http://microblog.routed.net by Nick Chernyy Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:27:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This weeks target is the MSP430F161(1). On a side note, I will be attending the last Hope conference in a few weeks and am looking forward to Travis Goodspeed's MSP430 talk. msp430-4x-stitch2.jpg [gallery] http://microblog.routed.net/2008/07/04/ic-friday-tis-msp430f161/ Last week, the rest of my family moved from Yalta, Ukraine to Washington D.C., USA, bringing with them their cat. Ukraine is known for various corrupt activities, including pirating games and replacing everything with mods to make it look like a Ukranian game. This is often done very poorly, and ... http://microblog.routed.net/2008/06/30/national-usa-vulnerability-database-feeds/ My family is moving from Yalta to Washington D.C. so I am taking some time off to get their house ready. I have some spare time to explore the "advanced" features of my mobile phone. Below are a few tools that I found very handy in getting the most of ... http://microblog.routed.net/2008/06/24/windows-mobile-tools/ This weeks entry is the 20-bit delta-sigma DAC from TI. dac1220-10x-stitch.jpg [gallery] http://microblog.routed.net/2008/06/20/ic-friday-tis-dac1220/ In a rare turn of events, I have plagiarized a figure from one of my own writeups. As I have promised before, I wrote up a basic introduction to the necessary electromagnetics and the Yagi-Uda design. This is the first version, so please feel free to comment where I can ... http://microblog.routed.net/2008/06/20/yagi-uda-writeup/ I am spending the first half of this week in Cleveland, Ohio at the 2008 Neural Interfaces conference. The first day was spent mostly discussing neural stimulation as an interface paradigm. Judging from the presentations, deep brain stimulation (DBS) is the most popular in both the research and medical communities. There ... http://microblog.routed.net/2008/06/17/update-from-the-neural-interfaces-conference/ Today's entry is the LMC6042 dual-op amp from National Semiconductor. The layout of this device is a bit different from a standard op-amp due to the inclusion of some periodic components. It can also be noted that this die is mostly the same as the LMC6044 except that the two ... http://microblog.routed.net/2008/06/13/ic-friday-national-semiconductors-lmc6042/ It looks like Siemens Energy and Automation has a has made their Seimens Technical Education Program (STEP!) courseware available (PDFs). Topic range from basic electronics, to motor control, to power distribution. What really caught my eye was the abundance of easily understandable safety information in the ... http://microblog.routed.net/2008/06/12/power-control-and-automation-courseware-from-siemens/ Apple has released the iPhone 2.0 at their world-wide developer conference touting new and improved data speeds via AT&T's 3G network. As a smartphone user on the Verizon network, I became curious to see how my data speeds compared. I accessed the mobile speed test at dslreports.com via my phone ... http://microblog.routed.net/2008/06/10/apple-has-released-the-3g-iphone/ As I had hoped, I finished the 100km charity ride this past Sunday in a little over four hours. The organizers did an excellent job providing refreshments and snacks and the track layout was pretty flat. Near the end of the ride, the sun was out and my bike computer ... http://microblog.routed.net/2008/06/10/tour-de-cure-dc-has-been-completed/