Microsoft Windows is a a popular operating system developed and sold by Microsoft Corporation. Questions should relate to specific issues interfacing electronic systems to that particular operating system.
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Comparison Between SPICE Simulators
I've recently realized that I can't do everything easily in ngspice, mainly because analysis has to be performed through the interpreter. I'm considering switching to a new SPICE simulator.
I'd like ...
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Hyper terminal equivalent in windows 8
I need to do some communication between 8051 micro-controller and PC . There used to be a hyper terminal for this purpose in windows XP. I m using windows 8 now. So can anyone suggest me some ...
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Bandpass filter to isolate musical note “A2”
I would like to design a bandpass filter to isolate the musical note A2 ( 110Hz ) from its neighboring notes at a precision of a half-step. This means that ...
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Running AVRStudio 32 and JTAGICE MKII on Vista 64
I've attempted installation of AVR studio 32 (for AVR32 UC3 development) and it doesn't appear to work.
Has anyone here gotten this to work in Vista 64?
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What is the simplest way to interact with an I2C peripheral?
I have an I2C peripheral that I need to interact with using a Windows 7 PC. The interaction could be through a terminal emulator, or any program that can produce a real-time log that I can process ...
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capture raw data in COM port
I have a Bluetooth transmitting device and my PC (Windows 7) is connected to it and configured as if it was connected through a RS232 serial port (COM4). How can I capture the raw data transmitted by ...
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Device Cannot Start on AVRISP mkII + AVR Studio 4.19 730 Parallels 7 + Windows 7 64
I'm looking for guidance on establishing a connection to an AVRISP mkII programmer via OS X.
Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac Build 7.0 14920
Windows 7 64-bit
AVR Studio 4.19 730
After AVR Studio is ...
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Streaming a section of video to an external display
I want to be able to connect an external display to my Windows PC (in addition to the existing one), and stream a selected portion of the screen to this display. For example, if I have a small ...
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How to setup a development network for the ENC28J60 on XP?
I'm working on an ethernet connection with the ENC28J60. During development, I'd like to connect the chip to my computer directly (i.e. not via a gateway). This ...
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Different behavior of FTDI USB RS485 on different computers
I use a FTDI USB-RS485 adapter cable to connect a RS-485 device to a computer.
The communication is fairly simple, the computer sends periodic requests, the device answers them.
On one computer ...
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Not getting any reading from FTDI UMFT201XB USB-to-I2C module
I got the FTDI UMFT201XB USB-to-I2C module in order to interface with an I2C peripheral through a USB port on my Windows 7 computer.
The VCP drivers seem to install correctly, and a COM port is ...
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Arduino and Windows 7
I have problems with Arduino Mega drivers on Windows 7.
I've downloaded newest driver from http://www.ftdichip.com/FTDrivers.htm, but i cant install driver.
I've installed USB Serial Converted, ...
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ARM LPC2148 Bootloader filesystem problems
I installed Keil's LPC2148 bootloader on my ARM board and as indicated in the docs my PC is able to identify it as a mass storage device. However, the bootloader uses FAT16 filesystem which is ...
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What kind of computer do I use to program an atmega?
What kind of computer (Mac OS X, Ubuntu linux, or Windows) Would I need to compile an program/operating system for an atmega microcontroller? I want the microcontroller to be stand alone at some point ...
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Arduino Leonardo doesn't get auto-detected in Windows 7 (64bit)
I recently purchased an Arduino Leonardo to control my Sumo robot. I plugged it in to my friends computer and was able to use the Arduino IDE to upload code to the board and run a simple wheel-test ...
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How does the Processor unit identify if the decoded instructions when it wants the next instruction?
I have read that to avoid cache misses, a lot of instructions are fetched together and decoded and kept in the cache, as it is mostly the case the instructions near the REQUESTED INSTRUCTION will be ...
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How to make Quartus II find the Altera DE2 board?
I use Quartus II web edition and using that driver my computer can find the card:
And the card appears in the device manager so it indeed looks correct so far.
But when I start Quartus ...
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Looking for easy USB Sound Card Chipset [closed]
Does anyone recommend a chipset for a USB Sound Card (w/input), with readily available drivers for both linux and windows.
I am making a phone line tap to record dial modem calls in the field, for ...
