One of the most frustrating and annoying programs on my Windows computers used to be the Adobe PDF reader. Back in its early versions it was a fast, light, useful program. Then a few years ago somebody at Adobe drank…
A Remarkable Sentence
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Blackfin Fast JPEG Encoding
Recently I’ve been doing a lot of embedded uClinux programming for the Analog Devices Blackfin BF537 processor. Writing drivers, application code, things like that. It’s a lot of fun. One of the things I’d been battling with was finding a…
Welec Oscilloscope – Watch Out
Last year I was in the market for a cheap digital oscilloscope. After much looking around I finally settled on a Wittig Welec W2022A oscilloscope. www.welec.de 2 channels, colour VGA display, 1 GS/sec sampling rate, it looked awesome. I purchased…