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Projects?

It seems to me that many of the 'regular' contributors are very savvy in the art of embedded design. I was wondering just what projects they are doing, or have done in the past that are worthy of mentioning?

I think our readers might be interested in such works, and give the casual reader something to ponder: especially since they are taking advice from these 'regular' contributors.

--Cpt. Vince Foster
2nd Cannon Place
Fort Marcy Park, VA

P.S. I'm an irregular contributor

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  • (I'm back from the doctors... I'm sane. <whew>)

    erik,

    That sounded like a fun project.

    And yes, some people are afraid of multi-controller designs because they have a hard enough time with just one controller.

    What really hurts their brains is when you arbitrate between processors using FPGAs as a gateway, with a migration path to incorporate the uCs into the FPGAs.

    --Cpt. Vince Foster
    2nd Cannon Place
    Fort Marcy Park, VA

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  • (I'm back from the doctors... I'm sane. <whew>)

    erik,

    That sounded like a fun project.

    And yes, some people are afraid of multi-controller designs because they have a hard enough time with just one controller.

    What really hurts their brains is when you arbitrate between processors using FPGAs as a gateway, with a migration path to incorporate the uCs into the FPGAs.

    --Cpt. Vince Foster
    2nd Cannon Place
    Fort Marcy Park, VA

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  • I enjoyed the number of different projects listed in these posts.
    Like Eric, my first computers used little glass thingies called 'valves'. At least across the pond they were called valves.
    So, I have many project memories but none that intentionally went "boom".
    One more memorable project was a simple battery charger/controller for 2000 Amps at 880 Volts.
    Another project where I re-discovered the difference between a flame front and a flow front while extinguishing a hydrogen torch. For that project, I was invited to remove my prototype far from the lab area.
    A third effort was moving material on an air track while operating in a partial vacuum.

    But, going back over some war stories, the one thing that jumps foremost to mind is the fantastic tools that we have today.
    Compilers, wizards, embedded logic analyzers and debuggers make todays efforts more fun and a lot more effective.
    As the good Cpt. mentions, multicore processors embedded in FPGA fabric are very exciting to work with.
    Again the tools are awesume and the vendors continue to out perform each other and we get the benefit.
    Al Bradford