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Yellow Book: "System Recovery for Dummies"
Hi, I'm designing a system using lots of COTS hardware. IME, few of these things are ever designed *thinking* about their roles in a *system*. Instead, someone throws together a set of features, wraps some sort of syntax around them (in/out) and throws it out into the market. :< As such, it's often difficu... 2 Jun 2010 00:04

New Microchip PIC18F K90 have LCD drive and LOW power
http://www.microcontroller.com/news/Microchip_PIC18F_K90.asp http://www.microcontroller.com/Microchip.htm Includes a block diagram and a selection guide. LCD direct drive of up to 192 pixels. Run current is stated as slope of 75uA/MHz. @ 1.8V. Bill Giovino Executive Editor http://Microcontroller.com Fol... 1 Jun 2010 20:49

New Microchip PIC18F K22 Family has only 20nA Sleep Current
http://www.microcontroller.com/news/Microchip_PIC18F_K22.asp http://www.microcontroller.com/Microchip.htm Includes a block diagram and a selection guide. Also a nice diagram of the CTMU. Run current is stated as sloping at an outrageous 75uA/MHz. @ 1.8V. Bill Giovino Executive Editor http://Microcontroller.... 1 Jun 2010 18:36

Miniature soldering irons
I've been a long time fan of the Antex 'C' iron since I find it is just the right size for circuit board work but since the switch to lead free I've been finding it simply hasn't been getting hot enough. I figure now is the time I really need to upgrade to a proper soldering station. However I'm having difficulty ... 3 Jun 2010 08:54

Atmel ATmega128 - would you use it in a new design?
On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:56:25 +0100, Peter <nospam(a)nospam9876.com> wrote: One option is to stick with the H8 family, which still exists, with the downside of Hitachi being the #1 most arrogant and useless-support company; a distinction they have managed to maintain for the 20 years I have been dealing with th... 2 Jun 2010 10:54

How to save config. spec. to file from command prompt?
I added view shortcut in Rational Clearcase Explorer. Then, I mounted a VOB. I invoked command prompt. The prompt I got is: cleartool > When I invoke "Print Working Directory"(pwd), I get the following response: A:\my_vob I try to save config. spec. to file from command prompt as follows: catcs > c:\config_s... 1 Jun 2010 13:03

Graphical User Interface project on Spartan-3 FPGA
I am a student of Electronics and I am going to do semester work on the topic "Implementation of Graphical User Interfaces on an Embedded Platform". We are allowed to choose a project of our own so this is why I am currently looking for suitable project ideas. The work shall be implemented on a Xilinx Spartan-3... 2 Jun 2010 05:27

PIC18 compiler
Hi Guru's, I have been handed a PIC18 project including a CCS compiler. I have been struggling for days now to try to work around something that seems to be a compiler bug but CCS have not been very helpful to solve this project. To be honest, this whole CCS thing seems to be targeted at embedded-challenged peop... 4 Jun 2010 02:41

AVR32 destiny or destination (Ulf Samuelsson RSVP)
Hi, Can someone (perhaps resident Atmel guru Ulf Samuelsson RSVP) arguably explain how AVR32 is posioned against competition in terms of market share and future "road map". I guess I'm asking for a kind of marketing pitch to convince me that investing money in development tools and time in learning them is a... 24 Jun 2010 19:41

IP of device (Re: Reverse or inverse ARP from windows/linux - no way (!?!?))
>On May 28, 11:05=A0pm, clemens fischer <ino- n...(a)spotteswoode.dnsalias.org> wrote: (sorry for being so late) On Thu-2010/03/25-22:54 Didi wrote: I tried today to figure out a simple way to give users of our new netmca (http://tgi-sci.com/tgi/nmcatb.htm) to locate its IP address once it... 31 May 2010 06:29