Mixing C and Assembly on CC-RX Compiler
Some weeks ago, Sérgio Prado started a challenge on his blog: to code a sorting routine for the Renesas RX MCU using Assembly language. The …
Category: Microcontrollers
Microcontroller programming
A review on my book Microcontrolador PIC18 Detalhado
Hello guys, My friend Daniel Alcântara and later Wagner Rambo himself told me about a new video posted on Wagner’s Youtube channel with a review …
RX111 Starter Kit – Kit and the Renesas RX100 product line Overview
In this article I evaluate the RX111 Starter Kit (thanks to André Oliveira from Renesas) and also give you an overview of the Renesas RX100 product …
ULWOS – Multitasking on Renesas RL78
Have you ever wondered about running multiple tasks at a time on a simple microcontroller? In this article I show you that writing a small and simple …
RL78’s Inline Assembly on GCC
Hello! Some time ago I decided to port my small operating system (if it can be considered an operating system) ULWOS to the RL78 platform using …
ULWOS a small and simple preemptive multitasking operating system for the RL78
Hello folks, What about using a small and simple multitasking operating system on the RL78? And what about having a preemptive round-robin task scheduler? In …
Ultrasonic distance measurement with RL78 and HC-SR04 module
Hello folks! Today I would like to show you a simple project for ultrasonic distance measurement using the RL78 and a HC-SR04 ultrasonic ranging module. The …
Temperature measurement with the RL78
Hello, today I will show you how to make use of the internal temperature sensor, internal voltage reference and the Analog-to-Digital Converter on the RL78/G13 …
ARM / HCS08 / Microcontrollers / MSP430 / PIC
C code optimization for Embedded Systems
This is a video from my presentation at the 2008 C&C++ Embedded Systems Conference held in São Paulo (portuguese video)!
A useful hint when using the FSL library and in-circuit debugging on the RL78
Hello folks! Sometime ago, when I started playing around with the RL78 debugger I found a strange issue: I had an application that was writing on …
Using CCP module’s compare mode on PIC18
On this article I talk about the compare mode available on the CCP units of every PIC18. The compare mode works almost the same way …
A simple RL78 ADC usage example
In this article I show you a simple example of how to use the 10-bit ADC of the RL78. The ADC found in the RL78 …