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a computer program is not a patentable invention
This little gem comes from NZ via Computerworld. Tuesday, 06 April 2010 ======================== Thumbs down for software patents in NZ Commerce Select Committee tips its hat to open source submissions Open source software champions have been influential in excluding software from the scope of patents in... 23 Apr 2010 20:37

Which way to go?
Hi Everyone, first post and looking for a little advice or some recommendations. I'm looking to do a thermocouple (tc) project that has to be able to handle types K, N or R. Each may be used from 0degC upto their maximum temps as shown in the NIST tc tables.(1300-1600degC) My limited background is in 68hc05 assembly... 20 Apr 2010 15:41

HI-TECH c compiler
i'm using the microchip mplab ide with hi-tech c compiler integrated into it ,mplab version 8.46 what ever the c code i try to build it keeps giving me Error [939] ; . no file arguments i dont know what to do to make it build my code ,i wish if there is one can enlighten me about it ,i know its a newibe questi... 5 Apr 2010 08:16

PCB routing
Hi all ! I'm being project on a based MPC8315E. I have some experience on High Speed PCB routing (DDR & DDRII) but never PCI-e or SATA. I would be very grateful if someone could recommend me a book on the topic and generally speaking on High Speed PCB guidelines (and theory) Best regards, Habib. ... 4 Apr 2010 19:16

BlackFin BF531 and MT48LC4M16
Hello, this is a question to guys with some experience with AD BlackFin BF531 (or BF533) - normally I would ask on blackfin.org, but it was shut down some time ago... Anyway... I've connected MT46LC4M16 (1 Meg x 16 x 4 banks) SDRAM to my BF531, I've initialized it (although I'm not sure about those settings), bu... 8 Apr 2010 17:24

Direct Client Requirement
Need SAP Business Analyst with Infrastructure Exp Location: Plano, TX Duration: 4 Months Please do send the profiles to rohini(a)innovativeinfotech.com High Level Job Description: Responsible for analyzing the business needs of clients and stakeholders to help identify business problems and propose solution... 2 Apr 2010 04:56

Compact Flash sustained write speed issues
Hi I am currently working on upgrading a legacy embedded application using CFC for real-time storage. When the system was designed (circa 2000/2001), the Hitachi controllers prevalent in the CFC market could sustain high write speeds for small numbers of sectors (ie. 4). Since then though, as published card speeds ... 2 Apr 2010 10:22

TCP/IP throughput with lwip in bf536
hi, i'm new to bf536 vdk with lwip project. I evaluating the throughput of lwip stack. On TCP i'm getting only 5.0Mbps and On UDP i'm getting only 32Mbps for 100Mbps link. Can anybody tell me what i've to do to improve the throughput. Thanks in advance Ragards Cho ------------------------------... 1 Apr 2010 12:21

crc32 calculation
hey! i am using spartan 3E board to transmit UDP packets to my pc. I have implemented most of it, i have interfaced the PHY but there seems to be one problem, the data leaves the FPGA bt the packet is dropped at the pc's end, how i know it is that i can see the light blink bt nothing gets through to ethereal. I am as... 6 Apr 2010 10:45

What's NOPs of NAND
Hi all, I'm very new to NAND flash. I've come across this: http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/products/fusionmemory/Products_FAQs_Reliability.html " Q 01.What is the NOP? A 01. NOP is an acronym for the 'Number Of Partial programs'. It indicates how many times users can program on a singl... 9 Apr 2010 07:46