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VHDL tutorial - part 2 - Testbench

In an earlier article I walked through the VHDL coding of a simple design. In this article I will continue the process and create a test bench module to test the earlier design. The Xilinx ISE environ...

posted by Gene Breniman on Oct 30 2007 under VHDL programming | Tutorials 
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VHDL tutorial - A practical example - part 2 - VHDL coding

In part 1 of this series we focused on the hardware design, including some of the VHDL definitions of the I/O characteristics of the CPLD part.  In part 2, we will describe the VHDL logic of...

posted by Gene Breniman on May 27 2011 under Software Development | VHDL programming | Hardware Development | Tutorials 
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VHDL tutorial - Creating a hierarchical design

In earlier blog entries I introduced some of the basic VHDL concepts. First, developing a function ('VHDL tutorial') and later verifying and refining it ('VHDL tutorial - part 2 - Testbench' and 'VHDL...

posted by Gene Breniman on May 22 2008 under VHDL programming | Tutorials 
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Thermistor signal conditioning: Dos and Don'ts, Tips and Tricks

In an earlier blog entry,  I mentioned this circuit for thermistor signal conditioning: It is worth a little more explanation on thermistor signal conditioning; it's something that's often don...

posted by Jason Sachs on Jun 15 2011 under Tutorials | circuit design | thermistor 
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VHDL tutorial - A practical example - part 3 - VHDL testbench

In part 1 (http://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/85.php) of this series we focused on the hardware design, including some of the VHDL definitions of the I/O characteristics of the CPLD part. ...

posted by Gene Breniman on Jun 25 2011 under VHDL programming | Hardware Development | Tutorials 
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C++ on microcontrollers 2 - LPCXpresso, LPC-link, Code Sourcery, lpc21isp, linkerscript, LPC1114 startup

 previous parts: 1 This blog series is about the use of C++ for modern microcontrollers. My plan is to show the gradual development of a basic I/O library. I will introduce the object-or...

posted by Wouter van Ooijen on Oct 24 2011 under ARM | Education | Tutorials 
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VHDL tutorial - A practical example - part 1 - Hardware

In previous posts I described some simple VHDL examples.  This time let's try something a little more complex. This is part one of a multiple part article.  This is intended to be a detailed...

posted by Gene Breniman on May 18 2011 under VHDL programming | Hardware Development | Tutorials 
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Which MOSFET topology?

A recent electronics.StackExchange question brings up a good topic for discussion. Let's say you have a power supply and a 2-wire load you want to be able to switch on and off from the power supply us...

posted by Jason Sachs on Sep 1 2011 under Tutorials | circuit design | power electronics 
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How to Build a Fixed-Point PI Controller That Just Works: Part I

This two-part article explains five tips to make a fixed-point PI controller work well. I am not going to talk about loop tuning -- there are hundreds of articles and books about that; any control-sys...

posted by Jason Sachs on Feb 26 2012 under Tutorials | control systems 
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How to Build a Fixed-Point PI Controller That Just Works: Part II

In Part I we talked about some of the issues around discrete-time proportional-integral (PI) controllers: various forms and whether to use the canonical form for z-transforms (don't do it!) order ...

posted by Jason Sachs on Mar 24 2012 under Tutorials | control systems 
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Byte and Switch (Part 1)

Imagine for a minute you have an electromagnet, and a microcontroller, and you want to use the microcontroller to turn the electromagnet on and off. Sounds pretty typical, right?We ask this question o...

posted by Jason Sachs on Apr 26 2011 under Tutorials | interface circuitry | circuit design 
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C++ on microcontrollers 4 – input pins, and decoding a rotary switch

  previous parts: 1, 2, 3  This blog series is about the use of C++ for modern microcontrollers. My plan is to show the gradual development of a basic I/O library. I will introduce...

posted by Wouter van Ooijen on Nov 12 2011 under ARM | Software Development | Tutorials | I/O 
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Designing Embedded System with FPGA - 1

With the introduction of soft processors and related tools (like EDK from Xilinx), implementation of basic embedded system in FPGA is made easy. This requires very little or almost no knowledge of VHD...

posted by Pragnesh Patel on Oct 28 2007 under Software Development | VHDL programming | FPGA based Systems | Tutorials 
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C++ on microcontrollers 1 - introduction, and an output pin class

  This blog series is about the use of C++ for modern microcontrollers. My plan is to show the gradual development of a basic I/O library. I will introduce the object-oriented C++ featur...

posted by Wouter van Ooijen on Oct 9 2011 under ARM | Software Development | Tutorials | I/O 
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VHDL tutorial - combining clocked and sequential logic

In an earlier article on VHDL programming ("VHDL tutorial" and "VHDL tutorial - part 2 - Testbench", I described a design for providing a programmable clock divider for a ADC sequencer. In this exampl...

posted by Gene Breniman on Mar 3 2008 under VHDL programming | Tutorials 
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Byte and Switch (Part 2)

In part 1 we talked about the use of a MOSFET for a power switch. Here's a different circuit that also uses a MOSFET, this time as a switch for signals: We have a thermistor Rth that is located som...

posted by Jason Sachs on May 7 2011 under Tutorials | circuit design | low-voltage design | thermistor 
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Using XML to describe embedded devices (and speak to them)

This article discusses one of the typical development cycles in embedded device and communication design and presents a possible, light weight solution using the free DClib/netpp framework. ...

posted by Martin Strubel on Oct 12 2011 under Software Development | Hardware Development | Tutorials 
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Designing Embedded Systems with FPGA-2

In last part, we created hardware design of basic system. The next step is to generate (compile) hardware design. Compiled hardware design is known as bit-stream andstored in *.bit file. To compile ha...

posted by Pragnesh Patel on Nov 13 2007 under VHDL programming | FPGA based Systems | Tutorials 
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Embedded Software Creation II - European Normative & Legislation

In this post I will explain the European Normative. I will answer the main questions and I will be open to answer all the doubts any of you could have. Please leave a comment and I will answer if i co...

posted by Maykel Alonso on Dec 20 2011 under Software Development | Tutorials | product design 
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Deeply embedded design example - Logic replacement

I have always believed that some of the low-cost, low-pin count, low-resource microprocessors would make an excellent choice for the replacement of discrete logic components.  In these cases...

posted by Gene Breniman on Jul 9 2011 under PIC | Software Development | Hardware Development | Tutorials 
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