By Erich Styger – Yes, the Eclipse IDE is a very visual and GUI-oriented framework. But this does not mean that everything is mouse oriented. While hammering in code, my hands are on the keyboard. Since I do as much as possible with the keyboard, I use any and all keyboard shortcuts available. The good news is [...]
April 17, 2012 – 11:05 am
By Jim Trudeau – Without the Web, the internet would be just a network. Without the internet, there would be no Web. In 1991 Tim Berners-Lee posted a summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup, marking the Web’s debut. He suggested the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, and he established the first link between [...]
By Derrick Klotz – Is it better to use assembly or the C programming language? This question has been debated for so long that I‘m surprised that it still gets asked. Everyone has their opinion, so I’m going to tell you mine. The primary benefit of using C is its flexibility. The biggest problem with [...]
November 15, 2011 – 8:23 am
By Tom Thompson — Embedded programming is a high-wire balancing act. Often you are trying to accomplish as much you can, while scrambling to conserve every possible processor cycle and byte of storage. That is because an embedded system has little flash memory, even less RAM, and is often powered by a battery. Occasionally, you [...]
November 1, 2011 – 12:58 pm
By Jim Trudeau – Earlier this year at the Freescale Technology Forum we ran a very successful Make It Challenge on site in San Antonio, Texas. Our customers showed remarkable ingenuity using a variety of Freescale platforms and partner enablement technologies to produce marvelous, sometimes whimsical, and always innovative creations. UPDATE: Winners announced (Nov. 16) [...]
October 10, 2011 – 12:26 pm
By Tom Thompson – Recently I described how Freescale’s CodeWarrior software tools, in combination with P&E Microcomputer Systems’ Multilink Universal run control device, function as a Swiss army knife for the embedded systems developer. What makes this possible is that CodeWarrior for MCUs v10.1 allows you to write software for a large number of MCUs, [...]
September 21, 2011 – 1:40 pm
By Michael Stanley — In “Sensor fusion with the MMA8451 accelerometer and MAG3110 magnetometer”we explored the RD4247MAG3110 Sensor Toolbox hardware kit. That kit, pictured below is typical of the Freescale Sensor Toolbox in that it is composed of a 3 board stackup (communications board, adapter board and sensor-specific board).
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