Depending on the device in hand and one’s temperament, bringing up a new part can be a frolic through the verdant fields of discovery or an endless slog through the grey marshes of defeat. One of the ...

I seem to be having a brain fart today as my mind is just blank. I'm parsing datagrams to extract some data. I have an x,y coordinate pair in 8 bytes. My ICD tells me: bytes 1-4 are the X position ...

Working with embedded systems usually involves writing code which will interface with hardware. This often means working on the register level. It doesn’t matter if we’re talking about a UART, an ...

Processing individual bits within a byte. Bit-level manipulation is very low-level programming, often done in graphics and systems programming. See bit flipping. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ...