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I am Dr. Pj Radcliffe,  a development engineer and researcher,  also a senior lecturer at RMIT University in  Melbourne Australia.  I have quite a few interests,  which keep me very busy-

  • Linux, particularly for the control of hardware.
  • Microprocessors, both hardware design and programming.
  • Software Engineering.
  • Network engineering,  especially protocol design.
  • Educational research, especially that related to plagiarism.
  • Teaching and managing research students.
  • Organizational behavior,  business re-engineering and process optimization.

What’s In This Blog?

This blog has a whole range of resources for people interested in the topics above.  See the pages to the left for the current topics.

New Content

29/6/2012 new microprocessor formulas:  the Open-USB-IO board has been working well for years.  We have finally got some more Microprocessor Formulas nearly ready.  Keep your eye on this page.

21/6/2010 for Open-USB-IO : some Windows 7 users have reported problems with the Open-USB-IO firmware, the device simply did not get recognized by the operating system.  We have tracked this to timing oddities in the way Windows 7 treats USB devices.  The resources section has firmware upgrade and a version of Co-USB for Windows 7.

20/4/2010 for Open-USB-IO : most software and manuals have been significantly updated.

  • New USB bootloader  so ATMEGA32 programming can be done from the USB cable.
  • Co-USB concept allows you to easily add your ATMGEA32 code to the USB interface code.
  • Powerful symbolic debugger for your ATMEGA32 code.
  • Mac version of software.

20/4/2010 for Open-USB-IO : most software and manuals have been significantly updated.

  • New USB bootloader  so ATMEGA32 programming can be done from the USB cable.