Posted on 1st Aug 2020
The custom design of an LPC54016 we just completed, has been built, debugged, and delivered to the customer. A new trend is for serial peripherals to be combined and then configured in software. This is true of the LPC54016 which has Flexcomms that can be used as UARTs, I2Cs, SPIs and some for I2S.
Posted on 17th Jul 2020
Scrolling history for commands and searches have been added to the MakeItC and BASICtools.
Posted on 8th Jul 2020
Tod has been busy, he wanted to hear our boards driven from BASIC, so starting with an Epson S1V30120 speech synthesis IC on a TextToSpeech Click module, he translated the library from C to BASIC (no small task) and then brought that code up on our SuperPRO, the Itaca uChip and other SAMD21 boards.
Posted on 23rd Jun 2020
One of our OEM customers has been using our SuperPRO. For a new project they needed some more speed, so they gave the LPC54005 a try. Turns out the speed was great, but they needed more than the 50 control points. They needed 80 control points and 4 RS-232 serial ports.
Posted on 21st Jun 2020
Sometimes a couple more IOs are needed in a design. Often these are configuration or IOs that do not change very often. These can be handled by some simple TTL logic devices, many of which were designed in the 1970s. The fact that they are still in use indicates how valuable they still are in hardware design.
Posted on 12th Jun 2020
SAMD21's keep getting smaller. Now out the Seeede Studio XIAO, it may be slightly smaller than the Itaca uChip, both small and cute. If you're tired of needing to install nearly a Gigabyte of stuff to program these. Maybe it's time to try BASIC, it's a free download.