microcontroller

Can java programming be used in micro-controller programming like C and C++? If yes what are the requirement for it? What about in PIC16 and PIC32 series micro controller? Any Possibility for them. I could not find much more information about it in the web too.I appreciate your help. Cheers!!! Clifford To run Java on any platform you will need a Java Virtual Machine (JVM). I would not hold out too much hope for PIC16 due to the memory resources required and perhaps the performance. If you want the highest performance and smallest footprint then C or C++ are a better (and most usual) solution

In my work I deal with different micro-controllers, micro-processors and DSP processors. Many of them have 24-bits registers and counters. I know how to use them, this is not my question. My question is why do they have 24-bits register! why not make it 32 bit? and as I know, it is not a problem of size, because the registers are already 32bits, but have maximum of 0xFFFFFF. Do this provide easier HW implementation? Faster calculations? Or it is just "hmmm, lets put 24-bits registers to make the job of programmers more hard"? My guess is that most DSP applications simply don't need 32-bits.

I'm looking for examples, tutorials, or just "this+this+this should work" for reading from and writing to a SQL server (2008) from a microcontroller such as the Arduino board. I've also looked at (and will probably go with) devices with the .Net Micro Framework such as the Fez Cobra . The Micro Framework does not include ADO. I'm sure this is going to involve some XML, but I can't figure out which technology to further investigate. I do not want to have an PC application to serve as a go-between. Thanks! Honestly, I would make a thin service that would sit in-front of your database and use

I have some firmware built with GCC that runs on an ARM Cortex M0 based microcontroller. The build currently generates a single binary image that can be written into the program memory of the microcontroller. For reasons to do with field update, I need to split this image into two parts that can be updated separately. I'll call these Core and App . Core : contains the interrupt vector table, main() routine, and various drivers and library routines. It will be located in the first half of the program memory. App : contains application-specific code. It will be located in the second half of the