Monday, June 22, 2015

The BQ4845 RTC

The simplest external device I could see for my first attempt at a peripheral was the TI BQ4845 RTC. It's a DIP package and works like an SRAM, can have a 32,768Hz crystal attached directly to it, and has a simple interface for connecting and programming.

Monday, June 15, 2015

An expansion header board for the CPUville kit

With the C compiler working it was time to get back to the hardware and make it possible to experiment with new devices.