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Gene Breniman's Embedded Systems Blog
Gene Breniman is a founder of Young Embedded Systems, a firm specializing in low-cost test and measurement systems. Gene has over 30 years experience in design and development of hardware and software for embedded systems. He has worked in a variety of fields, including avionics, life sciences and automatic test equipment engineering.
I owe, I owe, so off to work I go.....
The economy hit my start-up plans pretty toughly. My step-daughter and I were working out of a common pool of money (our savings account), and in the end, she won out. She is in her ...
posted by Gene Breniman on Sep 7 2009 under ARM | Software Development | Consulting | Hardware Development | Education
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A part of history
This past weekend I had the pleasure of attending the 40-year anniversary celebration of the formation of my high school's radio station (KVHS). The current students and staff of KVHS hoste... posted by Gene Breniman on Mar 19 2009 under Miscellaneous | Education
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Software Prototyping
In my recent blog entry on the product development process (way down, near the end of the entry), I wrote the following:"I continue these sorts of tests, building more and more complexity, until ... posted by Gene Breniman on Aug 19 2008 under Software Development | Hardware Development
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Bringing up Baby - product development thoughts
Things have just started to get exciting. After months of defining, specifying and designing my latest product, I finally have semi-functional prototypes. After a few side steps during the building ... posted by Gene Breniman on Aug 15 2008 under Software Development | Hardware Development
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VHDL tutorial - Creating a hierarchical design
In earlier blog entries I introduced some of the basic VHDL concepts. First, developing a function ('VHDL tutorial') and later verifying and refining it ('VHDL tutorial - part 2 - Testbench' and 'VHDL... posted by Gene Breniman on May 22 2008 under VHDL programming | Tutorials
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VHDL tutorial - combining clocked and sequential logic
In an earlier article on VHDL programming ("VHDL tutorial" and "VHDL tutorial - part 2 - Testbench", I described a design for providing a programmable clock divider for a ADC sequencer. In this exampl... posted by Gene Breniman on Mar 3 2008 under VHDL programming | Tutorials
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Small business tackling big jobs.
Greetings and a Happy New Year to all!I have been extremely busy the last few months tackling a small job that turned into a big job. A few months ago, while working on starting my own company and pr... posted by Gene Breniman on Jan 6 2008 under Business | Consulting
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Great men in my life.
In my first post on this site (Will work for Tools!), I mentioned how my Grandfather had inspired me to become an Engineer. Today, I write in sadness about the loss of three men, all this year, and ... posted by Gene Breniman on Nov 9 2007 under
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VHDL tutorial - part 2 - Testbench
In an earlier article I walked through the VHDL coding of a simple design. In this article I will continue the process and create a test bench module to test the earlier design. The Xilinx ISE envir... posted by Gene Breniman on Oct 30 2007 under VHDL programming | Tutorials
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VHDL tutorial
When I was first introduced to "Programmable Logic" several years ago, it was an answer to many of the challenges that I was struggling with. Though the parts were primitive by today's stan... posted by Gene Breniman on Oct 4 2007 under VHDL programming
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No, I'm not retired!
For many years now, I have been looking for the right opportunity to strike out on my own. At first I had a few ideas that looked promising, but I was not in a position to leave my full-time employme... posted by Gene Breniman on Sep 26 2007 under
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Will work for tools!
I have always believed that tools are necessary to the creative process. This is something I learned early in life and it's a lesson that has stuck with me to this day. When I was 7 years old, I made... posted by Gene Breniman on Sep 23 2007 under Tools
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