- December 31, 2008In the last article, I stated “I see no benefit to level-triggered interrupts. … If you believe otherwise, let me…
- November 29, 2008Interrupt modules monitor multiple interrupt sources. Interrupt modules come in two flavors: level-triggered or edge-triggered.
- October 31, 2008Ideally, the same IP and firmware could be used for every instantiation with little or no modification due to optional…
- September 30, 2008When an engineer on one team has a problem, there should be no barriers to prevent going to a member…
- August 30, 2008A reader brought up a useful distinction between a power-on reset and a hard reset. Some things are done only…
- July 31, 2008Guidelines for the control that hardware modules and firmware code should have over different types of hardware reset.
- June 30, 2008Failure to catch documentation problems typically results in hours wasted on debugging that could and should have been avoided.
- May 31, 2008A chicken and egg problem: How can we know whether or not a downstream master is idle without switching to…
- March 31, 2008The register table from last month now indicates the access type, read/write or read-only, of the bits in the register.
- February 28, 2008Documentation plays a key role in this effort since engineers must refer to it constantly to look up register and…
