From the MIDIBOX description of the MIOS core:
The SRIO handler requires just only 75 uS to fetch the data from 128 digital input pins and to write out data to 128 digital output pins.
What this means is that he’s reading 128bits (from 16 74HC165 shift registers, all connected serially, IIRC) AND writing 128 Bits (into [...]
In my diploma thesis in 2002 I had to program a firmware for, let’s say a prepaid solar charger (sounds strange, but that was the idea). It was based on an MSP430 by TI, which is a very cool, ultra low power microcontroller. The problem was, that we had so many things to do with [...]
Hm, quite a cool idea: start all blog posts with a name of a former music-hardware-vendor :)
Anyway, while waiting for the LCD display which finally arrived on sunday (well, it arrived on saturday, but we didn’t pick up the notice that it’s been delivered to our neighbour, so I only fetched it on sunday, but [...]
Yes yes. As announced on gbadev, OSCpad just became at least partly usable. It has no means of configuring a target address which means that you’ll have to edit the source code to configure it, but I’m working on that :)
Git it here or go to the OSCpad page for more information.
