Saturday, November 10, 2012

Compile Octave using 16/32 bits colour - Ubuntu

  Hello there,   This post is a little different of I'm using to write, but yet very useful for us engineers! It's about how to compile octave to be able to load 16 or 32 bits colour images....
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Saturday, September 8, 2012

STM32F0 discovery + GCC + Eclipse + OpenOCD + Ubuntu - Part II

  Hello!   As promissed in last post, I'll show you how to setup eclipse to work with the our STM32F0 discovery board + open source toolchain. 1) Open eclipse. First of all we need to...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Digikey - 180 days of education

  Hello there!   This post I'd like to comment a little bit about the digikey continuing education program. It's 180 days of education in electronics, firmware, concepts, good practices in...
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Saturday, August 18, 2012

STM32F0 discovery + GCC + Eclipse + OpenOCD + Ubuntu - Part I

Hello there! In this post I'll show how to set up your IDE to debug the STM32F0 discovery board using open source tools. The STM32F0 is a kit (very cheap) from ST micro to introduces the ARM Cortex...
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Saturday, July 21, 2012

Philip Koopman - Better Embedded System Software Review

  Hello there!   This post is a review of Philip's book - Better Embedded System Software. I was looking for a book where I could learn a little more about the processes of...
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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Michael Barr - Embedded C Coding Standard - Review

  Hello there!   This post is a review of Michael Barr's Embedded C Coding Standard book.   First of all, why a c coding standard? I have been working in my life in small and medium...
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Thursday, May 10, 2012

FPGA hello world - Led blink - Part III

  Hello everybody!  As promissed a century ago, in this post I'll show how to assign pins to our FPGA hello world, aka Led blink, how to generate our bitstream and how to program our FPGA....
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FPGA hello world - Led blink - Part II

  Hello!   In this post I'll show you how to simulate our hello world design.   In ISE, in Design tab, select View Simulation as in the image below   Now we "compile" our design...
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Sunday, January 15, 2012

FPGA hello world - Led blink

  Hello guys!   Let's do our first design using the demo board.   I'll explain step-by-step how to create a new project, develop our code and synthesize it using ISE 13.3 installed in...
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