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The "Lab Rat" Reviews Altium NanoBoard 3000 FPGA Tools

03/09/2010 | post In  Jon Titus Blog

The March 2010 issue of Design News magazine includes a hands-on review of the Altium NanoBoard 3000 development hardware and software. Look for th...


A New Approach to MEMS Construction

03/08/2010 | post In  Jon Titus Blog

Engineers understand the concepts involved in building a micro electromechanical system (MEMS) on a silicon wafer. Successive layers of silicon un...


A Wireless MCU for Smart Homes and Meters

03/01/2010 | post In  Jon Titus Blog

Silicon Laboratories has unveiled a wireless MCU aimed at low-power circuits in smart-home products and smart meters. This family of RF-MCU chips w...


Free ARM Cortex-M0 Development Software

02/23/2010 | post In  Jon Titus Blog

If you want to investigate the ARM Cortex-M0 processor, NXP Semiconductor has a free integrated development environment (IDE) named the "LPCXp...


Let's Try Current-Feedback Op Amps

02/18/2010 | post In  Jon Titus Blog

Electrical engineers probably remember they can switch currents faster than voltages, which is why some designers prefer current-output digital-to-...


One Extra Component and Two Dumb Mistakes

02/08/2010 | post In  Jon Titus Blog

I breadboarded a microphone pre-amplifier circuit and it worked well until I added a circuit that used the audio output to drive an LED bar-graph d...


A Cool Tool for Remote Serial-Port Control

02/02/2010 | post In  Jon Titus Blog

Ed Sutter, the fellow who created MicroMonitor (uMon), an open-source embedded-system boot platform, sent me a note about his newest software, uCon...


Why is Programming So Primitive?

01/25/2010 | post In  Jon Titus Blog

I learned to program when I took a course on FORTRAN II in the mid '60's. My college friends and I punched cards, put them in small mailboxes in th...


Don't Skimp on Product Details

01/20/2010 | post In  Jon Titus Blog

An old economist gave some sage advice to a young grad student. "Son," he said, "give people numbers and dates, but never both at th...


Cameras as Debug Tools, and the Gerber Ruler

01/11/2010 | post In  Jon Titus Blog

I started to work with some new FPGA-design software that seemed to take a long time to "build" a simple LED-flasher demonstration projec...


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