Just in time for the holidays, now you can make like Will Ferrell and elf yourself!

If this doesn’t bring a smile to your face, then you should just go to sleep and wait for Jacob Marley and the rest of the ghosts to come and visit you this weekend.

I will say I think I make one of the ugliest elfs on the planet though. Hopefully you’re much better than I am.

You can make one of these little greetings for yourself at Elf Yourself.com
and send it to your friends. In addition, although I didn’t do it, you
can record your voice greeting to go along with your card.

I’d love to see you as an elf, so be sure and come back and leave
your personalized URL in the comments and share with the rest of us.

Here’s the link to my personalized card.

UPDATE: If you’re having problems accessing the Elf Yourself website, try leaving off the “www” in the URL. So, use http://elfyourself.com

Ref : http://www.uncovertheinternet.com/go-elf-yourself/

How to get rid of SoftICE mode in P89V51RD2.

Disclaimer:

No warranty that this will work for your device.

No liability for damages, lost devices etc.

Do everything on your onwn risk.

Assuming bootloader v4 and softice mode (consequence of :00000002FE).

download and install Keil uVision2 (evaluation version is enough); run it
download unsoftice.a51 (ref [1])
select Project->New Project, enter any name (e.g.
"unsoftice"); a "select device for Target" window opens, select
Philips->P89V51RD2, a dialog opens ("Copy Standard 8051 startuop
code...") answer No
select File->Open, select unsoftice.a51; file should open
select Project->Components,Environments,Books, a window
opens, in Project Components select Add Files, enter/browse
unsoftice.a51
select Project->Build target, in the bottom (Outputs Window) it should write
```
 0 Error(s), 0 Warning(s).
```
select Project->Options for Project, Option for Project
window opens, select tab Debug, select in the right column on top Use:
Keil Monitor-51 driver, don't change anything else (unless the target
device is not on COM1 - in that case modify it in the Options), click
OK (window closes)
select Debug->Start/Stop debug session (in evaluation
version a nag window EVALUATION VERSION (code limit 2k) opens, click
OK), the windows rearrange a bit
select Debug-Go (nothing really happens), clicking on the red
"Stop" button should bring a window saying something like "Can't stop
application because serial interrupt is disabled". Click Stop
debugging, wait for a moment until window "Connection to target lost"
appears, click Stop Debugging.
you can exit Keil uVision2.

At this moment, the original state of bootloader is (hopefully) already restored.

Test:

- run your favorite terminal emulator, set 9600/8/n/1
NO_handshake. Switch CAPS LOCK ON (check led CapsLock on keyboard) and
hold U (for autorepeated capital U). Reset the target (or switch
off/on) while holding U. In a while, it should echo back the U's. Now
try typing

:020000050000f9

it should echo what you type and when typing
in the last character (="9") it should echo 2 more characters, a
fullstop and a carriage return, so the echo should look like:

:020000050000f9BF.

Now you can upgrade the bootloader to version 5 (can be found on Philips website) or try some other bootloader modification...

REF: http://www.efton.sk/t0t1/unsoftice.htm

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REF 1:
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SFCF DATA 0B1H ; Flash Configuration
SFCM DATA 0B2H ; Flash Command
SFAL DATA 0B3H ; Flash Address Low
SFAH DATA 0B4H ; Flash Address High
SFDT DATA 0B5H ; Flash Data
SFST DATA 0B6H ; Flash Status

;************************************************************************
;* MCU IAP Commands *
;************************************************************************
SFCM_SE EQU 0BH ; Sector-Erase IAP cmd
SFCM_VB EQU 0CH ; Byte-Verify IAP cmd
SFCM_PB EQU 0EH ; Byte-Program IAP cmd

;************************************************************************

ORIG_DATA EQU R6
;************************************************************************
;* MAIN PROGRAM *
;************************************************************************

org 00000h
ljmp main

org 2000h
main: mov PSW, #0 ; select register bank 0

start: anl SFCF, #10111111b ; BFh--> force IAPEN=0
; orl SFCF, #10000000b ; VIS=1
; mov SFDT, #0 ; Enter any value other than 55h
mov dptr, #1f00h ;load destination addr.
lcall sector_erase ; erase the bytes before write to them
;=====================================================================

mov a,#00h

mov dptr,#1f20h
loop:
mov ORIG_DATA, a
lcall byte_pgm ; write a byte from ACC to dest address

lcall verify_byte ; read back the byte written to destination
xrl a, ORIG_DATA ; compare with original data
jnz ERROR ; jump to ERROR if verification fails

Stop:
ajmp Stop ; end of code execution

;************************************************************************
;* IAP SUBROUTINES *
;* 1. SECTOR-ERASE *
;* 2. BYTE-PROGRAM *
;* 3. BYTE-VERIFY *
;************************************************************************

;===================================================================
; Subroutine of Sector Erase
;===================================================================
sector_erase:
orl SFCF, #40h ; enable IAP
mov SFAH, dph ; load high order address byte
mov SFAL, dpl ; load low order address byte
mov SFCM, #SFCM_SE ; issue sector erase command

busy: mov a, SFST
jb acc.2, busy ; wait until flash is NOT busy.

safety:
anl SFCF, #10111111b ; disable IAP
mov SFDT, #0 ; any value other than 55h

ret

;=====================================================================
; Subroutine of Byte Program
;=====================================================================
byte_pgm:
orl SFCF, #40h ; enable IAP
mov SFAH, dph ; set address to write a byte
mov SFAL, dpl
mov SFDT, ORIG_DATA ; store data to be programmed
mov SFCM, #SFCM_PB ; issue program-byte cmd

done?: mov a, SFST
jb acc.2, done? ; wait until byte-programming is done.
ljmp safety
;=====================================================================
; Subroutine of Byte Verify
;=====================================================================
verify_byte:
orl SFCF, #40h ; enable IAP
mov SFAH, dph ; address from where to read a byte
mov SFAL, dpl
mov SFCM, #SFCM_VB ; issue verify_byte cmd
nop
mov a, SFDT ; data is stored in ACC
ljmp safety
;=====================================================================

ERROR:
mov p1, #55h ;indicating IAP failed.

EXIT:
sjmp $

END