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02/13/05 11:41
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 		 #87260 - PaceSetter
Responding to: ???'s previous message
One medical company that has been a client of mine several times in past years makes pacemakers and by necessity also the programming / display consoles that doctors use to interface to the pacemaker via an RF link. One generation of their programmer from the mid '80s had a specialized hardware design for the CRT controller that specifically rotated the display memory behind a 6845 display controller to make realistic "strip chart recorder" type waveform displays. Their programmer was very popular with the "end users" because it had a continuously scrolling display as opposed to a sweeping cursor display.

Today most pacemaker programmers are embedded PC designs with color VGA display controllers. With a 2.4gHz processor and a megabytes of memory it is actually possible to make quite reasonable scrolling displays. But it is off-topic here as it is not 8052.com compatible. :-)

Michael Karas


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TopicAuthorDate
GLCD Project (low frequency scope)            01/01/70 00:00      
   GLCD Scrolling            01/01/70 00:00      
      Lesson learned            01/01/70 00:00      
         did you check            01/01/70 00:00      
   hi Speed GLCD displays?            01/01/70 00:00      
      Probably            01/01/70 00:00      
      Hardware scroll            01/01/70 00:00      
         PaceSetter            01/01/70 00:00      
      Best Display >> None is perfect            01/01/70 00:00      
         Sweep mode            01/01/70 00:00      
            Scope Squares            01/01/70 00:00      
            8 Bits Update            01/01/70 00:00      
               like rotate it 90°?            01/01/70 00:00      
                  90° Rotation Indeed            01/01/70 00:00      
   One step further            01/01/70 00:00      
      Animation            01/01/70 00:00      
         scan too slow!!            01/01/70 00:00      
            15 seconds? !!!            01/01/70 00:00      
               or....            01/01/70 00:00      
               slightly more            01/01/70 00:00      
               Optimization            01/01/70 00:00      
                  calculation            01/01/70 00:00      
                     Will have a look            01/01/70 00:00      
                        assembler speedup            01/01/70 00:00      
                  if it is really slow            01/01/70 00:00      
                     too smart Man            01/01/70 00:00      
                        another way            01/01/70 00:00      
                  When do you wait?            01/01/70 00:00      
                     first choice            01/01/70 00:00      
               should I use Serial RAM for buffer?            01/01/70 00:00      
                  serial RAM and time            01/01/70 00:00      
                     lcd_not_busy();            01/01/70 00:00      
                        a much faster approach            01/01/70 00:00      
                           I don't have enough XRAM            01/01/70 00:00      
                              magic            01/01/70 00:00      
                              more tweaking            01/01/70 00:00      
                                 Good thinking Jan            01/01/70 00:00      
                                    tweaking II.            01/01/70 00:00      
                                       Magic Tweeking            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Serial RAM is useless            01/01/70 00:00      
   maybe this technique will work here            01/01/70 00:00      
      Multi-microcontrollers            01/01/70 00:00      

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