Monthly Archives: July 2012

Designing, Simulating and Implementing a Simple Car Alarm on a Xilinx FPGA – Part I

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Tayeb

Objectives Design and simulate a simple car alarm on NI Multism 12.0 and implement on a Xilinx FPGA Spartan 3 Starter kit board from Digilent. This is a two parts post. In this part we will design a logic circuit … Continue reading →

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Temperature Measurement with PSoC CY8C27643 and DS18B20 sensor

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Tayeb

Objectives: To build a thermometer, with a Cypress PSoC chip CY8C27643 and 1-wire DS18B20 temperature sensor. Introduction PSoC (Programmable System-on-Chip) is a family of integrated circuits made by Cypress Semiconductor. These chips include a CPU and mixed-signal arrays of configurable … Continue reading →

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BlueTerm app for most Android devices

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Tayeb

Introduction Having “hacked” into BlueTerm source code to make it work with my HTC clone,  known as A3 Star (HD2 T8585 clone), I thought why not make the mod in order that BlueTerm will function in most Android devices with … Continue reading →

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Overcoming Android bluetooth “blues” with Reflection method

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Tayeb

Introduction It is an Android problem: bluetooth does not function in a satisfactory manner. Having recently  started to “hack” into Android devices, and learning while doing, I was immediately confronted with the real world of something that does not fully … Continue reading →

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