Embedded Systems Weekly – Issue 62
Issue 62 – 22 July 2016
Hardware
UK technology firm ARM Holdings is to be bought by Japan’s Softbank for £24bn ($32bn) it confirmed on Monday.Share on Twitter ∙ Share on Facebook
Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss mixed-signal/low-power IC design with Phil Matthews, director of engineering at Silicon Laboratories; Yanning Lu, director of analog IC design at Ambiq Micro; Krishna Balachandran, director of low power solutions marketing at Cadence Design Systems; Geoffrey Ying, director of product marketing, AMS Group, Synopsys; and Mick Tegethoff, director of AMS marketing, Mentor Graphics.Share on Twitter ∙ Share on Facebook
The ESP8266 has taken the maker community by storm and the hype is well deserved. Before the ESP we had the HopeRF ISM radio RFM12 and its successor RFM69. The two can play nicely together as a low cost ISM/wifi bridge.Share on Twitter ∙ Share on Facebook
Two or more H-bridges can be operated in parallel to increase the current handling capacity of the circuit. In this application note, paralleling of H-bridges has been exemplified using a dual H-bridge model MC33932/MC34932.Share on Twitter ∙ Share on Facebook
Software
The Linux Foundation’s Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) project, which is developing a “Linux-based, open platform for the connected car,” announced the release of the second version of its Unified Code Base (UCB) distribution for in-vehicle infotainment (IVI). The latest version adds features like audio routing, rear seat display support, the beginnings of an app platform, and new development boards including the DragonBoard, Wandboard, and Raspberry Pi.Share on Twitter ∙ Share on Facebook
After using the AVR-ISP mkII for years (actually the cheap eBay knock-offs) to program ATMEL AVR microcontrollers, Scott W Harden gave the Bus Pirate a shot.Share on Twitter ∙ Share on Facebook
In this article, Rud Merriam works through some of the facilities for and pitfalls in writing threaded code in C++.Share on Twitter ∙ Share on Facebook
MicroPython is a lean and efficient implementation of the Python 3 programming language that includes a small subset of the Python standard library and is optimised to run on microcontrollers and in constrained environments. The MicroPython board is a small electronic circuit board that runs MicroPython on the bare metal, and gives you a low-level Python operating system that can be used to control all kinds of electronic projects.Share on Twitter ∙ Share on Facebook
Misc
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In this special episode of ‘The Ben Heck Show’ Terry and Dan Diebold have brought the Nintendo PlayStation Prototype. This rare console is thought to be the only one left in existence so they have handled it with extreme care.Share on Twitter ∙ Share on Facebook
Photo by Peter Miller
