[Tim’s] new version of Micronucleus, Micronucleus 2.0, improves upon V-USB by removing the need for interrupts. The original Micronucleus was a very small implementation of V-USB that took up only 2KB ...

This application note demonstrates the implementation of an interrupt-driven UART, an on-chip peripheral block featured in Zilog’s Z8 Encore! XP and Z8 Encore! MC families of microcontrollers. This ...

Every embedded software application must at some point access the lowest levels of firmware and control the hardware. The design and implementation of drivers is critical to ensuring a system is able ...

What’s the biggest difference between writing code for your big computer and a microcontroller? OK, the memory and limited resources, sure. But we were thinking more about the need to directly ...

In 1999 Altera set out to develop the Nios processor, a product that would provide the functionality of a microcontroller within a PLD. However, first we had to better understand the needs of ...