The scope of this article is to show how you can enhance your serial trace logs adding a touch of originality and distinction: the colors. Colored trace logs are very useful, since by using a common communication program (such as Tera Term Pro on Windows or minicom on Linux, both freeware), you can give a different level of priority (importance) to your trace logs.

Everybody knows Linux as an open-source operating system - available today for many different hardware architectures - which has become the de facto alternative to the Redmond’s product, especially in the servers segment. What is interesting to notice is that Linux is the most widely used O.S. on supercomputers, so we can say: "supercomputers love Linux!".

The scope of this article is to introduce the reader to a famous, old (but still under production manufactured by Intersil Corporation) microprocessor, which contribution to many challenging and valuable electronics projects and applications has been widely recognized: the RCA CDP1802 (also known as COSMAC)

Freescale MC9S08JS16/8 is an entry-level 8-bit USB MCU family expressly designed for cost-effective wireless applications and PC peripherals. The JS16 provides an integrated full-speed USB 2.0 device controller and USB transceiver, thus allowing to reduce the need for external components.

The scope of this article is to describe the basic concepts related to CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check), an efficient and widely used way to protect data against accidental corruption.

Freescale has introduced on the i.MX31 processor family an innovative and powerful technology, called Smart Speed, which is able to deliver fast and power-efficient processing for mobile devices.

In a previous article we have seen the basic concepts related to the CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) calculation and its importance in providing a protection against accidental data corruption. Scope of this article is to show how those concepts have been applied on a commercial microcontroller family: the Flexis AC by Freescale.

Freescale PowerQUICC® III family of processors has imposed itself as the leading solution for communication systems, becoming a reference point for the wireless, networking, and switching fields of application.

FireWire is a high speed and low-cost serial bus, initially developed by Apple and Texas Instruments.

Portable Ubuntu for Windows is a compact yet complete Ubuntu system that can be executed directly in Windows as if it were a regular software application designed for that operating system.

The Flexis MCU family represents an additional and important step in the direction of innovation and continuity: it brings to life the Controller Continuum.

STMicroelectronics has extended the STM32 products family introducing a new series of microcontrollers: the STM32 connectivity line, which includes the new devices STM32F105 and STM32F107, both based on the 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3 processor.

IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM is an integrated development environment (IDE) designed for building and debugging embedded applications for the ARM microprocessor. It includes a C/C++ compiler able to achieve a high level of optimization, thus generating a very compact and efficient FLASH/PROMable code.

MPXY8300 is designed for automobiles and medium/heavy duty trucks, features extremely low power consumption, accurate precision and sensing, and improves the vehicle safety.

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

Today the automotive world is experiencing a period of sufferance mainly due to the global economical recession which is affecting many industrial activities all over the world.

Freescale Semiconductor is a leading company in the field of electronic sensors, offering a wide and complete family of acceleration, pressure, and proximity sensors.

Micronas has recently announced the HAL880, a linear programmable Hall-effect sensor which adds to the existing HAL 8xy family of Hall sensors.

Mobile access has recently got a turbocharger thanks to a 3G/UMTS technology called HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access), first developed in Japan and now available in many countries all over the world.

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.

Whatever kind of electronic application you are developing, designing, or just thinking in your mind, it is expected that it has or will have in the next future a wireless feature.

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.

Ramtron, a leader company in the field of F-RAM, has recently announced a new series of memories with serial interface (SPI), able to provide high read/write speed, low power supply, and a great number of write-erase cycles (10E15 or more).

FlexRay is a high-speed, wide bandwidth, fault tolerant, and deterministic protocol suitable to introduce x-by-wire solutions in the automotive field.