effluvia of a scattered mind

Its a royal PITA to specify the pinout of a 144 pin part! So there is no point to doing this more than once -- across the entire internet. ...

For some reason, Lattice provides its new Diamond GUI for the second most popular Linux distribution instead of Ubuntu, the most popular di...

After a quite a bit of comparative evaluation I chose the Lattice XP2 FPGA and the Brevia demo board for a bit of hardware hacking. (In sh...

I've recently been working on a simple PSOC (www.cypress.com/psoc) project using the CY8C64315 USB chip and can't help but compare i...

There is an interesting read about an "open hardware" license here: http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html But I am interested in something ...

I just finished reading "Den of Thieves" by James Stewart which is about the junk bond scandal that hit wall street in the '8...

What is PWM? PWM (pulse width modulation) is the art of faking a particular voltage by rapidly moving between 2 other voltages. For exampl...

Firefox has a cool extension called pyxpcomext that sticks a Python interpreter inside your browser! But as is it is pretty hard to use unl...

I did not populate my Lightuino LED board with excessive LEDs. In retrospect, that is kind of ironic. But the board is made for you to put...

From references In designing the Lightuino I wanted to improve on my existing CCShield in several ways and provide an alternative to the Rai...