New bootloader, Win32 support

Although there was a preliminary programmer for win32, I only recently realised that win32 does not actually support natively serial speeds above 256Kbaud. This stroke me as very odd, we're on the 21th century now, with advent of serial links not rs232-based (like USB serial controllers) having speeds of 1Mbaud, 3Mbaud or even higher is very common, it's weird why Microsoft did not expand its baudrate selection to higher speeds.

Anyway.

So to support win32, we've to get that speed down, so I decided on a two-steps approach. We can initially talk to ZPUino at a reasonably lower speed (115200), and then depending on OS and eventually board features rise this speed to something more acceptable (which would be 1/3Mbaud on Unices, 256Kbaud on Windows). This requires changes to bootloader and to programmer which I am ultimating as I write.

Also for win32 support we need the compilers. Those are building now, if everything goes well I hope full win32 support will be on next Alpha version (which, by the way, will be due this weekend). The programmer already has a fix for the insane command line processing in mingw32 (or is it msvc?), so everything seems to be on rails.

Alvie

Alpha2 is out

ZPUino Alpha 2 is out.

http://alvie.com/zpuino/download.html

Release notes:

http://alvie.com/zpuino/releasenotes.html

Alvie

Almost Alpha2

I'm planning to launch Alpha2 this weekend, stay tuned.

Alvaro

Delays

As you all noticed, Alpha 2 is a bit delayed. This is due to several reasons:

1) I'm integrating a new UART, because current one performs not very well at high bit rates.
2) ADC direct interface took some time, it's stabilizing now.
3) Some more unplanned changes are coming in, like CRC queuing.
4) A faster ZPUino is also on the forge. Some operations are important, and I'd like to merge them in for alpha 2.
5) Documentation is laggin behind because I don't have much spare time lately.

So, stay tuned.
Alvie

Website down

Website http://www.alvie.com/zpuino is currently down due to hardware problems in my hosting company, Awardspace.

I hope they'll fix problems quickly.

Alvie

Internet Explorer fixes

Seems Internet Explorer users were not even able to access the website.

Fixed now, but I lost ability to inline mathematical functions, so now I have to render them by "hand".

Alvie

ZPUino Alpha 1 is out. And its website too.

I'm proud to announce the first ZPUino release (Alpha 1). This release is aimed at developers and not yet for general use. There is still a lot of documentation missing, as well as build instructions for all the components.

Also a new website is up for ZPUino at http://www.alvie.com/zpuino, where all information for this release can be found. You will find there also contact information to report bugs, post fixes and request features.

So, I wish you all a happy new year!

Álvaro