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FTPmicro is a web-server or ftp-client, as big as a DIP40 package, based on the PIC18F67J60.

Despite the small dimensions, the board has some interesting features:
1) A microSD card slot
2) A TC1047 temperature sensor
3) Many analog and digital I/O pins
4) Microchip TCP/IP stack
5) Connector for the ICD2 programmer/debugger by Microchip
6) DIP40 package, enters perfectly in a socket of a 40 PIN DIL microprocessor.
7) Dimensions (90x20)mm
8) A FAT16 Filesystem is used, so you can realize the web-pages directly on PC and then read by FTPmicro through the SD memory.
9) FREE EXAMPLES & Open Source CODE

EXAMPLES OF APPLICATION:

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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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:

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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Learning to Fly the PIC 24

Lucio Di Jasio
Application Segments Manager, Microchip, Chandler, AZ, USA

·A Microchip insider tells all on the newest, most powerful PICs ever!

·Condenses typical introductory "fluff" focusing instead on examples
and exercises that show how to solve common, real-world design problems
quickly

·Includes handy checklists to help readers perform the most common programming and debugging tasks

·FREE CD-ROM includes source code in C, the Microchip C30 compiler, and
MPLAB SIM software, so that readers gain practical, hands-on
programming experience

·Check out the author's Web site at http://www.flyingpic24.com for FREE downloads, FAQs, and updates

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This story 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. Flex is born as a development board where to easily develop and test real-time applications for the dsPIC (R) DSC micro-controller.

Embedded applications often require tight control on the temporal behavior of each single activity in the system. The research in the field of real-time systems brought the team of Evidence Srl to design a small, efficient, modular real-time kernel that can be used to easily guarantee real-time constraints in every embedded applications. Erika Enterprise and RT-Druid represent the answer of Evidence Srl for the development of scalable real-time applications for the Microchip dsPIC (R) DSC family.

Erika Enterprise and RT-Druid for dsPIC (R) DSC: support for Microchip dsPIC (R) DSC
Embedded microcontroller units are spreading in thousands of applications, ranging from single to distributed systems, control applications, multimedia, communication, medical applications and many others. Modern microcontrollers, which are growing in computational power, speed and interfacing capabilities, are more and more feeling the need of tools to make the development of complex scalable applications easier.
The dsPIC (R) DSC family represents the latest product of Microchip Technology Inc., the world leading company in the field of microcontroller units. With a speed of up to 40 MHz, the dsPIC (R) DSC family seamlessly integrates a DSP core for high performance computation with a full range of interfaces to several buses like CAN, I2C, SPI, serial lines, ecc.