Posts tagged as howto

PRODUCT HOW-TO: Doing embedded design with an Eclipse-based IDE

Step-by-step, Express Logic's John Carbone describes how to use the Ecipse-based BenchX Integrated Development Environment to do embedded systems desi...

PRODUCT HOW-TO: Taking the delay out of your multicore design's intra-chip interconnections

Today's SOC designers readily accept the idea of using multiple processor cores in their complex systems to achieve design goals. Unfortunately, a 40-...

PRODUCT HOW-TO: Hardware IP design reuse made easy with Altium's Innovation Station

Phil Loughhead take you step by step through a "how-I-did-it" desciption of his design of a hardware prototype from conception to complete hardware pr...

PRODUCT HOW-TO: Bringing programmability to portable design

How Actel's flash based FPGAs can be used to replace ASICs and SRAM-based FPGAs in many portable devices...

Product how-to: DSP/FPGA platform for video surveillance

Avnet's video surveillance platform pairs a TI DM6437 DaVinci DSP with a Xilinx Spartan-3A DSP FPGA. here's how the platform works, and how to get the...

PRODUCT HOW-TO: Building an FPGA-based Digital Down Converter

When compared on a size/power/cost per channel basis, narrowband, high channel-count DDC cores can be very efficiently implemented in FPGAs....

PRODUCT HOW-TO: Building an FPGA-based Digital Down Converter

When compared on a size/power/cost per channel basis, narrowband, high channel-count DDC cores can be very efficiently implemented in FPGAs....

PRODUCT HOW-TO: The care and feeding of embedded Linux running on MIPS CPUs

An update on the use of Linux in many embedded consumer and networking applications and how MIPS Technologies hardware and software can be used to mak...

How-to Tuesday: Arduino 101 the button

This is the second installment of a series about programming our favorite little micro-controller, the Arduino. Last week I covered connecting and bl...

Flashback: Howtoons Rola Bola

Some of the best things in life are the simplest. Case in point: Howtoons' Rola Bola project from MAKE Volume 08. The Rola Bola is essentially just ...