Search Results - "Embedded Systems Programming"

Understand Your Users' Needs by Ganssle, Jack G

“…An old business adage advises one to "stick to one's knitting"-develop and sell products to markets you truly understand. If you don't deeply understand what…”
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Surprise, Surprise by Turley, Jim

“…Whatever elegance and simplicity the iPod embodies is because it doesn't do anything apart from play, rewind, and fast-forward tunes. It's a storage device in…”
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Use Volatile Judiciously by Saks, Dan

“…According to the syntax rules of C and C++, the keyword volatile can appear anywhere that the keyword const can. Whereas a const object is one whose value the…”
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Architecture of Safety-Critical Systems by Kalinsky, David

“…A fault tree analysis begins by asking "What are the three (or six or seven) most life-threatening things my system could conceivably do?" Each safety threat…”
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Expand Your 8051 Memory by Pawloski, Martin B

“…When this FJMP instruction is read from memory the three bus cycles will fetch the bytes OxAl, 0x43, 0x21. The PME-51 detects that the OxAl opcode byte is an…”
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Survey: Who Uses Custom Chips by Turley, Jim

“…The soft-processor alternatives did even more poorly. A little over 14% of FPGA users say they download a "soft" processor into their FPGA. Soft processors…”
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Stupid Users by Turley, Jim

“…Sometimes elegant engineering is thwarted by poor interface design, bad marketing, or simple human nature. Most digital camera buyers don't read the manual…”
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Oops, I Did It Again by Turley, Jim

“…We'd certainly intended to include μC/OS but due to an accidental editing error it somehow got removed in the final version we fielded. Even though we'd…”
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Languages, Architectures, and Algorithms by Ratford, Vin

“…So, although the future for digital design engineers may be scary-"languages, architectures, and algorithms, oh my!"-it's a lot less scary for DSP-centric…”
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Turn a Kid on to Embedded Systems by Ganssle, Jack G

“…For parts and supplies it's hard to beat Digikey (www.digikey.com), which has everything electronic, from resistors to complete development platforms. I find…”
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Parity Bit: Missing [mu]C/OS-II, Other RTOSes by Labrosse, Jean J, Jungwirth, Mark, Marshall, Hamid, Abbott, Doug

“…I specifically noted one major oversight and that is the absence of the μC/OS-II operating system that is described in my book (MicroC/OS-II, The Real-Time…”
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To Err is Human: Teaching a GUI Good Manners by Murphy, Niall

“…Sometimes these wizard interfaces present defaults to the user, allowing the user to select "Next" repeatedly. Often the last step is the one that permits the…”
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Extracting Clock Signals from High-Speed Communications by Greg Le Cheminant

“…Wide-bandwidth oscilloscopes can extract clocks from the signals being observed. Advanced clock-recovery schemes allow the loop bandwidth to be adjusted to…”
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What's Important? by Turley, Jim

“…Lately I've been thinking that hardware isn't important. Now before you round up the lynch mob, hear me out. I'm not saying that processors, memory,…”
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Operating Systems Up For Grabs by Turley, Jim

“…Most anti-Linux developers said they wouldn't consider it simply because it was incompatible with their existing code. In other words, they've already adopted…”
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I've Been Blogged by Crenshaw, Jack W

“…Look, I'm no Windows programmer, CE or otherwise. I don't claim to be, I have no ambition of being. I'm the wrong guy to dig into Microsoft code to find out…”
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Combating Obsolescence: FPGAs In Electronic Systems by Cantle, Allan

“…FPGAs, like people, can work effectively in pretty much any environment. FPGAs may not be the most efficient at any one problem but they're generally the most…”
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Assertive Debugging: Correcting Software As If We Meant It by Halpern, Mark

“…To arrive at a true estimate of the cost of the ADS approach, the main requirement is to make sure that it's being compared against a thoroughly realistic…”
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How to Analyze Processor Features for Network Use by Levy, Markus

“…Whether a packet is to be forwarded to another router or processed and sent to a local machine, the router's first step for processing packets is to validate…”
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New Semiconductor Markets Ensure Continued Growth by Marshall, Morry

“…The semiconductor industry is creating the digital home. Following Moore's Law, the number of transistors possible on a chip kept doubling, leading to powerful…”
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