Analog, Mixed-signal and Optoelectronic Components and Subsystems
Avago Technologies Semiconductors
Avago Technologies brings together the capabilities and track record of an established global leader with the "energy and responsiveness of a startup. We spent our first three decades as part of HP, ......"
Semiconductor IP supplier, Fast and low power 32-bit RISC microprocessor cores, Customizable processor and DSP core for SOC Design.
Tensilica - Processor and DSP cores for SOC
Dataplane Processor Units (DPUs) - Performance intensive DSP and embedded RISC processing functions.
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General Information -
DSP could be used in Audio, Video, 3D, Photos and Communications related functions.
RISC Processor used in networking, embedded control, encryption, speedy computing.
OpenCores design and publish core designs
"Our main objective is to design and publish core designs under a license for hardware modelled on the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) for software. We are committed to the ideal of freely available, freely usable and re-usable open source hardware. OpenCores.org"
Subsidiary objectives
These tools and methods should allow large, widespread, even international, teams to develop hardware in an open way.
StickOS BASIC is intended to make embedded systems technology and advanced microcontroller functionality quickly and easily accessible to High School students, hobbyists, and researchers, etc., with minimal investment of time, education, and money.
Embedded Systems Made Easy - StickOS
Interfacing with digital circuitry, analog circuitry, serial circuitry (UART and SPI), servo motors, and buzzers, etc., all become trivial single-line, single-minute tasks in StickOS BASIC, so the user can concentrate on achieving the control task at hand, rather than the detailed mechanics of control.
StickOS Examples - A simple embedded system, like a toaster oven temperature profile controller, can be brought online in record time!
- Rich Testardi (mail)
"StickOS BASIC is an entirely MCU-resident interactive programming environment, which includes an easy-to-use editor, transparent line-by-line compiler, interactive debugger, performance profiler, and flash filesystem, all controlled thru an interactive command-line user interface….
CPUStick is a 1″x4″ very low cost standalone USB embedded computer based on the Freescale MCF52252 ColdFire MCU and MC13201 ZigFlea Wireless Transceiver,…"
Products for the hand-held mobile device market. Platforms include ArcticLink for Customer Specific Standard Product (CSSP) solution in the display and connectivity subsystems of Smartphones, Smartbooks, Netbooks, Mobile Internet Devices. PolarPro for the interconnect and system logic requirements of power sensitive and portable applications.
QuickLogic - Flexible Semiconductor Platforms
ViaLink - CSSP - Combination of hard-wired application-specific logic and a flexible programmable fabric for customer-specific applications.
ViaLinks are electrically programmable, so that customers can quickly customize the QuickLogic platforms/products to meet customer-specific requirements.
Freescale Semiconductor is the leading manufacturer of microcontrollers, microprocessors and semiconductors.
Products Include -
8/16/32 Bit Microcontrollers and Processors, ARM-based Processors, Digital Signal Processors, Digital Signal Controllers, Power Architecture Processors and Analog/RF Interface Chips.
Freescale - Semiconductors and Microcontrollers
HCS12C Student Learning Kits - Freescale
Good for Building Projects on Robotics, Control System and Sensors/Motors Interface. Kit includes required hardware, CodeWarrior Development Software, and informational CD.
Twitter Interface - @Freescale - Embedded Semiconductor Solutions
Professor Mark Csele - Projects and Hobbies
Nixie Thermostat - A heating and cooling thermostat employing technologies spanning fourty years from the unique Nixie tube display, circa 1960's, to a PIC 18F microcontroller, circa 2006.
A PIC-based Temperature Alarm - An alarm which warns when temperatures fall below or rise above user-settable limits. I use the prototype in my cold cellar to warn when canned goods are about to freeze and another version to control the temperature of the carboy in which I ferment wine. Features a user-friendly two-line LCD display.
A High-Powered Power Backup Inverter - The working prototype of the 2 KVA inverter is complete. Fed from an array of lead-acid cells totalling 600 Ah (at 12 Volts), it easily drives real-world loads such as single-phase motors. The inverter has been tested and found to operate at an efficiency of between 71% and 82% driving a variety of both inductive and resistive loads
