Author Archives: Lucio Di Jasio

Literally Bits

Posted on 7. April 2009 by Lucio Di Jasio

The new version of the MPLAB C32 (v1.05) compiler is out and is filled with new features and a new (as in additional) DSP library designed for compatibility with the dsPIC standard DSP lib. But for me the most exciting … Continue reading →

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Using the 32-bit Core Timer

Posted on 2. April 2009 by Lucio Di Jasio

One of the features of the PIC32 that I have so far somewhat left out in my “explorations” is the 32-bit Core Timer. This is in fact a piece of the MIPS M4K core itself and is common to all … Continue reading →

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Testing the PIC32 I/O Speed

Posted on 18. March 2009 by Lucio Di Jasio

In the last several months I have seen a couple of postings on the PIC32 forum about users testing the speed of the PIC32 I/O. It is quite normal and healthy for a community of Embedded Control designers to worry … Continue reading →

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UNISON – A POSIX compliant RTOS for the PIC32

Posted on 13. March 2009 by Lucio Di Jasio

Recently I get a lot of questions about Linux on the PIC32…. No, Linux is not available. The main problem is the lack of a true MMU (Memory Management Unit, the PIC32 has only an FMT, fixed mapping table), and … Continue reading →

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Tremor

Posted on 5. January 2009 by Lucio Di Jasio

The Xiph.Org Foundation offers an open source alternative to the omni-present MP3 audio compression: it is called Ogg Vorbis and promises same if not better performance but it is royalty-free and license free. From their web site, like in all … Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Posted on 27. December 2008 by Lucio Di Jasio

I guess we all wait for the Christmas holidays to recover from a long year of hard work, enjoy some more time with family and friends and prepare for the new year at the doors. As I am writing this, … Continue reading →

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Bending the laws of physics

Posted on 19. November 2008 by Lucio Di Jasio

As a reader pointed out today, when preparing one of the pictures in Chapter 3,  I did use a little trick, I had almost forgotten… I did reduce the DELAY constants by a factor of 100 to … speed things … Continue reading →

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Electronica 2008

Posted on 13. November 2008 by Lucio Di Jasio

This is the week of the Electronica 2008 in Munich (Germany) and I am available at the Microchip booth (A4-560) all week to talk about 16 and 32-bit programming but especially about flying! If you are a PIC24 or a … Continue reading →

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Deep Blue PIC32

Posted on 6. November 2008 by Lucio Di Jasio

An email from Tim O. this week made me think about the possibility of computers conversing with humans, or rather the impossibility of it, as Turing once proposed it as the ultimate test of the machine intelligence.  This in turn … Continue reading →

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MIPS DSP Libraries

Posted on 4. November 2008 by Lucio Di Jasio

With the latest release of MPLAB C32 compiler v.1.04, Microchip has added a complete set of DSP functions for the PIC32 to complement the standard math libraries. Among them you will find a number of vector processing functions and as … Continue reading →

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