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I first learned of the STM32 Primer at a technical seminar presented by STMicroelectronics. The STM32 Primer is designed to provide a complete toolset for STM32 that is fun and easy to use. Give it a try and learn about the features of the STM32 and the powerful ARM Cortex™-M3 core.

A web widget is a mini-web application you can put in your web page, blog or social profile that can quickly and easily provide your visitors with, user specific information , extra functionality, and even a bit of fun and games.

I never handled an iPod touch until a few days a ago. But a friend of mine received as birthday present the media player iPod Touch and so I had the chance to analyze it. What can I say? It's very thin and surprising. Once you start using it, you can not leave it! The iPod touch has a reduced size: height 110mm, width 61.8mm and only 8 mm thick. Weighs only 120 grams. The 3.5 inches widescreen format display has a resolution of 480 x 320 pixels at 163 ppi. The iPod touch provides Wi-Fi wireless connectivity (802.11b/g) - the only iPod to have it. It is also provided with the lithium ion integrated battery that guarantees up to 24 hours of music and up to 5 hours of viewing video and web browsing. It can be charged through USB connection. With the iPod Touch you can listen to music, play movies and it can also be used to wirelessly surf the Web. All that really lacks is the ability to call another person. Surely you'll say: "Ok! We already know these things !" But I propose you to watch inside the iPod touch, to understand what makes it so strong.
Without no doubt is based on MEMS (micro electro-mechanical systems) from ST, products which I heard to the ST-NEWS2008 Silverstar Seminar and I wrote something in STM32 Primer - The Inteligent Butterfly.

A diary, a hobby, a game - so we started. Before I liked to say "diary" but now I like more "blog" - this word seems more serious and challenging for the work that we do. It 'a blog on electronic design.

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Today, the boundaries between the general purpose PCs, the servers and the embedded systems are more blurred. These computers are sharing same platfroms, same periperals. For example, an x86/Mac PC can be used as a server, an x86/PowerPC CPU can be used in an embedded system like portable navigation device (PND). On the other way, the popular embedded processor StrongARM was a powerful desktop PC processor for the DEC workstation, and the embedded systems often also act servers, like NAS (Network Attached Storage). As same as the hardware suppliers, the OS suppliers port their products into the desktop PCs, servers and embedded systems.

Does the title confuse you? It's very simple...Take a teacher of literature and put her in the middle of the electronics world. I have landed like this at the ST-NEWS2008 Silverstar Seminar. Maybe you ask yourself what do literature and electronics have in common .... well let me tell you: nothing! But we don't know what life can give us and we must always be ready to change the job and, more importantly, to learn news things! I already attende some seminars, but there we talked about the metaphors or the liaison between the human been and the nature and for sure not about... microcontrollers! Luckily working since 2007 on this web site helped me a lot, so I did not feel like an alien!
Immediately after 9 o'clock a.m. Mr. Favato has presented the Seminar Schedule: new microcontrollers:STM8 e STM32 (as ST Microcontrollers Manager told me when I met him last July), MEMS , Analogic Products and Bluetooth. And from now on my article becomes serious thanks to all the notes I wrote down to make you know all these new products.

ARM is a 32-bit RISC processor architecture, developed by ARM Limited that is the most widely used 16/32-bit embedded RISC solution in the world. The ARM instruction set architecture has evolved significantly since it was first developed, and will continue to be developed in the future!

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ERIKA Enterprise is an innovative RTOS for small microcontrollers based on an API similar to those proposed by the OSEK/VDX Consortium.The ERIKA Enterprise kernel implements innovative scheduling algorithms such as Fixed Priority with preemption thresholds, Stack Resource Policy (SRP), and Earliest Deadline First (EDF), which can be used to schedule tasks with real-time requirements.
ERIKA Enterprise is available in double licensing, both GPL and commercial, and has a very small footprint: typically, a minimal installation of ERIKA Enterprise consumes from 800 to 2000 bytes of code, for the implementation of a fixed priority scheduling kernel with stack sharing and binary mutexes.

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Arrow Electronics Expands Distribution Agreement With Delta Electronics to Include DC/DC Converters

MELVILLE, N.Y., Dec. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The North American Components business of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW) announced an expansion of its distribution agreement with Delta Electronics, Inc., the world's largest provider of switching power supplies, to include Delta's Delphi Series of standard DC/DC converters.

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FLEX is an embedded board which can be used by all the developers who want to fully exploit the potential of the latest Microchip micro-controllers: the dsPIC� DSC family.
FLEX is born as a development board where to easily develop and test real-time applications for the Microchip dsPIC� DSC micro-controller. The main features of FLEX are:
* robust electronic design;
* modular architecture;
* availability of a growing number of application notes;
* the full support of the Erika Enterprise real-time kernel from Evidence Srl.
You can BUY it or DIY

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Develop a single-click digital control automatic code generation tool for FLEX!
Using the Scilab/Scicos FLEX Toolbox it is possible to automatically generate code from Scicos control diagrams to fast prototype control algorithms and digital control systems for microcontroller and DSP embedded application.
Main idea: Develop a single-click digital control automatic code generation tool for FLEX!
To use The Scilab/Scicos code generator you need at least the following hardware and software:

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Texas Instruments Incorporated today announced the availability of five new families of MSP430F2xx high-performance microcontrollers, the industry's lowest-power 16-bit general purpose microcontrollers (MCUs).

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DALLAS (Dec. 10, 2007) - Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today introduced a tiny, high-voltage boost converter with an integrated 40-V, 1.2-A FET and a wide input-voltage range of 3-V to 18-V. The high-efficiency device supports boost, SEPIC (single-ended primary inductor converter) and flyback topologies, which are used to regulate single or dual Li-Ion battery inputs. Available in a 2 mm x 2 mm QFN package, the converter simplifies design in industrial or medical point-of-load applications, such as 5-V to 12-V or 12-V to 24-V systems. See: www.ti.com/tps61170-pr.

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Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) and Arrow Electronics Inc. will present a live Analog eLabTM Webcast for designers titled "Selecting the Right Isolation Solution" on Wednesday, December 12, 2007, at 11:00 a.m. CST.

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