Hi, I am a software development guy. Oflate I was thinking of trying out some firmware development, as the company I work for is trying to enter that domain. I have many questions regarding firmware devlopment - like 1. What are the tools used - like IDE? 2. In which language is most of the code written in? 3. How to port the code int...
In the world of embedded software (firmware) it is fairly common to observe the order of events, take timings and optimise a program by getting it to waggle PIO lines and capturing their behavior on an oscilloscope. In days gone by it was possible to toggle pins on the serial and parallel ports to achieve much the same thing on PC-based...
I'd like to get a cell phone to play around a bit with firmware programming. That's a totally new field for me. Is it possible to change the original phone's firmware for a custom one? Any pointers on how to do that? Also, which cell phone model would you recommend? I'm not totally interested (at the moment) in keeping call functional...
Hi, It's my first question here and hopefully someone can help me out of this. MANY THANKS IN ADVANCE. We are working on a storage device that will appear to a PC as a CDROM, based on the USB connection. A SCSI firmware layer is implemented as the protocol used for data exchange and communication. So from the PC point of view the devic...