By Lexy Andati on July 21, 2016
For a while, I had been working on my first “Real” embedded system code on an ARM Cortex m4 microprocessor, the MK60N512 , which comes with the NXP towerkit, TWRK60N512 , and obviously, my first task was to make at least one LED blink on the board. Seeing as I was used to the easy […]
Posted in Embedded systems | Tagged ARM, microcontroller, twr-k60n512 |
By Karibe on July 20, 2016
Japanese mobile giant SoftBank has agreed to acquire British chip designer ARM in a deal worth £24.3 billion (about $32 billion). Sprint’s parent company just bought ARM, the biggest smartphone chip designer
Posted in News | Tagged ARM |
By Chelmis Muthoni on July 18, 2016
OpenSCAD is an awesome parametric 3D CAD modeling software that focuses on allowing you to describe the model in a scripting language and renders the output onscreen. Because the model is described in code rather than objects, it can easily be changed, updated and parameterized. The part can be customized without changing much in the […]
Posted in Embedded systems | Tagged KiCad, openSCAD |
By Karibe on July 16, 2016
I had my good share of datasheet reading with Joe, one of our many interns at work. We are working on this purely bare-metal serial bootloader project. The first milestone is to have a board bring-up firmware with a working start up script, linker script and system clocks initialization. We then added a single LED […]
Posted in Embedded systems | Tagged ARM, cortex_m0+, interrupts |
By Karibe on July 12, 2016
I have been using evince, the default Ubuntu PDF viewer for as long as I can remember my first Ubuntu installation. Lately, it got me annoyed. The reason is simple, there is this large PDF datasheet for a micro-controller that I read which is over 1800 pages and whenever I open the index, its in […]
Posted in Documentation, Linux | Tagged PDF, ubuntu |
By Karibe on July 12, 2016
I have Kinetis Design Studio (KDS) version 3 installed on my Ubuntu 16.04 machine. I know I can use PE Micro gdbserver from the eclipse IDE interface, but what about putting it in a makefile somewhere because I am turning into an automation freak 😛 The reason I want this is simple, I am doing […]
Posted in Embedded systems | Tagged debug, frdm-kl25z, Kinetis Design Studio, NXP, PEMicroelectronics |
By Karibe on July 1, 2016
To convert .rpm package file to a .deb, you can use the alien command: alien file.rpm after installing alien using the command: sudo apt install alien The main challenge i faced was that my RPM package was a 32bit package and I have a 64bit Ubuntu system. To get around this, we you can use […]
Posted in Linux | Tagged alien, deb, fakeroot, rpm, ubuntu |
By Karibe on June 26, 2016
A colleague at work had this TL-WR741ND TP-Link router, and being a tinkerer like me, he had already flashed it with OpenWRT. He tried to flash back the original firmware but it somehow backfired and then he had this failing OpenWRT router that wasn’t working properly. I couldn’t telnet to the router to get a […]
Posted in Linux | Tagged firmware, OpenWRT, TP-Link |
By Karibe on June 24, 2016
I have struggled for quite a while with this problem of the ethernet cable connection not working on my HP Probook 6460b laptop with Ubuntu 16.04, whenever I go somewhere there is no wifi. So Wifi works just fine, so whats the matter with ethernet cable? first of, no more eth0 interface as of Ubuntu […]
Posted in Linux | Tagged ubuntu |
By Karibe on June 17, 2016
Check the version of kernel you are currently running on the computer uname -r Get the kernel utilities repo on your computer git clone https://github.com/mtompkins/linux-kernel-utilities.git cd into the repository directory cd linux-kernel-utilities/ At this point, if you had cloned this repo a while ago and you want to get latest kernel, its advisable to update […]
Posted in Linux | Tagged kernel, ubuntu |
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