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What Can You Do With an NE-2 (Glow Lamp)?

11/23/2009 | post In  Jon Titus Blog

A light dimmer I replaced includes an orange on/off indicator that makes the dimmer easy to find in the dark. Most likely, the manufacturer used a ...



Please Don't Ask Me to Register!

11/19/2009 | post In  Jon Titus Blog

An announcement about a new development kit, this one for programmable logic devices (PLDs), arrived a few days ago. PLDs seem to have faded into ...



SchmartBoards Get Even Smarter

11/09/2009 | post In  Jon Titus Blog

SchmartBoard manufactures a wide variety of prototyping boards engineers use when they must hardwire a circuit. The latest through-hole board, mode...



A Cornucopia of Touch Sensors and Software

11/03/2009 | post In  Jon Titus Blog

During the last two months, announcements of new touch sensors and touch-sensor capabilities have arrived from Silicon Labs, Freescale, and Atmel. ...



Gecko's ARM MCU Gives Battery Drain a Knock-Out Punch

10/29/2009 | post In  Jon Titus Blog

You never know where new chips based on an ARM CPU will pop up. Energy Micro AS of Oslo, Norway has used an ARM Cortex-M3 CPU in its Gecko processo...



Raise Your Hand for More ARMs

10/26/2009 | post In  Jon Titus Blog

When Texas Instruments acquires Luminary Micro--a vendor of ARM-based microcontrollers--I worried that TI might simply drop Luminary Micro's Stella...



Three Helpful Oscilloscope References

10/23/2009 | post In  Jon Titus Blog

Tektronix has published a 60-page primer, "XYXs of Oscilloscopes," that explains how a scope acquires and displays information. The bookl...



An mbed Module Simplifies ARM MCU Development Work

10/20/2009 | post In  Jon Titus Blog

A Gadget Freak project on the Design News magazine Web site used an mbed (yes, it's all lower-case letters) microcontroller module to control one o...



Will the x86 Architecture Ever Die?

10/14/2009 | post In  Jon Titus Blog

Intel's 8086 16-bit microprocessor and its 8-bit sibling, the 8088, gave the personal computer market a tremendous boost when IBM adopted the 8088 ...



Minimizing Video Processing Design Time with FPGA Development Kits and Reference Designs

10/07/2009 | post In  DEV-monkey blog

Introduction Video standards and methods of encoding/decoding have made tremendous progress over the last decade with the availability of large sy...



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PICkit 3 Debug Express
Date: Oct 5, 2009
Microchip’s PICkit™ 3 Debug Express uses in-circuit debugging logic incorporated into each chip with Flash memory to provide a low-cost hardware debugger and... More...

MPLAB ICD 3 In-Circuit Debugger
Date: Oct 5, 2009
The MPLAB ICD 3 is the most cost-effective high-speed emulator for PIC MCUs and dsPIC DSCs. It debugs and programs with the powerful, yet easy-to-use... More...

Free C Compilers from Microchip
Date: Oct 5, 2009
Microchip has a complete selection of C compilers for programming on any PIC microcontroller or dsPIC digital signal processor. The MPLAB C and HI-TECH C... More...



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