Author Archives: Dennis

Cypress GPIF waveform behavioral model

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Dennis

I sent an email to the fx2lib mailing list that I thought would make good information for a bigger audience. Eventually, I’ll probably provide a Verilog behavioral model for the GPIF on the Cy7C68013 (and variants), but for now, this … Continue reading →

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Java upload handler for YUI Image Uploader

Posted on February 16, 2009 by Dennis

Vijay Oruganty has been kind enough to provide a Java upload handler for the YUI Rich text image uploader. I’ve attached the Eclipse project here. Here is Vijay’s comments on the project: [the attached file] has the whole eclipse project … Continue reading →

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Quick SSH Tip

Posted on February 13, 2009 by Dennis

I’d wager many of you know this already. Having done this a couple times the last two days though, I thought I’d add it for those that don’t. Maybe it’s useful to someone. Problem: You want to log into a … Continue reading →

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The further declining value of Turbotax and Quicken

Posted on February 11, 2009 by Dennis

Last year I posted a rant on the declining value of Turbotax and Quicken. I just finished filing my taxes for the 2008 tax year and thought I’d write a quick follow up after sticking to my guns for the … Continue reading →

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fx2lib documentation and source download

Posted on February 4, 2009 by Dennis

I’ve uploaded documentation and a source download for fx2lib. Here is the copy of the Sourceforge announcement. The fx2lib sources are stable enough to build complete firmware implementations for the cypress fx/fx2 variants of the 8051 chipset. The current release … Continue reading →

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Converting financial CSV data to OFX or QIF import files

Posted on February 4, 2009 by Dennis

As a side project, I created a CSV to OFX converter that applies custom mappings to CSV data to export them to QIF or OFX files. This morning, I added the ability to override the built-in mappings with custom mappings … Continue reading →

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