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ideas for a BASIC compiler
I've started a BASIC compiler, first for PICs, but later I plan to use this for ARM platforms, too. This is an example source code: this is the generated assembler code: and this is the compiler: A...
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Linker/loader directives
I am seeking some (hopefully) general information about linker or loader directives that can be used to cause some arrays used in a C program to be stored at a particular (NVRAM) location. Could you...
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Material Choice for Portable Sound Player
Thanks for the comments to my post below. It seems like I wasn't clear about the needs for the project when I ask for suggestions on component choice. Instead of continuing the thread below, let me...
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Low Cost arm chips to offload TCP/IP stacks
Hi All, I am considering an application with Spartan-3 FPGAs. I need to run TCP/IP and a few other networking applications along with other user logic. The trade-off that I am considering is -...
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Programmer / Evaluation Board / Development Board
Are all of these the same thing? Once I take a fancy to a particular microcontroller, the first thing I'll want is a piece of hardware I can use for programming the chip. Now given that I'm just one...
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Any recommendations for audio player microcontrollers?
I'm trying to build a small device that instantly plays one of many short audio clips stored in memory on user's command. Does anybody know any easy to program microcontroller that integrates all the...
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More cheap/free stuff
In addition to the stuff in the previous post (Cheap/free stuff), I am also offering a Motorola MC68HC11EVS Evaluation System and a power supply to go with it. Jon Gabel
 
Cheap/free stuff
I've been cleaning out my garage and I am offering the following somewhat outdated items. Price is best offer. Terms: cash and carry. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area: Motorola 68HC05EVM Rev. C...
 
Stack Overflow Detection
Hello all, I'm thinking about implementing the above in a system I'm working on, does anyone have a good strategy for doing this? One possibility is having an area of RAM (beyond the stack "area")...
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Driving tri-state LED matrix
The objective is as follows: uC pin set as output high: The Green LED lights up uC pin set as output low: The Red LED lights up uC pin set as input: Both LED's are off There will never be a time when...
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Newbie question: the essence of embedded world!!!
Hi everybody , iam glad to join this cool site this is my first post here iam totally newbie in the embedded system area , i have a compute engineering degree and iam deeply interested in advanced...
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Data to fill into unused program space on ARM7.
Greetings. I'm trying to find some genious data to fill into the unused FLASH spac in my project, so that a stray program counter would get caught and m system would reset. I'm thinking one of...
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Recommend open source graphics library
Im looking for an open source graphics library for small color LCD. Must have bitmap and font display, basic shapes. Nice to have widgets like sliders, buttons, etc. Google gets me to lots of OpenGL...
 
FTDI2232D & SPI
I've been trying to get this working so far without success. I'm just wondering if anyone else has. Our particular requirement is for the 2232 to act as a master to a SiLab MCU acting as a slave. All...
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What is PWM input with very high resolution?
If someone says they are trying to read PWM input with very hig resolution(2 ^ 30), I think they meant 2 ^ -30. What does very hig resolution mean here? They are trying to read low frequency hig...
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