While searching for a chip for the previously described Stratavariant Project, I kept coming across “ARM” processors. It has been many years since I’ve looked at chip architectures and I wondered what “ARM” was all about. Wikipedia quickly explained that “ARM” stands for “Advanced RISC Machine”, previously known at the “Acorn”. Back in the early 1980’s, when I started as a Group Leader at Sohio’s Warrensville Research Center, one of my duties was to be Sohio’s … [Read more...]
October 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
O’Reilly Webcast: Making Arduino Controlled Robots
I just signed up for the O'Reilly Webcast: Making Arduino Controlled Robots. This webcast is on October 30, 2012 at 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET. Building a robot and enabling it to sense its environment is a wonderful way to apply your Arduino knowledge to the real world. This webcast introduces Arduino techniques for controlling wheeled robots that can move around and use sensors to see and explore their environment. The webcast will cover: - Why a robot is great choice for your next … [Read more...]
August 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Firmware Store
Added a form and page to gather up members interested in designing and selling firmware. … [Read more...]
August 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Firmware for Sale
USA Firmware has been approached by a very well known company to develop firmware products to be sold online. These products could include drivers for peripherals and hardware, industry specific applications, RTOS integration, and so on. If you are interested in this subscribe to this topic and send me a PM. I'll try to keep you all aware of our progress on this page. … [Read more...]
August 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Can we rely on airbags and dismiss driving lessons?
The power of tests techniques and methodologies is increasing in the last decade. Several approaches can be used right now to avoid error propagation in the delivered product and to maximize the utilization of the resources in the most needed points, like, performance tests, regression test selection, black and white box, just to cite a few. On the other hand, people related to the early phases of development process feels more confident in not apply the good practices or the (correct) … [Read more...]
August 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Software PE Exam Help
We are trying to get our hands around the Software Engineering PE Exam so that we as a community can have information on the site such as who to contact, what to study, and what reference materials that can help. If you find something from your own research please share it here. You will see on the site, under CALL TO ACTION that we are building content for each of the testing sections. So far all we have are some general comments for each section and subsection. These links will be open … [Read more...]
August 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Professional Software Exam Help
As you may know, IEEE is strongly advising that all four-year degreed engineers take a test for certification. Apparently, each state has different rules and agendas. USA Firmware is currently researching the initiative and will provide more detailed information as we learn it. We also know that a sample examination will be available October 2012. To date, we are not sure of the content or what areas of study will be on the eight-hour test. Stay tuned for upcoming details. In addition, … [Read more...]