14. March 2009 by admin.

These 2″ x 2″ circuit boards were originally design for the 28 pin PIC16F876A Basic Atom interpreter chips but also make great development boards for any 28 pin PIC development project. I have a bunch of these in my lab and just need to get rid of them.The board layout includes:

• TO-220 Regulator Circuit
• RS232 Level Shifter Circuit with DB9 Connector
• Resonator Connections
• Filter Caps
• I/O Pins Connections

The schematic can be found at this link:

http://basicmicro.com/downloads/docs/Atom28Chip.pdf 

You get all three boards for $7.00 plus shipping. See the Ebay listing at http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160318003544QQssPageNameZMERC_VIC_RCRX_Pr4_PcY_BIN_IT&refitem=160315330366&itemcount=4&refwidgetloc=closed_view_item&usedrule1=CrossSell_LogicX&refwidgettype=cross_promot_widget&_trksid=p284.m183&_trkparms=algo%3DCRX%26its%3DS%252BI%26itu%3DUCI%252BSI%26otn%3D4 

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13. March 2009 by admin.

Now to sway your vote, but here’s my favorite design in the PIC32 Design Challenge. I wish this could be productized now! 

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12. March 2009 by admin.

emWin is written in ANSI “C” and can handle any LCD, any resolution and any color depth. There is no need to change the source code of the application to use the software for different color depths. All you need to do is to modify the configuration file. 

Get the eval at http://www.segger.com/emwin_pc_evaluation.html 

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11. March 2009 by admin.

John Carbone, Vice President of Marketing at Express Logic, discusses the “business side” of selecting an embedded real-time operating system (RTOS). Key topics include RTOS, embedded Linux, licensing, and the costs affecting the “total cost of ownership” of an RTOS across the design and deployment lifecycle. Download the podcast at http://www.eg3.com/etc-awards/20081208-businessrtos.htm 

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10. March 2009 by admin.

From now until September 30, 2009, Microchip is offering a 20% discount on Microchip development tools for HI-TECH customers through http://www.microchipdirect.com, and a 50% exchange discount to owners of HI-TECH compilers for non-Microchip products.  Please contact HI-TECH for details.

HI-TECH’s customers should continue to contact HI-TECH through the normal sales and support channels that existed prior to this acquisition.  In order to provide the best possible products for Microchip microcontrollers and digital signal controllers, the HI-TECH team will now focus its energies exclusively on Microchip-related products.  Existing support agreements for other products will be honored for the duration of those agreements.  For more information, please visit HI-TECH’s Web site at http://www.htsoft.com or contact HI-TECH at support@htsoft.com.

In addition to purchasing through the HI-TECH Web site, all HI-TECH compilers for Microchip’s PIC MCUs and dsPIC DSCs are also available from http://www.microchipdirect.com.  Additionally, Microchip customers can now contact Microchip Technical Support at http://support.microchip.com for any of their HI-TECH compiler support needs.

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9. March 2009 by admin.

U-XPV86-MPLAB-X-kernel-PIC32-Dev - Unison RTOS Development LIcense for PIC32

Ultra Tiny Linux Compatible Unison RTOS version 4.0 Development Software and License for MPLAB 8.0 PIC32 including: documentation, binary libraries, source code, demonstration programs, file system, TCP and serial I/O servers. It offers a complete off the shelf development solution for any application on PIC32 processors. Complete I/O solutions are included with examples.

Regularly: 

$19,995.00

On Sale: 

$0.01

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7. March 2009 by admin.

BoostC compiler users have implemented code for USB protocol stack on PIC18 targets. Unlike some other USB protocol stack code available, this source code has no licensing limitations so that users can freely share code derivatives and improvements. Sample code is available including examples of a mouse and a USB serial port. The majority of the code has been developed by BoostC user Ian Harris and the source code can be downloaded from embeddedadventures.blogspot.com

PicPack 2.0 released

Now available… Including better USB documentation and a cracking USB serial (CDC) demo.

You can download it here. You can also also get PicPack from GitHub - updated regularly.

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6. March 2009 by admin.

No “deal” but I like it. 

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6. March 2009 by admin.

MPC supports the Microchip PIC 12/14/16/17 families, including 8K and flash parts.The MPC Code Development System includes:
·         an optimizing C Cross-compiler
·         the BCLink linker
·         an Integrated Development Environment and editor
·         a built-in macro cross-assembler.

MPC includes enhanced memory management such as LOCAL and SPECIAL memory directives. The LOCAL address space directive allows the user to maximize the use of RAM, direct the placement of local variables, re-use RAM locations and pass multiple arguments to functions. The SPECIAL memory directive adds support for variables in all types of memory, external or internal.

Download the demo version at http://www.bytecraft.com/depot/depot.php

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5. March 2009 by admin.

Was $129.85, now $89.95 at http://www.modtronix.com/index.php?cPath=157_158

The Explorer 16 (Microchip part number DM240001) is a low cost, efficient development board to evaluate the features and performance of Microchip’s new PIC24 Microcontroller, the dsPIC33 Digital Signal Controller (DSC) families, and the new 32-bit PIC32MX devices. Coupled with the MPLAB ICD 2 In Circuit Debugger or MPLAB REAL ICE, real-time emulation and debug facilities speed evaluation and prototyping of application circuitry. The Explorer 16 100-pin features two interchangeable Plug-In Modules (PIMs), one each for the PIC24FJ128GA010 and the dsPIC33FJ256GP710 DSC. The Explorer 16 44-pin features a Plug-In Module (PIM) for the PIC24FJ64GA004.

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