µ[micro]electronics info - PIC24F

Bus Pirate 2 - the USB version

admin — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:57:56 +0000

The Bus Pirate is a universal bus interface that talks to most chips from a PC serial terminal, eliminating a ton of early prototyping effort when working with new or unknown chips. Now with USB capabilities in the version 2.

Two new models of XGameStation

admin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:48:04 +0000

Nurve Networks LLC, the makers of the Hydra kit and the XGS, released the XGS AVR 8-Bit and XGS PIC 16-Bit development kits, a next generation development kits for the Atmel Mega AVR 8-Bit and Microchip PIC24 16-Bit processors.

Web server on a business card

admin — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:56:43 +0000

This mini web server is slightly smaller than a business card. There are a lot of tiny one-board servers out there, but this is probably the smallest you can etch and solder at home. Unlike many embedded web servers, files are stored on a PC-readable SD card, not in a difficult-to-write EEPROM.

Using External Data Memory with PIC24F/24H/dsPIC33F

admin — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:25:44 +0000

AN1210: the methodology to use the Parallel Master Port (PMP) module to interface with external data memory; either external Flash or external RAM.