How to choose a firmware partner: Ask if it's policy to enable the watchdog timer. The correct answer is "no". If they say "yes" then you...

How to choose a firmware partner: Ask if it's policy to enable the watchdog timer. The correct answer is "no". If they say "yes" then you know that their code is dodgy, and/or their hardware is vulnerable and if the WDT is not going off occassionally, it probably will after the next modification. Cheers Robin

hi all... I am Sandeep.M... I am trying to implement remote firmware upgrade feature to my rabbit 3000, RCM 3200 based system... I would like to...

hi all... I am Sandeep.M... I am trying to implement remote firmware upgrade feature to my rabbit 3000, RCM 3200 based system... I would like to accomplish this without the use of RabbitLink board. So if anyone has tried this out, please help me with necessary information regarding how to start with this project... Thanks...

If anyone has an endpoint 2 or 6 configured for autoin in slave mode could they please send me some code how exactly they configured...

If anyone has an endpoint 2 or 6 configured for autoin in slave mode could they please send me some code how exactly they configured the endpoint in firmware? Thanks

I've read "The Non-Quality Revolution" by Jack Ganssle @ Embedde.com (http://tinyurl.com/y9tspzl). What about the concept of achieving higher...

I've read "The Non-Quality Revolution" by Jack Ganssle @ Embedde.com (http://tinyurl.com/y9tspzl). What about the concept of achieving higher levels of firmware quality? How we can define it? Number of bugs per LOC? Perceived quality by the final user? Or.... ?

I recently was contacted by a headhunter about a job working on "embedded firmware". Since I've begun to notice this term can imply many...

I recently was contacted by a headhunter about a job working on "embedded firmware". Since I've begun to notice this term can imply many things, I tried to ask whether it was an area that really interested me, whether the work would involve developing device drivers. The headhunter was stupefied, asking whether that was some sort of application, but I was able to sync up with him again when...

Hi all I have no idea regarding low level hardware. I should firgure out something about ALTERA ACEX. Question is like following. 1.Are...

Hi all I have no idea regarding low level hardware. I should firgure out something about ALTERA ACEX. Question is like following. 1.Are the FPGA configuration data and the firmware different? 2.How can I extract FPGA configuration data from ALTERA ACEX to my PC? 3.How can I extract firmware in EEPROM to my PC? P.S What I want to do finally is extrating data from FPGA and EEPROM and ...

Hi All, I am writing a data logging firmware using dosfs. The size of data I am logging is more than 10Meg. I tested the firmware with 2G SD...

Hi All, I am writing a data logging firmware using dosfs. The size of data I am logging is more than 10Meg. I tested the firmware with 2G SD card and 4G SDHC card. Both of these cards are working properly. When I put these cards into my PC I can read the filenames and creation dates. However, when I tested the same firmware against a 8G SDHC card, after logging about 1Meg of data, the DFS_Write...

Has anyone seen any firmware source code out there that used NAND flash over a USB link to act as a Mass Storage device, and also implement some...

Has anyone seen any firmware source code out there that used NAND flash over a USB link to act as a Mass Storage device, and also implement some form of error correction or at least detection.... Richard.

No one has made a Buffallo monitor for the ARM . you cant start an ARM , its missing to much essential firmware . Vendors want you to...

No one has made a Buffallo monitor for the ARM . you cant start an ARM , its missing to much essential firmware . Vendors want you to NOT know their h/w so they steer you into a 50 MegaByte i.D.E. , to keep you distracted , and detour you away from learning the essence of the ARM mcu . You must use a helper host PC , which burrys too many bugs, because you dont have han...

It's difficult to find a read-to-use 4.3"-5" tablet/photoframe/panel PC/others at low-cost (50USD) for quantity (1k-5kpcs) that is hackable...

It's difficult to find a read-to-use 4.3"-5" tablet/photoframe/panel PC/others at low-cost (50USD) for quantity (1k-5kpcs) that is hackable with a custom firmware/software for my application that requires just the display and a RS485 two-wires ports. I tried to contact some Chinese photo frames manufacturers, but they aren't available to let me install a new firmware and it's diffult to...

Hi All, I am using EZ USB FX2 dev kit. I am just new to this all and need to program 8051 through a firmware program. I am working in...

Hi All, I am using EZ USB FX2 dev kit. I am just new to this all and need to program 8051 through a firmware program. I am working in windows environment. I need help about how to start and specially in finding some sample "firmware Program" which can be compiled through keil. Thanks in advance

I posted this earlier, but I believe it may have been discarded due to the subject heading. Several key words in it could have confused an...

I posted this earlier, but I believe it may have been discarded due to the subject heading. Several key words in it could have confused an automated script to discard it as junk. Crossing my fingers that I don't double post here... I am developing a widget. Management wants me to structure the firmware in such a way that the widget has a few tiers of functionality. The functionality is all enab...

Hi... I need some suggestions. I own an old 1990 vintage piece of HP test gear that has an annoying firmware bug that I thought (for fun) I...

Hi... I need some suggestions. I own an old 1990 vintage piece of HP test gear that has an annoying firmware bug that I thought (for fun) I would attempt to track down by reverse engineering some of the firmware. The system uses a 68030 controller and I pulled the eproms and made a binary image in order to disassemble. I have a very good reason to believe that HP used a variant of HP uni...

Hi I have a portable recording device from Boss that I'd like to reverse- engineer a bit. They've made firmware updates freely available...

Hi I have a portable recording device from Boss that I'd like to reverse- engineer a bit. They've made firmware updates freely available on their web pages. What information can I extract from those images? I'd like to know micro-controller model, compiler and used OS. The update contains 3 .bin files, one of which is bootloader. I've extracted all strings from images, and gained little i...

Hello everybody, I am working on FX2 CY7C68013.. I am writing a C++ code to save the data in a file. I have succes to do it but now I want to...

Hello everybody, I am working on FX2 CY7C68013.. I am writing a C++ code to save the data in a file. I have succes to do it but now I want to download my firmware in the chip using my C++ code. I am using visual 6 C++ and the librairy cyapi.lib. I have search on the documentation of this librairy but I haven't found something about this. So I have done other research on internet and ...

Folks, Upon using SDCC for compiling the skeleton firmware provided by Friess and McNeill (2005), I get the following cryptic linker...

Folks, Upon using SDCC for compiling the skeleton firmware provided by Friess and McNeill (2005), I get the following cryptic linker error: "Error-Could not get 5 consecutive bytes in internal RAM for area DSEG." What is going on here? Please write directly to my mailbox. Thank you, Gavin Brewer. PS. For more information see: http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~walpole/525...

Hi all, I'm currently involved in the development af an embedded device running on a ARM9 platform and a eCosPro RTOS from ecoscentric. We...

Hi all, I'm currently involved in the development af an embedded device running on a ARM9 platform and a eCosPro RTOS from ecoscentric. We need to upload firmware updates (rahter big images) to the device via the GUI - a web interface. First it was our intention to use the webserver, default package of the eCos repository, "ahttpd", which is very nice but does not support file upload for...

Hello, I am currently trying to develop a firmware on FX2 microcontroller from cypress, which is able to send continously data to a windows...

Hello, I am currently trying to develop a firmware on FX2 microcontroller from cypress, which is able to send continously data to a windows pc. However I have no idea where to start my doings. Should I first begin to program a windows application (do I need to write a driver?) or should I start programming the FX2-firmware. What I need is some kind of sample, that demonstrate the communica...

Hi guys, I'm Looking for an experienced embedded firmware C programmer to develop real-time communication and instrumentation and...

Hi guys, I'm Looking for an experienced embedded firmware C programmer to develop real-time communication and instrumentation and control firmware for a new boards. Familiarity with hardware debugging techniques will be necessary, and ability to work from less than perfect (and changing) documentation. Currently using high end PICs and Ethernet communications. FPGA familiarity wouldn't hurt...

Hi, I am using cypress FX2 usb chip. I have configured it as RENUM = 1 i.e. all commands coming on endpoint0 are handled by firmware. Now I am...

Hi, I am using cypress FX2 usb chip. I have configured it as RENUM = 1 i.e. all commands coming on endpoint0 are handled by firmware. Now I am using EP6 as In, Bulk, 512 byte, Double buffered. When host requests an IN packet its request is fulfilled only twice when double buffering is used and only 4 times when quad buffering is use. I think the problem is that firmware has to decrement and make ...