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Why?
Apr 1, 2015 10:44:03 GMT
Post by mjb on Apr 1, 2015 10:44:03 GMT
The idea behind this.
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Why?
Apr 1, 2015 10:44:19 GMT
Post by mjb on Apr 1, 2015 10:44:19 GMT
The idea for this project was prompted by a work-experience student (Mr. Sam McCumiskey) complaining that the standard 8-bit AVR-based Arduino was not fast enough for what he wanted to do. In the best British traditions of putting huge engines in small sports cars (e.g. AC Cobra, TVR Griffith), we decided to drop an Aurix TC275 onto the Arduino Dueform factor on the basis that a triple 32-bit cored 200MHz microcontroller should keep even the most ambitious studenthappy for a while at least.
Perhaps the most interesting part of this unofficial project was the porting of the Arduino Processing language to the Aurix. The C++-based Processing language uses simple IO functions to allow the CPU peripherals to be accessed. These have been attached to the Infineon iLLD library set. The net result is that users can get access to the TC275 peripherals in a limited way without having any knowledge of the Aurix itself. In fact for trying out ideas, this is in some ways an advantage as learning the bits and bytes of a possibly unfamiliar microcontroller does not get in way of experimentation.
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