GNU Radio is an open source Software Defined Radio (SDR) project that was started about ten years ago by Eric Blossom, an electrical engineer.

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how you can perform serial port communication in the VBA (Visual Basic Applications - script editor included in any typical Microsoft Excel distribution) but without using the MSComm control or any other third party add-on or ActiveX.

One Wire File system (OWFS) is a Linux application (also available on Windows) which allows to work with 1-Wire devices as if they were regular file - read and write operations performed on a file are actually executed on the physical device.

Google has recently released under an Apache license the latest version of the Android SDK, a platform for developing mobile applications.

Analog to digital converter (ADC) are widely used today in many electronic applications and appliances, such as audio recording, biomedical instrumentation, test and monitoring equipments, and so on. The following notes explain a valid algorithm through which it is possible to perform the ADC calibration.

This article describes the support done in Erika Enterprise for the Evidence/Embedded solutions Flex Board. 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 (R) DSC family.

When configuring the EDF kernel for an Erika Enterprise application, the user has the possibility to specify the tick length in the OIL file to allow the specification of a relative deadline using a temporal value.

This section describes the details about the various configuration options which are available to create and compile an Erika Enterprise application for a dsPIC (R) DSC microcontroller.

Do not be tricked by the headline, this is not otherworldly. But let's start with order: what problem do we want to solve?

As the popularity of GPL and other open source licenses, legal issues are always making noise along with the growing of embedded systems.