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October 31, 2009

On many occasions there was someone attending our meetings who was not part of our team but was a representative of some other team.

September 30, 2009

When someone starts pulling hard for a “one and only true” way, I look very carefully at their arguments.

July 31, 2009

Some have said that 5 to 20% of their code is product specific. The larger the code base, the more they split product code into files.

June 30, 2009

Here are a few techniques to have one device driver support several printers with different features, capabilities, and chips.

May 30, 2009

In an article, four Windows programmers discuss various ways hardware engineers could make software development and debugging easier.

April 30, 2009

DMAs are commonly used to transfer data into and out of a block, but what about using the DMA to read and write block configuration values?

March 30, 2009

Designing only countup counters, instead of also designing countdown counters and up/down counters, reduces risk. Maybe.

February 28, 2009

Countdown timers (and counters) are used in many applications to generate an interrupt if some event does not occur within a specified time.

January 31, 2009

Are two things compatible with each other or not? For hardware-firmware integration, at least, compatibility is a matter of degree.

December 31, 2008

In the last article, I stated “I see no benefit to level-triggered interrupts. … If you believe otherwise, let me know…” and you did.