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May 16, 2006
On Death and Embedded Systems
The queer thing about death is that you die only once. And by then its too late. You of all people cannot participate in your own death. Why am I talking about death and whats it got to do with Embedded Systems?
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Posted by Dhananjay V. Gadre at 05:26 AM Permalink
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May 14, 2006
Write Only Memory
Although its way past all fools day, I recently discovered Bob Pease's article on the origins of the Write Only Memory.
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Posted by Dhananjay V. Gadre at 08:49 AM Permalink
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May 13, 2006
The Ubiquitous Remote Control
I recently came across an article in the March 2006 issue IEEE Spectrum, by Rober W. Lucky, titled Remote Control. A remote control is one piece of ubiquitious, mundane hardware that you take for granted. One is likely to own a multiple of these devices, for a vaerity of consumr entertainment electronics.
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Posted by Dhananjay V. Gadre at 02:50 PM Permalink
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May 05, 2006
Cortex ARM Controllers
ARM Microcontroller portfoloio from ARM, the leaders in 32-bit controllers for a variety of applications, has been diversified with a new range of optimized microcontrollers, called the Cortex Series.
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Posted by Dhananjay V. Gadre at 04:19 AM Permalink
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April 27, 2006
AVR32 - The New 32-bit Stud on the Block
Atmel recently announced a 32-bit controller architecture, the AVR32. With multiple execution units, the AVR32 32-bit RISC processor core is designed to do more processing per clock cycle.
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Posted by Dhananjay V. Gadre at 11:39 AM Permalink
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April 21, 2006
Windows Embedded Student ChallengE 2006
In a few hours, submissions for the final reports to one of the most keenly contested Embedded Design Contest would be due. As the name suggests, students from colleges and universities around the world compete to create a theme based Embedded System running Windows CE.
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Posted by Dhananjay V. Gadre at 12:40 PM Permalink
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April 20, 2006
PicoPower AVR -- MSP430 Gets Competition
The MSP430 Microcontroller family fromm TI has been one of the lowest power consuming Microcontrollers around. Infact, one of the favourite marketing gimmick is a small demonstration using a MSP430 application powered using a grape/apple battery!
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Posted by Dhananjay V. Gadre at 04:18 PM Permalink
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