Embedded Programming

IBM's PPC being open sourced .. what does this mean for embedded devices ?

HI all, I know is this kind-of old news by now, but -as far as I see- this has not been discussed here: IBM is open-sou...

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posted by kristoff

8 comments posted 7yrs posted by kristoff

Embedded Intel Optane?

I was asking about Optane memory in another group and it occurred to me tha t while it is to expensive to make a SSD fr...

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posted by gnuarm.deletethisbit

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intel 386 et al

Anyone know of a good handbook describing the machine code of Intel's 386's? A page describing each instruction along w...

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posted by ht

13 comments posted 7yrs posted by ht

RISC-V Picking Up Steam

RISC-V is appearing in low cost MCUs and on low cost START boards. Just not documented in English. $11 simple board.......

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posted by gnuarm.deletethisbit

11 comments posted 7yrs posted by gnuarm.deletethisbit

No dynamic memory at all: newlib and sprintf

I'd like to avoid using dynamic memory (heap) at all. I'm using gcc for ARM and newlib (really I'm using NXP MCUXpresso...

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posted by pozzugno

11 comments posted 7yrs posted by pozzugno

What is TI PRU-ICSS processor core?

TI's web page is here, but doesn't explain origin of instruction set? http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/PRU-ICSS...

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posted by drn

6 comments posted 7yrs posted by drn

Input-driven vs event-driven state machines in embedded software

There is a lot of confusion about state machines in embedded software. Some example of this is the recent discussion in...

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posted by statemachineguru

5 comments posted 7yrs posted by statemachineguru

FSM - Mealy vs. Moore

I'm discussing Finite State Machine (FSM) design in logic with some hardwar e folks and I thought I'd ask what a softwa...

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posted by gnuarm.deletethisbit

13 comments posted 7yrs posted by gnuarm.deletethisbit

Remove unused data from the build output

I have defined a myassert(char *module, int line) function that uses the arguments only in Debug build. myassert() is d...

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posted by pozzugno

4 comments posted 7yrs posted by pozzugno

PJRC Teensy 4.0 announced, small 600 mhz Cortex M7 board

In case anyone cares about this sort of thing. I find it cool. Teensy 4.0 is announced: - NXP iMXRT1062 Cortex M7 MCU,...

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posted by no.email

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Examples for tklib's diagram package?

Hello out there, I am tasked to create a 'block diagram editor' and looking at tklib's diagram package it looks like ma...

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posted by hgiese

2 comments posted 7yrs posted by hgiese

External SPI Flash for storing data

I have a board with Cortex-M3 NXP LPC1875 MCU with 512kB internal Flash, one 8MB external SDRAM and 2MB external SPI Fl...

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posted by pozzugno

15 comments posted 7yrs posted by pozzugno

Dynamic allocation and newlib-nano

I normally don't use dynamic allocation in embedded projects, however there are situations where this isn't possible. I...

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posted by pozzugno

10 comments posted 7yrs posted by pozzugno

Boeing 737 Max software fix fails... again

Just when you thought it was safe to fly again... It make me think that every time you add code to close a loop-hole, yo...

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posted by no.spam

5 comments posted 7yrs posted by no.spam

GE Smart Light Bulb reset

It took a very long time to realise that this wasn't a bad parody. If you were the engineer who implemented this, kill y...

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posted by no.spam

11 comments posted 7yrs posted by no.spam