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UART Protocols and Applications in Embedded Systems
WEBJan 20, 2021 — UART in embedded system. Embedded systems, microcontrollers, and computers mostly use a UART as a form of device-to-device hardware communication protocol. Among the available communication protocols, a UART uses only two wires for its transmitting and receiving ends. Despite being a widely used method of hardware communication protocol, it is ...
USB Type-C and power delivery 101 – Ports and connections
WEBMay 8, 2017 — USB Type-C is the newly introduced and powerful interconnect standard for USB. When paired with the new Power Delivery (PD) specification, Type-C offers enhancements to the existing USB 3.1 interconnect that lower the cost and simplify the implementation of power delivery over USB. From a form factor perspective, the USB Type-C connector combines multiple USB connectors – Micro-B, Type-A ...
FPGA programming step by step - Embedded
WEBMar 4, 2004 — History of Linking Early computers had a “patch board” that looked somewhat like the telephone patch boards of the 1940s where “patch cords” were plugged into “sockets” to make connections between various buses and register inputs and outputs.The patch boards of the '40s and '50s evolved into the bit-slice microprogramming of the 1970s, where, again, the focus was on control of ...
Mastering motor control: motor control 101 - Embedded
WEBJan 3, 2024 — Boris Radonic is a Research and Development Engineer with more than 30 years of experience in Electronic Engineering, Control Systems, and Software Engineering, focusing on real-time applications. He holds an engineering degree from the University of Zagreb and a Master’s degree from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW).
Serial Communication Protocols Compared - Embedded
WEBMay 31, 2002 — RS-422 and RS-485 protocols. TIA/EIA-422-B (typically referred to as RS-422) and TIA/EIA-485-A (typically referred to as RS-485) are balanced, twisted-pair interfaces capable of speeds up to 10Mbps and distances up to 4,000 feet. Being differential buses, each uses signals from 1.5V to 6V to transmit the data.
Endianness: An Introduction to Little Vs. Big Endian
WEBDec 28, 2001 — Differences between big and little endian. Endianness comes in two varieties: big and little. A big endian representation has a multibyte integer written with its most significant byte on the left; a number represented thus is easily read by English-speaking humans. A little endian representation, on …
Direct Memory Access (DMA) - Embedded
WEBOct 14, 2003 — Direct memory access (DMA) is a means of having a peripheral device control a processor’s memory bus directly. DMA permits the peripheral, such as a UART, to transfer data directly to or from memory without having each byte (or word) handled by the processor. Thus DMA enables more efficient use of …
What is the AI of things (AIoT)? - Embedded
WEBJun 4, 2021 — A combination of AI and IoT (AIoT) creates “intelligent” devices that learn from the generated data and use these insights to make autonomous decisions. New AI technologies are enabling intelligence on the edge and are significantly reducing the need for, and costs associated with cloud analytics. AI is expected to be the technology that ...
Ring Buffer Basics - Embedded
WEBAug 7, 2013 — The ring buffer (also known as a circular buffer, circular queue, or cyclic buffer) is a circular software queue. This queue has a first-in-first-out (FIFO) data characteristic. These buffers are quite common and are found in many embedded systems. Usually, most developers write these constructs from scratch on an as-needed basis.