Hardware

Understanding SD, SDIO and MMC Interface

Udit kumar agarwal / March 17, 2018

  TL;DR; MMC and SD-card have the same physical and electrical specifications but different software controls. They both are used as a storage device only. SDIO and SD-Combo cards, on the other hand, incorporate Input/Output functionality(like Bluetooth, Wifi, GPS, etc) without and with the storage facility respectively. So, a SD-Combo card can act as a wifi adapter along with a storage device. In this blog post, I will present a gist of the paper http://www.kaltech.co.il/pdf/Eureka_sd_wp1.pdf  (updated link). This is meant for anyone willing to understand how removable devices like sd card work and different protocols/functionalities they support. Secure Digital (SD)…

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Hardware, RTEMS, RTOS, Software

Building and testing RTEMS-libbsd for BeagleBone Black BSP

Udit kumar agarwal / March 10, 2018

———————————————————————— Building and testing libbsd for BeagleBone Black BSP ———————————————————————— == Installation overview == === Initial setup === – Jump into your workspace and make a directory named sandbox This folder will contain all our project files – cd sandbox/ – export sandbox=$PWD – git clone git://git.rtems.org/rtems-source-builder.git – git clone git://git.rtems.org/rtems.git – git clone git://git.rtems.org/rtems-libbsd.git === Building desired toolset for ARM === – cd rtems-source-builder/rtems/ – ../source-builder/sb-check – ../source-builder/sb-set-builder –prefix=$sandbox/5 5/rtems-arm – cd $sandbox – export PATH=$PWD/5/bin:$PATH After having required toolchain, we can now proceed towards building our Board Support Package(BSP) === Building Beagleboneblack BSP === – cd $sandbox –…

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Software, Webpage

Semi dynamic webpage template

Udit kumar agarwal / October 30, 2017

    Semi dynamic webpage template with Google sheets integration INDEX Introduction Purpose Behind Proposed Work Experimental Results Conclusion References     Introduction   Our project aims at providing a semi-dynamic template of a fully fledged highly responsive webpage for small scale organizational usage. With improved security considerations and better organization this project integrates google sheets services as a database for a website. Google sheets being easy to deploy and use makes content updation easier and a lot more user friendly. Several other functionalities like Google scripting engine along with google forms can be very easily integrated with google sheets…

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Hardware, Software

Introduction to RF communication

Udit kumar agarwal / October 15, 2017

This post introduces the basics of RF communication along with various band specifications used for wireless communication. It also covers comparison of  different bands on basis of their data rates and other parameters. Content Introduction Available frequency Bands Types of RF communication Different wireless protocols Introduction Now a days, we are surrounded by a large number of wireless devices working on different protocols, on different frequency bands thus utilizing almost whole of the “Radio-wave” frequency spectrum. Adhering to it’s high density, complete frequency spectrum can be divided into different groups and each group can be further divided into different channels.…

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ARM, Software

DECODING ARM

Udit kumar agarwal / October 3, 2017

This introductory post aims at discussing a bit about business model of ARM ltd.(that’s right the company behind ARM architectures!!), different ARM architectures for different utilities and most importantly a brief about ARM cortex M , ARM cortex R and ARM cortex A. So, here’s the content: Business model of ARM ltd. ARM Terminology Different ARM Architectures and Families Third party ARM variants ARM cortex M ARM cortex R ARM cortex A ARM Ltd. ARM ltd. was founded late in 1990’s as a joint venture between Acorn computers , Apple computers(Apple Inc.) and VLSI technology Inc. ARM joint venture With…

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ARM, Software

ARM Instruction Set(Part 2): Types,Operands and Addressing Modes

Udit kumar agarwal / September 24, 2017

Types,Operands and  Addressing Modes After a brief introduction of ISA, here in this part of the series we’ll look at: Content:   Types of Operands  Instruction set design Types of Instructions Types of Addressing modes Types of Operands: Operands basically refer to the type of parameter which is passed on to, along with an instruction. It might be a : Register/Memory address Constant/Immediate Consider the following examples: ADD r1,r2,r3;      will add r2 and r3 and store it’s value in r1 Here, Operands is r1,r2 and r3. ALL of which are registers. ARM has in general 16 general purpose registers…

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Hardware

DC motor selection for robotic applications

Udit kumar agarwal / September 22, 2017

This post is mainly contributed by the members of the electrical team of ARES robotics. For designing a rover prototype, we have to select motors for applications like Robotic arm, wheels, etc.  This post aims to be a single guide containing all the information required for someone to choose an engine for an application. I’ll try not to cover motor constructional details, but rather their types, advantages, and application areas.   Type of DC electric motors used in robotic : Servo Stepper Brush-less DC Brushed DC Geared DC DC linear actuators Servo motors It is a self-contained electrical device that…

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ARM, Software

DIY: Generating Ramp/Sawtooth from PWM

Udit kumar agarwal / September 3, 2017

DIY: Generating Ramp/Sawtooth from a PWM signal Lack of any good tutorial to produce a ramp/sawtooth wave from a PWM signal urged me to make one! This post was a part of one of my recent ongoing projects, i.e., Redesigning the Semiconductor CURVE TRACER, here at CEDT, NSIT. I was to produce a sawtooth wave from a PWM signal using Arduino nano, and here are my observations: TASK:  To produce a sawtooth wave from the PWM signal using Arduino Nano. PROCEDURE: Producing a ramp/sawtooth wave out of a PWM signal merely involves passing a PWM signal of varying duty cycle through…

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ARM, Software

ARM Instruction Set(Part 1): Initialization

Udit kumar agarwal / August 15, 2017

INTRODUCTION TO INSTRUCTION SETS I recently brought the ARM edition of the book Computer Organization and Design by Patterson and Hennessy from library. Half way through the book, I thought of sharing the content of this book in a more elaborated manner by making a series of tutorials on Arm Instruction Set.So, here’s part one of the series. Content Basic definitions Types of Instruction sets Architecture(ISA) General purpose register architecture Stack architecture Accumulator architecture Basic Definitions   Benchmarks:  A program selected for use in comparing computer performance.SPEC(System Performance Evaluation Cooperative) is such an effort supported by a number of vendors…

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Hardware, Software

Introduction to FRDM KL46Z and KDS

Udit kumar agarwal / August 13, 2017

Outdated post alert: Sorry, this post is no longer being maintained. If you are loooking for some sample code for FRDM KL46Z visit: https://github.com/madaari/FRDM-KL46Z-developnment-board Year ago, i wrote a tutorial on getting started with freescale’s FRDM KL46Z development board. since then it was just a draft, today, i thought of updating and releasing it. So, here it is: But first of all, a very brief introduction of the development board and OpenSDA FRDM KL46Z Features MKL46Z256VLL4MCU – 48 MHz, 256 KB flash, 32 KB SRAM, segment LCD, USB OTG (FS) , 100 LQFP Capacitive touch slider, MMA8451Q accelerometer, MAG3110 magnetometer…

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