Archive for December, 2006

Ease H-Bridge on MOSFET IRF7105 transistors

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

I think I don’t have to explain what is H-Bridge circuit. Well it is mainly used to drive DC motors that they could be run forward and backwards. Circuit often used in robotics.
Usually there is a need to build small powerful and with good characteristics H-Bridge. One solution is to use IRF7105 p and n [...]

More about microcontroller oscillators

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

Choice of the microcontroller oscillator depends on many factors. Before choosing one you should consider: Cost, accuracy and environmental parameters. Clock sources can be grouped in two major groups: based on mechanical resonance(crystals and ceramic resonators) and RC (resistor, capacitor) oscillators.
Most popular form of mechanical resonant generators in microcontrollers are Pierce oscillators:

Ceramic and crystal based [...]

Armega128 bootloader using windows hyper terminal

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

If you are windows user, there is an easiest solution to program Atmega128 microcontrollers. In http://piconomic.co.za there is nice bootloader binary you can download and use for personal purposes.
First of all you will need to upload bootloader hex file (which is packed in) to Atmega128 and properly program fuses. For my Piconomic board I set [...]