I'm doing some rapid "blinkenlights" prototypes for timer code today on the K32L2 board. The goal is to have two separate timers driving two LEDs using interrupt service routines. None of this code is optimized or ideal... I'm leveraging the NXP SDK and the examples that go with it for one Systick-driven LED and another […]
August 2021 Background Here, we're going to apply ThrowTheSwitch's Unity unit test framework to C programs. The test framework is available on GitHub. Three files need to be downloaded from the GitHub. There are a few more files that need to be developed within VPL to make it work, and those are described below. We're […]
this is a work in progress... nothing is finalized and no decision made at this point. Just doing a market survey for now... many people need to be consulted and this will have to be a joint decision... We'll use an internal (to York) Teams page to flesh out the details. Key characteristics Price. (low […]
While I was on sabbatical from York University I had the opportunity to teach twice at the University of Applied Sciences in Karlsruhe, Germany (Hochschule Karlsruhe, a.k.a HsKa). I had been invited to do so by Professor Klemens Gintner, a colleague and friend who I had hosted during his sabbatical in Toronto in 2015. It […]
As part of my sabbatical activities I took on the "Temps Pratiques" microcontroller laboratory sessions for electrical engineering and mechatronics students at INSA Strasbourg. In pre-sabbatical discussions with faculty and staff at INSA Strasbourg I found out that the students were learning using what I considered to be outdated technologies. The PIC16F84A microcontroller chip used […]