12/21/2009:

Season's Greetings !

Only now once pause!
I wish all Merry Christmas and a happy New Year 2010.

11/28/2009:

Update of the RTOS kernel pC/OS

Through an extension in the optional function OS_TaskDestroy() in the new pC/OS kernel a mutex protected recourse can now be re-initialized, even if a user management included based on the unique task ID (for example a filesystem).

07/02/2009:

Update of the MMC/SD-port

A first update of the MMC/SD-port for SDXC cards. Furthermore, the error was finally corrected in the Nbs calculation plus Nac and Nbs fix for SDHC cards on the specified values.

04/19/2009:

new version of the RTOS kernel pC/OS

Using the optional function OS_TaskDestroy() in the new pC/OS kernel, Tasks, waiting on an IPC (semaphores/MBox/queue/pipe/..) or owner of a mutex, can now be canceled.
Furthermore, the source code was restructured without deteriorate the optimization of the different compilers.

02/18/2009:

SDXC cards with up to 2TB

The next generation of SD cards is comming - SDXC (eXtended Capacity).
With up to 2TB, accelerated interface and using exFAT as filesystem it remains now only wait and see whether the SPI-mode is still supported. The specification is still coming in this quarter of 2009.
First cards will be later this year with 64GB expected - for comparison - a dual-layer-BluRay-disc has a capacity of "only" 50GB.

02/15/2009:

new version of the RTOS kernel pC/OS

The debug stack-border check of the pC/OS kernel now includes a 0xEF stack-fill too, that makes the identification of the used-stack-deep easier when debugging.

01/20/2009:

small correction in MMC/SD-port

A small correction of the MMC/SD-port for HD-MMC cards. This cards will never to buy (see news 2008).

01/18/2009:

new version of the RTOS kernel pC/OS

The pC/OS kernel now includes optional a simple version of a debug stack-border check, on sheduling a stack-end mark of the previously active task is controlled. Furthermore, the kernel configuration was restructured.