Raspberry Pi Pico Test Equipment: SIGNAL GENERATOR · FREQUENCY COUNTER · IC TESTER · ARBITRARY FUNCTION GENERATOR · BARE-METAL C (The Iron Krten Bench) - Brossura

Krten, Robert

Brossura

ISBN 13: 9798188526337

Casa editrice: Independently published, 2026

Riassunto

Stop buying test equipment. Build it yourself.

Ever spent hours debugging a circuit only to discover you were sold a defective batch of 74-series chips? Tired of wiring up the same basic oscillators just to test a display? It's time to take control of your workbench.

In this hands-on guide, you build a complete, modular suite of test equipment from scratch using a handful of $6 Raspberry Pi Picos. Rather than relying on expensive off-the-shelf black boxes, you combine bare-metal C programming, multicore processing, and custom PIO assembly with practical hardware design.

You will learn the design and implementation of:

• The Motherboard — the control software chassis that coordinates the other components and drives realtime processing on a dedicated core
• The Frequency Generator — three channels of square waves, DC to 62.5 MHz, selectable frequency/period mode and adjustable duty cycle
• The Frequency Counter — a three-channel display of what's going on in your hardware
• The IC Tester — a dual-Pico architecture that tests most 74-series and 4000-series parts, and even matches ROM contents against known patterns
• The Arbitrary Function Generator — three channels of purely hardware-based programmable truth tables using shift registers, look-up tables, and diode logic

Whether you're preserving vintage computers, reverse-engineering old hardware, or you simply refuse to buy what you can learn more from building, this book gives you the schematics, the C code, and the low-level theory to create indispensable tools for your bench.

About the author: Robert Krten is an embedded systems developer with forty years in international telecom and embedded R&D, including BNR, QNX, and Cisco. He has authored books and training material on QNX and embedded subjects.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Independently published
• Data di pubblicazione: 2026
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 13: 9798188526337
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 219
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile