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2. uC/OS-III The Real-Time Kernel
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I've long wanted to know more about how a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) performs its magic and how to use one of these little rascals, but there's surprisingly little written about this subject. Fortunately, ...

3. New eSi-RISC Scalable Soft Processor Cores for ASICs and FPGAs
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... a 40% code density saving over the soft cores typically available from FPGA vendors, thereby saving valuable on-chip memory resources). I just heard from the folks at EnSilica, an independent provider ...

4. Microchip's 44 Pin Demo board - what to do with it once you've flashed the LED's
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In November 2008, EPE (Everyday Practical Electronics) magazine had an amazing offer. For around £10, you could purchase a Microchip PICKit 2 programmer, software, cable AND they included a 44-Pin DemoBoard. ...

5. Brian Bailey’s must see list for DAC 2010
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... has system modeling tools, and of course there is The Mathworks (534), one of the biggest algorithm and system-level modeling companies out there.   Other ESL Duolog with Socrates for chip integration ...

6. 12V Sealed Lead/Acid Charger – Cyclic Battery Use
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... circuit diagram of Fig.1 shows a method of charging sealed lead/acid batteries using a basic car battery charger with the aid of an L200 voltage/current regulator chip. The off-load output voltage from ...

7. Processor Design: System-On-Chip Computing for ASICs and FPGAs
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Processor Design: System-On-Chip Computing for ASICs and FPGAs ed. Jari Nurmi ISBN-13: 978-1402055294 Springer, 2007 Back in the 1980s, during the rise of the RISC era, it seemed that new processor architectures ...

8. Karnaugh Maps (Part 2)
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In this, the second installment of a two-part mini-series, we consider grouping minterms in more detail, along with the concepts of incompletely specified functions and populating Karnaugh maps using 0s ...

9. Gray Codes (Part 2)
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The term Gray code is typically used to refer to a binary sequence in which only a single bit changes value when transitioning between adjacent states. In this, the second installment of our mini-series, ...

10. Positive Versus Negative Logic
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The terms positive logic and negative logic refer to two conventions that dictate the relationship between logical values and the physical voltages used to represent them. Unfortunately, although the core ...

11. Mega-Smackdown at ESC Silicon Valley in April 2010
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... you buy a used microprocessor from this man?). Jim is an acknowledged authority on microprocessor chips, embedded systems, semiconductors, and intellectual property licensing (to name but a few). He is ...

12. Synopsys and CoWare tie the knot. Virtual Prototyping on fire!!
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... developers as chips have gotten more complex and embedded software has become more pervasive," said Joachim Kunkel, senior vice president and general manager of the Solutions Group at Synopsys. "With the ...

13. Analysis: M14K and M14Kc MCU cores
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... the ARM926EJ-S and the Cortex-M3 from a number of vendors.  Depending on whose numbers you believe, these chips have helped ARM capture as much as 25% of the MCU market.  In contrast, M14K and M14Kc parts ...

14. Tabula launches ABAX FPGAs based on 3D Spacetime architecture
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... my blog on that announcement I remarked: "...from what I can see, all I'm hearing are announcements of the delights that are to come ... the chips 'will offer this' and they 'will do that' ... one day ...

15. Switched-Capacitor Sinewave Generator – Sine of the times
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... or 0.1Hz to 50kHz using the LMF100 chip. This circuit converts a square wave into a sinewave, which is at 1/100th of the original frequency. The output frequency ranges from 0.1Hz to 30kHz using the ...

16. ASCII, EBCDIC, ISO, and Other Computer Codes (Part 4)
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Digital computers represent and manipulate all forms of data as a collection of numerical values. In the case of text, alphanumerical and punctuation characters are each assigned a numerical equivalent, ...

17. YES! Mentor introduces Rad-Tolerant FPGA Synthesis!
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... the materials used to create the packages for electronic components such as silicon chips can spontaneously emit radioactive particles. This was not a significant problem until recently, because the structures ...

18. LFSRs (Part 2)
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An LFSR is a shift register whose output is cunningly manipulated and fed back into its input in such a way as to cause the function to endlessly cycle through a sequence of patterns. In this, the second ...

19. An Introduction to Software-Defined Radio (SDR)
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... Digital Signal Processing (DSP) chips to traditional analog radio architectures to provide signal-processing functions with limited or no capability to upgrade. SDR is an alternative radio communication ...

20. Communications Flexibility is the Key to an interoperable “Smart” Grid
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... “Last Mile” radio of his choice to implement the majority of a “Last Mile” communication stack. Counter arguments to the multi-chip and IP centric solutions: System vendors can argue that SoCs with MCU/MPU ...