I'm using Doxygen to generate HTML documentation from my C# code. It recognizes the .NET XML-comments.

My introductory article on understanding counters/timers has been "published:" Back to the basics: Doing Hardware Counter/Timer design using High School Science

In the RSS feed, the editor summarizes it:Using the same unit-conversion techniques and dimensional analysis techniques learned in high school, Zane Purvis takes non-engineers and ( Read more... )

My digital camera recently ceased to function properly. * Unfortunately, it did so right before my trip to Cancun (I leave on Monday). Amazon had a 6 MP camera with waterproof housing on sale for $108. I figured I'd take a chance on it for my vacation. It arrived yesterday. I sent it back this morning. Read on for my thoughts on the Intova IC- ( Read more... )

I just wrote these because everyone has been having eMail problems lately. Some have been rather upsetting and dramatic, and others have just been annoyances. Hopefully, these rules will help everyone. Feel free to add more or let me know where I am way off-base. I know I've violated some of these rules and I apologize.

The numbers below do not ( Read more... )

Ubuntu doesn't include emacs in the default install.

vi is there, of course.

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As I was working on some routines & C preprocessor macros for dealing with fixed point numbers , I had the need to convert from one format to another. So, this is what I came up with initially:

b = fixed_10_6_to_10_22(a);

But, it's so long, and typing all those underscores is tedious. So, I think I'll use this instead:

b = f10621022(a);It's ( Read more... )

I have so many fonts on here... so many beautiful fonts.

Some fonts literally make me laugh out loud.

Some of them make me think of a particular person.

Some of them make me think of feminine hygiene products.

Some make me think of movies.

Why not edit code in OCR font? It kind of reminds me of The Matrix. And checkbooks ( Read more... )

The most insane thing about Emacs for me as been that by default, it mixes tabs and spaces. Why would anyone ever want that?

Add this to your ~/.emacs file (or ~/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs Emacs/Preferences.el of you're using Aquamacs) to make it never use tab characters:
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) ; no tabs, ever

I've been using ( Read more... )

Some things I intend to do over break:

Update LCD code from Renesas to support scrolling and full-screen bit-mapped graphics.
Determine exactly what I want the students to get out of Lab 2 and write it up.
Grade midterm exams.
Grade HW2.
Write detailed description of what I want from the grad student project.
Write a magazine article.
Go diving.
Run.
Ride ( Read more... )