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A quick start-up guide for TI’s Stellaris Launchpad

The Stellaris® LM4F120 LaunchPad Evaluation Board is a low-cost evaluation platform for ARM® Cortex™-M4F-based microcontrollers from Texas Instruments. This quick start-up guide from Texas Instruments will help you verify that your tools are properly installed and that you can edit, compile, download and debug your code on the Stellaris® LM4F120 LaunchPad.

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EasyPIC Fusion v7: A single development board for dsPIC33, PIC24 and PIC32 architectures

MikroElektronika has released EasyPIC Fusion™ v7 development board that supports three different Microchip processor families: dsPIC33, PIC24 and PIC32. The board is equipped with mikroProg, a fast USB 2.0 programmer and debugger. The board contains Ethernet, CAN, two USB-UARTs, USB host and device connectors, Piezo Buzzer, microSD card slot, stereo mp3 codec, sockets for temperature sensors, analog inputs and much more. Each microcontroller I/O pin is connected to 2 male headers, push button and LED, making it ready for all kinds of development.

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Tilt sensing illustration with DE0-NANO FPGA board

After building a 40 pin breakout board for the DE0-Nano Chris from PyroElectro wanted to test it out with something fun but not overly complex. So he decided to try something fun with an accelerometer available on the DE0-Nano board. In this tutorial, he shows how an accelerometer works, how it can be used to detect tilt and also how the tilt ‘value’ can be visually displayed on a large array of LEDs.  

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Breakout board for DE0-Nano FPGA development board

DE0-Nano is a great FPGA development and education board featuring the Altera Cyclone® IV 4C22 FPGA with 22,320 Logic elements (LEs), 594 Embedded memory (Kbits), 66 Embedded 18 x 18 multipliers, 4 General-purpose PLLs, and 153 Maximum FPGA I/O pins. Since not all of these I/O pins are used very often, Chris from PyroElectro has made his own expansion board for easy prototyping with DE0-Nano. He designed a PCB for his breakout board that basically connects to the 2×20 pin headers on the DE0-Nano through an IDE cable and makes those I/O pins easily available for prototyping on breadboard.

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