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News: Imagination, Microchip and Digilent deliver cutting-edge IoT curriculum for universities worldwide

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Imagination, Microchip and Digilent deliver cutting-edge IoT curriculum for universities worldwide Course helps students understand connected embedded systems from microcontroller to cloud LONDON, UK – April 19, 2016 – Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) and Microchip Technology, together with Digilent Inc. announce the Connected MCU Lab, a new course developed through the companies’ respective university programs. The semester-long curriculum, available to universities worldwide, is designed to be an introductory and first microcontroller (MCU) class taken by undergraduate electronic engineering and computer science students. It delivers an interactive and compelling start to connected embedded systems education – covering MCUs and input/output (I/O), real-time operating system concepts, advanced MIPS processor architecture and cloud connectivity – all presented in a fresh and jargon-free style.

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Procedure to manually install MPLAB X Plug-in

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This article provides the procedure to install MPLAB X plug-ins manually. Most of the plug-ins can be installed automatically from the Microchip update center. In some situations where computers are not connected to internet and there are firewall and security concerns. The plug-ins can be downloaded directly from http://embeddedcodesource.com/mplab_x and can be installed for use.

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Checksum in Brief

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Checksum is basically used to determine the data integrity whether it is data transferred from one system to other using some communication protocol or from hex file to microcontroller using a programmer. Refer Checksum Overview for more details.

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MPLAB SDK Discussion

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I have downloaded the latest MPLAB SDK on my computer. I am running Windows 7 with Java 1.6. ver 31 with NetBeans IDE 7.1. I have been able to run the MPLAB sample projects in Netbeans IDE. But I need to develop an automated framework using the sample projects(provided in the SDK) as a base, that should run without NetBeans IDE. The automated framework needs to be independent of the NetBeans IDE. Basically I should be able to take the generated JAR file that Netbeans create and use it outside the Netbeans. I generate the JAR file using the build option in the NetBeans IDE. What I am noticing is that running the JAR file from the command line (outside of Netbeans) does not work as expected. Some of the objects in the setDevice constructor are not set, for example, the call to assembly.getLookup().lookup(ControlPointMediator.class); returns null value. The class path is set in the Jar mansfest file. When running from the command line, all the needed libraries are available and java does NOT complain that library are missing. Please advice if there is a solution or advice for this issue.