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Hello {FIRST_NAME}, in this edition:
- FlowKit out now
- How to use FlowKit
- Linear frequency control
- FlowKit bundles
- How to use Flowcode and E-Blocks
- Your views count - now £150 in Matrix products for published articles and freelance engineers needed
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HP299 FlowKit - out now
We are pleased to announce that
the FlowKit in-circuit debug tool is now available.
FlowKit
allows users to analyse
and debug an active microcontroller application
by starting, stepping and playing a program in real time. It allows
users to see and alter variable values and can be used
with a wide range of hardware including
E-Blocks, MIAC, ECIO,
HP488 and Formula Flowcode.
FlowKit is designed to work with
Flowcode for PICmicro from version 4.2 and AVR from version 4.
Click
here to download the technical datasheet and see our website
for more details.
To take advantage, contact
your dealer.
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How to use the FlowKit in-circuit debugging tool
The FlowKit ICD tool is a great new way of debugging your Flowcode
V4 embedded programs.
In this
month's Knowledge Exchange
we provide a step-by-step guide
demonstrating the usage of the FlowKit ICD
functionality that is built into Flowcode version 4. Basically if
Flowcode v4 can target
the hardware then the FlowKit ICD tool can debug it.
Remember, this great ICD tool is built into our Mulitprogrammer V7 (click here for
details).
“FlowKit
allows the monitoring / updating of variables in real time which means that
communications from other systems such as ...” read more
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Get your perfect Flowkit bundle
In
addition
to the release of FlowKit, we have put together
new bundles to provide you with the complete programming and debugging
package.
HP288 - MIAC
and FlowKit bundle - click here
HP277ST4 -
Flowcode V4 for PICmicro and FlowKit bundle - click here
To take advantage, contact
your dealer.
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Linear frequency control
Most
microcontrollers provide facilities to allow linear control of time-based
operations. The inverse property of linear frequency control is not as widely
supported, and can be difficult to replicate using timer functions and
calculations. This Knowledge Exchange article
demonstrates the 'phase accumulator' method of linear frequency control using
facilities available in most microcontrollers.
The example
program uses an ADC channel, a timer interrupt, and phase accumulator code to
allow a 0V to 5V analogue input voltage (from a potentiometer or signal
generator) to provide linear speed control of a standard stepper motor.
“It
is relatively easy to provide linear control of the duration of a timed event
using most microcontrollers … linear control of frequency, f, can be more
complicated unless more specialized hardware is available … “ read more
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Flowcode 4.2 and an Introduction to microcontroller programming
Need help with developing
e-systems using Flowcode 4 and E-blocks? This CD ROM provides a complete
50 hour course in developing microcontroller based systems and contains
a suite of 13 labs, each of which has an accompanying Word worksheet.
For more information, click here.
Click
here to download a limited version.
Remember Flowcode
versions V4.2 or later now comes capable of generating
code that is compatible
with Microchip's HI-TECH C. Click here for full details. All Flowcode 4 users can download this update by clicking
here.
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