My friend recently bought a Kudo Electronic switched pendulum clock from the ebay. After the receievment he had notified that the clock did not working. The problem was caused by the melted batteries. The acid and other chemicals had corroded the switching PCB, make it totally unrecoverable.

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If you want to use your Altera USBBlaster with urjtag without root privileges you should add the following to the
/etc/udev/rules.d/52-altera-usb.rules files.


# USB-Blaster
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6001", MODE="0666"


Credits goes to turul64

Miután a marsjáró kb. 3 hónapja áll a jólnevelt blútúszos távirányítósautó státuszában, épp idejét láttam annak hogy nekiálljak valami ügyes navigátort hegeszteni hozzá.

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I have recently got a Pinnacle Showcenter SC1000 as a gift from one of my friends.

The peripherials made me intrested, so I have disassembled it to check the internals:

It features the following stuff:
- Sigma Designs EM8551 Soc (datasheet here)
- RJ45 ethernet connector powered by an Davicom DM9000E
- 2 * 8 MB RAM ARC4X16S4K3VF-55
- 2 * 2 MB Flash AM29LV160DB
- 8 MB RAM dedicated for the MPEG codec
- wide range of video output connectors (SCART, SVideo) unfortunatelly nothigng high definition
- PCMCIA slot
- an unpopulated IDE connector
- two fully featured unpopulated serial ports
- and an unpopulated 20 pin header. At first I would bet that it is a JTAG connector, but it isn't.

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I have generated a pinout map for the Sigma Designs EM85XX family SOC:
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