Innovate!

Innovate!

I recall a few years ago, I was at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, CA. We had a…

Wildebeest

Wildebeest

It has been a rather busy week with traveling, so I only have time to [rather tardily] share a random…

Embedded World 2013

Embedded World 2013

This week I am on my annual pilgrimage to Nuremberg, Germany to attend Embedded World. This is the first major…

A 1000 days with an iPad

A 1000 days with an iPad

I figured out that I have been using an iPad for just about 1000 days. I do not just mean…

Why C is faster than assembly

Why C is faster than assembly

I am very interested in the pros and cons of various programming languages for embedded applications. Although I mostly favor…

Chocolate is good

Chocolate is good

So, today is Saint Valentine’s Day. I will adopt my usual practice and ignore it. It is not because I…

Reentrant write-only ports

Reentrant write-only ports

Recently I posted about the challenges of using a write only port. Then I followed that up with another posting…

Losing the penny

Losing the penny

Here in the UK our currency is the pound, which is divided into 100 pennies. Technically, they are “new pennies”….

More on low power CPU design

More on low power CPU design

I recently wrote a posting about designing a CPU for low power by creating an instruction set where common sequences…