[time-nuts] 5370 firmware hacking status report

[Bob Camp]

Hi

I would check that things like Win 7 64 bit are happy with the USB stack on the micro. I'm not selling anybody MS stuff, but it limits your audiance if  there's a compatibility  issue. Some USB stacks are a lot better than others (both embedded and at the OS level). Ethernet is going to be functional on any modern OS. 

Lots of variables...

Bob


On Jul 24, 2011, at 4:30 PM, John Seamons wrote:

> On Jul 24, 2011, at 11:18 AM, paul swed wrote:
> 
>> Took a look at your setup and bench. So the support for the 5370 in a HP
>> vector network analyzer. Now thats some support. :-) I might tend to have
>> the two flipped in the stack.
>> So you are suggesting the potential to make this operational to a wider
>> audience. Any thoughts on a timeline? I personally have no problems
>> soldering in 40-60 wires from a daughter board as an example.
> 
> 4396A NSA: I should have been more clear about that. I only use that box as a programmable HPIB master for testing. Nothing more. I really need to get a PCI or USB GPIB interface like everyone else. Anyone running John's GPIB Toolkit under Wine on Ubuntu? </insert Windows rant>
> 
> Rather than trying to replicate my painful development setup we really just need to get a proper board made. That Atmel eval kit alone is $200. The board needs a boot loader that lets you re-flash over the network (instead of spending money on a JTAG dongle or using the awful Atmel USB flasher). Has anyone used KiCAD for pcb layout? Also, I don't know anything about USB, so I could use some help. Atmel has an existing stack for the micro. Big advantages over using Ethernet if you don't already have a network setup.
> 
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