The circuit of AVR In-System-Programmer (ISP) has been modified to function with USB connection to a PC. The modification of the old AVR ISP includes the replacement of two transistors which will be ...

[Hans Peter] wanted to move away from using full Arduino boards in his projects. One of the components he rarely used after the development stage is the USB hardware. Once the firmware is flashed to ...

Ernest Bron of National Semiconductor describes how Flash-based microcontrollers can be programmed in-circuit without being restricted by the speed of the PC used for control. The current canonical ...

[Matt Evans] was running up against the common programming gotcha caused by disappearing parallel ports. For years he had used a JTAG parallel cable when working with FPGAs but recently realized he no ...

Some time ago, ZDNet’s George Ou wrote an innovative article for TechRepublic about using USB flash drives or compact flash (CF) cards to upgrade a router. This week, I want to take that article a ...