On-Line C166 Technical Documents Produced By Hitex UK

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• Designing Your PCB For Use With An In-Circuit Emulator - There are a few things to bear in mind when designing a new C166 PCB that will make attaching and emulator a lot easier!
  
• Using A Commercial Microcontroller In High-Integrity Applications The UK’s large military and aerospace suppliers are being forced to look away from their traditional x86 and 68K CPUs to more advanced devices by the need to reduce costs and get higher performance in the new more commercial environment they find themselves in. This article examines the sort of questions that arise when the C167 is a candidate for such projects.
  
• C166 Family Applications Development And Debugging Guidelines For Project Managers - This document outlines common software development approaches and their individual benefits and pitfalls. This is essential reading for anybody about to manage or take part in a major C166 (or in fact any microcontroller) family project. It includes some real case studies from Hitex’s support archives which highlight specific points.
  
• Putting a C161 into an 8032 socket.....Quart Into A Pint Pot?
  
• Conventional Time-Domain Fuel Injection Control With The CAPCOM Unit - 12 cylinder sequential injector control with low CPU overhead.
  
• Using IDT71016 16-Bit RAMs With The C166 Family
  
• A Quick Guide To The Keil C166 Compiler's Global Register Optimisation Facility
  
• Handling Large Constant Data In The Keil C166 C Compiler
  
• Getting some extra near constants (NCONST) in Keil C166
  
• A simple encoder input for PID controllers on the C165's GPT1
  
• A simple PID (proportional integral derivative) controller for a DC motor using the C167
  
• How to buy essential emulation equipment without all that messing about with capital requisitions, management decisions, approvals... - Getting your project an emulator under the radar?
  
• Real Time Operating Systems For The C166 Family - What's available and from whom.
  
• Using The Keil uvision2 Embedded Development Environment - A brief guide to configuring uVISION with the C166 compiler.
  
• Control BASIC166 BASIC interpreter for the C166 family from Milspec Systems (UK).
  
• General information on C167 and 8051 development from MWTECH UK
  
• An Introduction To The C Language On The C166 Microcontroller Family (Keil C166) - it could change your life!
  
• Our Keil C166 Quality Management Report (PDF file) - essential reading for anybody working in an high-integrity field with the Keil compiler. Also available as a Word 97 .DOC file for customisation to your project. This should be of interest to anyone working in a medical or other high-integrity environment.
  
• Quality management report for the DPROBE167/DBOX167 in-circuit emulator system. This should be of interest to anyone working in a medical or other high-integrity environment.
  
• RISC Architectures For Embedded Applications - Some of the ideas behind the C166's novel core design.
  
• Getting New C16x Boards Going - Some hints and tips for commissioning your new C166 hardware design.
  
• Understanding The Data Page Pointers (DPPs) - Getting to grips with the 166's fast data access method.
  
• A Simple Software UART For The C167 CAPCOM Unit - How to convert two CAPCOM pins to produce an extra UART.
  
• Continuous Automatic Baud Rate Detection To 115.2kbaud - Using GPT1 to synchonise to a continuous high speed asynchronous
  data stream in a modem application. Try that on an 8051 or H8!
  
• C166 Family Socket Types - Which Yamaichi socket is used for each device.
  
• Making 32-Bit Period Measurements On The 166 Family CAPCOM Unit - A bullet-proof method for extending the CAPCOM unit to 32 bits.
  
• Tuning And Protecting The 166/7's Analog To Digital Convertor Inputs - Some things you may not know about the 167's clever 10-bit ADC.
  
• How to make use of the XRAM with the Keil and Tasking C166 compilers - what you will not find in the user manuals!
  
• Example program for the Infineon EASY161U and EASY165UTAH boards that includes FLASH programming.
  
• Migrating from the C167CS32-FM to the C167CS-LM
  
• Common tail merging optimisation in Keil C166
  
• Understanding the IPC field in the C167CS-LM's PCIR register
  
• A C function to perform in-system programming in the ST10F168
  
• Migrating to the XC16x series - what you need to know in one amazing document! Also, here is the official migration document from Infineon and one from Keil.
  
• C167 example programs to run on various development boards. Some of the above documents refer to software examples which you can obtain from here.
  
  You can find Infineon's own website here.