replacement boards with soft-core processors in FPGAs. There are several things I don't like about that. First, how rob... Jack
Looking for Documentation on Old Hardware944 (11/23/2007 5:46:17 AM) comp.arch.embedded I'm looking for whatever documentation I can get my hands on, electronically or paper, on a few very old technologies. Old enough that I can't seem to find much on the web. Specifically, I could use schematic... Jack
Has this wheel already been invented?5847 (11/17/2007 4:31:06 AM) comp.arch.embedded There are all sorts of preemptive kernels, RTOS's, frameworks, out there, open source and commercial. There are priority-driven preemptive systems, time-sliced preemptive systems, and others. But preemptive s... Jack
New Motion Control DSPs From TI728 (6/5/2007 3:34:47 AM) comp.dsp We heard about these from TI a few months ago, under NDA, and now they're officially announced, on TI's web site today. http://focus.ti.com/paramsearch/docs/parametricsearch.tsp?family=dsp§ionId=2&tabId=21... Jack
Looking for recommendations: schematic reading turotial2038 (3/19/2007 2:21:42 AM) comp.arch.embedded Can anyone recommend any web site or book with a good basic tutorial on reading schematics, US symbols preferred to European? I have a colleague who is an experienced embedded programmer, but she never had any... Jack
A question about PCI439 (9/21/2006 2:51:23 AM) comp.arch.embedded The last time I designed a board to fit into a PC was in the early 1980s, and it used the original 8-bit ISA bus. Now we're looking at designing a board for the conventional PCI bus. If we go ahead and do the... Jack
Philips spinning off semiconductor division047 (6/24/2006 4:49:39 AM) comp.arch.embedded I guess they figured if it was good enough for Motorola, it's good enough for them. http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/06/23/philips_chip_biz_spinoff_timetable/ -- Jack Klein Home: http://JK-Technology.Com FA... Jack
Alas, poor 486, we knew you well...2042 (6/8/2006 4:38:39 AM) comp.arch.embedded I hope that everyone who needs to know already knows that Intel has discontinued just about all of their embedded processors. In case you don't, you can read it at http://developer.intel.com/design/pcn/Process... Jack
AVR Compiler Recommendations6041 (5/9/2006 5:48:34 AM) comp.arch.embedded We've picked an AVR for a small task in a project, haven't used one before. I'm looking for any and all recommendations for and/or against the C compilers available from various sources. We'll be using Atmel'... Jack
Source Code Readability References521 (6/21/2005 3:15:41 AM) comp.software-eng Hi, I'm looking for any references to studies with data on the readability of various naming methods for source code, such as CamelMode, under_score, etc. TIA, -- Jack Klein Home: http://JK-Technology.Com F... Jack
(u8 a) = (u16) b2828 (8/25/2009 11:45:21 AM) comp.lang.c I have the following: u8 a; u16 b; I would like to set 'a' equal to the least significant eight bits of 'b', without the compiler warning generated by a=b; I was thinking perhaps: a = ((u8)&b)[0]; (or, what... Paul
C coding guidelines14054 (8/26/2009 6:34:32 AM) comp.lang.c I have written C coding guidelines for my company. All of those guidelines I have learned from this newsgroup. So I thought it will a be good idea if you people can have a look and advise on improvement or ... sunrise2(598)
Need a C++ book for complete idiot!8627 (9/8/2009 3:51:45 AM) comp.lang.c++ I'm trying to teach myself some C++ I have NO programming experience...... none.... zip...... null Can you guys recommend a book for someone on my level I can buy from Amazon? ... me4(18699)
uClinux and GPIOs230 (9/30/2009 10:25:57 PM) comp.dsp Hi, I am relatively new to uClinux, and i need help in Application development for uClinux which would involve use of GPIOs , SPORTs etc. My question: 1 - How to access GPIOs and SPORTs from uClinux , is ther... enigma.ali(2)
Defining a global MACRO545 (10/8/2009 2:06:47 AM) comp.lang.c hi, I was working on my first big project in C. Now my project can be used for 2 different purposes so some portions of my project needed precondition compiling depending on my purpose. so I use #ifdef MACRO... c.lang.myself(94)
Question about C roles350 (10/21/2009 9:53:05 AM) comp.lang.c Hi all, I've been noticing job adverts for high end C developers for 2 companies 1. Waterfront Internation Limited 2. Quantres In both cases I can't seem to find any background on these companies, googling t... darid.tromer(3)
Question about C++ roles346 (10/21/2009 9:56:19 AM) comp.lang.c++ Hi all, I've been noticing job adverts for high end C++ developers for 2 companies 1. Waterfront Internation Limited 2. Quantres In both cases I can't seem to find any background on these companies, googling... darid.tromer(3)
Lots of SPAM mails/topics on comp.dsp264 (10/27/2009 3:09:44 PM) comp.dsp Hello I hope you are all doing fine. I want to draw your attention towards the increasing SPAM email/topics we are getting on comp.dsp Is there any to make sure it is reduced? Sometimes the thread we follow g... communications_engineer(93)
Password Protecting SD-Card Data168 (11/6/2009 2:20:06 AM) comp.arch.embedded Anyone know how data on an "Secure" Digital Card can be secured? I'm designing an embedded arm-based board that uses a standard SD/SDHC Card for storage, and I'd like to secure certain partitions by password p... benn686(77)