Dev boards

Lauterbach debugger

I saw yesterday demo of Lauterbach debugger. It is a hardware based modular debugger that supports many processors. It is considered to be high-end debugger product for Embedded Linux debugging and is quite expensive. The company serves a niche-market of in-circuit emulators, especially on systems using JTAG, which it sells under the brand name TRACE32. →

Arduino for commercial products?

Is Arduino used in comercial applications you might ask. It is true that you aren’t going to go to your local big-box electronics store and find many (if any) products that have an “Arduino Inside” sticker, because  Arduino is a prototyping platform. Arduino is a widely seen as targeed to hobbyists, but I would say →

New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2

Raspberry Pi is an almost mythical cheap single board computer that has very many fans. When last year Raspberry Pi Foundation launch of the Raspberry Pi Model B+ as the final evolution of the original RPi board while still costing $35 USD, it was considered to be an improvement over original Raspberry Pi B model, →

FPGA boards under $100

Nowadays you can find many low-cost microcontroller devboards (starting from just few dollars/euros). More recently, we’ve seen ARM Cortex kits for $10-$50, the flowering of the whole Arduino ecosystem, and of course, the Raspberry Pi. It’s microcontroller heaven with very many dev boards available. You you want more performance, there is a wide selection of →

Arduino vs. Phidgets – Dev Time Trials

Is Arduino easy enough? Or would some other platform be more suitable? Arduino vs. Phidgets – Dev Time Trials article looks at the situation. Is developing on an Arduino too slow? Are Phidgets too expensive? When might you use one or the other? Article breaks down what he learned from three experimental time trials.   →