hardware

I would like to create/start a simulator for the following microcontroller board: http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=707# The firmware is written in assembly so I'm looking for some pointers on how one would go about simulating the inputs that the hardware would receive and then the simulator would respond to the outputs from the firmware. (which would also require running the firmware in the simulated environment). Any pointers on how to start? Thanks Chris Alex Fort Writing a whole emulator is going to be a real challenge. I've attempted to write an ARM emulator

I am currently learning vulkan, right now I am just taking apart each command and inspecting the structures to try to understand what they mean. Right now I am analyzing QueueFamilies, for which I have the following code: vector<vk::QueueFamilyProperties> queue_families = device.getQueueFamilyProperties(); for(auto &q_family : queue_families) { cout << "Queue number: " + to_string(q_family.queueCount) << endl; cout << "Queue flags: " + to_string(q_family.queueFlags) << endl; } This produces this output: Queue number: 16 Queue flags: {Graphics | Compute | Transfer | SparseBinding} Queue number:

Short version How do I automate changing multiple display settings? NVIDIA, 3x monitors (2x DVI and 1x HDMI), GPU only supports 2 active monitors. Long version So I have a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti which can run two displays simultaneously. It has two DVI connections and one HDMI . I often swap from using my two desktop monitors and connect only one of the desktop monitors plus my TV using HDMI . I would like to automate the change back and forward using a batch script or other program instead of using the windows control panel (Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Display\Screen Resolution)

My application running on Mac OS X that needs to retrieve details about the machine it is running on to report for system information. One of the items I need is details about the processor(s) installed in the computer. My code currently works, but is far from an ideal solution, in fact I consider it a bad solution, but I have had no luck in finding a better one. The information I report currently and after some formatting looks like: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.1 GHz, Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6 All of the info I get is through command-line utilities called from a popen(). The readable

I was wondering if there is a way to make use of the new hardware based true number generator found in intel's sandy bridge CPU? I read that intel's MKL (Math Kernel Library) exposes this functionality, but this requires the MKL suite and an intel complier, ending up pretty expensive. Is there another way to employ the hardware random number generator in my C++ code? For example a nice, header only library? Intel has posted a manual, library, and code examples for the rdrand instruction at http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-digital-random-number-generator-drng-software

I have successfully implemented a video player using ffmpeg. I am now trying to use hardware decoding but I'm facing a couple issues. I found a post that I followed as a starting point here: https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/libav-user/2014-August/007323.html I have updated the code that setup the necessary stuff for the decoder. The updated code is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5ufHdoDzA4ieVk5UVpxcDNzRHc/view?usp=sharing And this is how I'm using it to initialize the decoder: // Prepare the decoding context AVCodec *codec = nullptr; _codecContext = _avFormatContext->streams[