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Questions tagged [windows]

Microsoft Windows is a popular operating system developed and sold by Microsoft Corporation. Questions should relate to specific issues interfacing electronic systems to that particular operating system; questions about Windows itself and everyday Windows software are entirely off-topic here.

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Comparison Between SPICE Simulators

I've recently realized that I can't do everything easily in ngspice, mainly because analysis has to be performed through the interpreter. I'm considering switching to a new SPICE simulator. I'd like a list the advantages and disadvantages of the…
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How does Windows know it's on battery power?

Laptop DC-DC regulator boards are somehow able to communicate with Windows to see how much battery power is left, but my research finds nothing. Is there a data connection from the proprietary motherboards found in laptops which communicates this?…
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Hyper terminal equivalent in windows 8

I need to do some communication between 8051 micro-controller and PC . There used to be a hyper terminal for this purpose in windows XP. I m using windows 8 now. So can anyone suggest me some equivalent of hyper terminal in windows 8 for the…
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capture raw data in COM port

I have a Bluetooth transmitting device and my PC (Windows 7) is connected to it and configured as if it was connected through a RS232 serial port (COM4). How can I capture the raw data transmitted by the Bluetooth device, or, equivalently, the raw…
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What is the simplest way to interact with an I2C peripheral?

I have an I2C peripheral that I need to interact with using a Windows 7 PC. The interaction could be through a terminal emulator, or any program that can produce a real-time log that I can process using a scripting language. Based on your…
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Bandpass filter to isolate musical note "A2"

I would like to design a bandpass filter to isolate the musical note A2 ( 110Hz ) from its neighboring notes at a precision of a half-step. This means that G2# = 103.83Hz and A2# = 116.54Hz should be in the stop band. In the ideal case, 110Hz would…
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Different behavior of FTDI USB RS485 on different computers

I use a FTDI USB-RS485 adapter cable to connect a RS-485 device to a computer. The communication is fairly simple, the computer sends periodic requests, the device answers them. On one computer (Dell laptop, Win XP) this works as expected, but with…
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Arduino Leonardo doesn't get auto-detected in Windows 7 (64bit)

I recently purchased an Arduino Leonardo to control my Sumo robot. I plugged it in to my friends computer and was able to use the Arduino IDE to upload code to the board and run a simple wheel-test program. When I got home and sat down to play…
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Running AVRStudio 32 and JTAGICE MKII on Vista 64

I've attempted installation of AVR studio 32 (for AVR32 UC3 development) and it doesn't appear to work. Has anyone here gotten this to work in Vista 64?
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STM32F0 USB device - unexpected Device_Qualifier descriptor request

Edit I may not have asked the correct questions here. Please do not attempt to answer before I edit again to remove this message. Summary I'm developing firmware for a USB device, and I can't get it through the enumeration process. My intent is to…
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Custom USB Gamepad Working But Not Detected In-Game

I've created a custom HID gamepad using an STM32L151C8T6 (probably irrelevant) and my computer recognizes the device using the gamepad tester application built into Windows 10. I can verify the functionality by moving the joystick around and…
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Device Cannot Start on AVRISP mkII + AVR Studio 4.19 730 Parallels 7 + Windows 7 64

I'm looking for guidance on establishing a connection to an AVRISP mkII programmer via OS X. Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac Build 7.0 14920 Windows 7 64-bit AVR Studio 4.19 730 After AVR Studio is installed I plug in the USB for the AVRISP mkII, it…
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Streaming a section of video to an external display

I want to be able to connect an external display to my Windows PC (in addition to the existing one), and stream a selected portion of the screen to this display. For example, if I have a small terminal window open on my main monitor, then this…
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Does the system COM port baud setting matter for Arduino?

I have a custom arduino board that is basically like any ATMega328P based setup. I'm using the FTDI friend from Adafruit to communicate with it and when the drivers for it are installed you can see in Device Manager (Windows 7 SP1) that the baud…
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How to make Proteus act as a real USB device and interact with real hardware?

I am trying to create a keyboard without the physical ICs and other components (I have some components, but not all) as a training exercise to practice HID among other things. I was wondering if there is a way to use Proteus as a virtual USB device…
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