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bassman71

Jan 1, 1970
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Hello,
I'm a VB developer interested in designing my own programmable ICs.
What equipement will I need and where is the best place to start
looking?

Thanks............Bassman
 
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Anthony Fremont

Jan 1, 1970
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bassman71 said:
Hello,
I'm a VB developer interested in designing my own programmable ICs.

IC design? What exactly do you have in mind?
What equipement will I need and where is the best place to start
looking?

You will need a programmer to flash the chips (if you choose PICs). You
will also need some PICs. Outside of that, you will need the typical stuff
you need to tinker in electronics (parts, DMM, proto boards, etc). I use
the melabs usb programmer from www.melabs.com They also have development
boards available. www.microchip.com is the place to get info about PICs in
general (datasheets, development tools, sample parts).
 
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Donald

Jan 1, 1970
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bassman71 said:
Hello,
I'm a VB developer interested in designing my own programmable ICs.

Isn't it interesting what non-embedded people think we do ??

donald
 
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linnix

Jan 1, 1970
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Hello,
I'm a VB developer interested in designing my own programmable ICs.
What equipement will I need and where is the best place to start
looking?

Thanks............Bassman

You are not allowed to run VB on virtual machines. Programmable ICs
are virtual machines, thus prohibited by MS laws.
 
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petrus bitbyter

Jan 1, 1970
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bassman71 said:
Hello,
I'm a VB developer interested in designing my own programmable ICs.
What equipement will I need and where is the best place to start
looking?

Thanks............Bassman

Hmm... So want want to become a digital chip designer? I doubt your
experience in VB will be of much value. You will need a good insight in the
physics of semiconductors and even a better insight in logical design.
Programmable ICs are are a class in their own right. The equipment you need,
can be found in the labs of Intel, AMD, Xilinx and Lattice to name just a
few. I only guess its way beyond your budget. So may I ask: What do you
really want?

petrus bitbyter
 
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petrus bitbyter

Jan 1, 1970
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bassman71 said:
Hello,
I'm a VB developer interested in designing my own programmable ICs.
What equipement will I need and where is the best place to start
looking?

Thanks............Bassman

The thought occured to me that you may not want to design programmable ICs
but want to design something using programmable ICs. As you use PIC as an
example I will stick with it. First thing I advise, read:
http://www.voti.nl/swp/n_index.html
which IMHO is a good intro.
When you're through it, you will have some idea already. Besides, you will
find all the information you need to make a PIC blink a LED. Which is
considered the "Hello world" of PIC programming. I think you can do with
this for the moment.(But if you have questions, come again. Someone here
might know the answers.)

petrus bitbyter
 
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bassman71

Jan 1, 1970
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Hmm... So want want to become a digital chip designer? I doubt your
experience in VB will be of much value. You will need a good insight in the
physics of semiconductors and even a better insight in logical design.
Programmable ICs are are a class in their own right. The equipment you need,
can be found in the labs of Intel, AMD, Xilinx and Lattice to name just a
few. I only guess its way beyond your budget. So may I ask: What do you
really want?

petrus bitbyter

Thanks for the info, what I'm trying to do is replicate my garage door
remote.
 
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petrus bitbyter

Jan 1, 1970
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bassman71 said:
Thanks for the info, what I'm trying to do is replicate my garage door
remote.

So you'll have to gather information about this particular remote. This
things can be really complicated these days. Have a look at:
http://focus.ti.com/lit/ds/slws011d/slws011d.pdf
for instance.
Once you know what chip(set) is used in your remote, you may be able to
decide whether or not you can duplicate it by using the original chip(s).

Microchip sells some PICs with build in RF but of course I don't know if
they cover the frequency range you need and/or if they're powerfull enough
to emulate the chip in your remote. On the other hand, Microchip has it's
own chips that can be used for remote openers, maybe even in your one.
You'll have to dig pretty deep into the bits before you can start some
design. Programming is only the last step.

petrus bitbyter
 
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