What is an embedded system?
I just wrote a post for an Infosec site, discussing some definitions of embedded systems. I survey some existing definitions, describe why I don’t feel they represent the current state of embedded systems, and …
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Engineering.
Interview on EEWeb
Well, I’m “featured engineer” on EEWeb today. I never expected to ever have my name featured on the same page as such luminaries as Bob Pease, Jeri Ellsworth, Howard Johnson or Limor Fried, to name but …
Tool switches
@boldport asked: What are your #FPGA design space exploration techniques? which he expands upon: “Design space exploration” is the process of trying out different settings and design methods for achieving …
FPGA Q&A area on stack exchange
For those who don’t know Stack Overflow, I recommend having a look round. Web Forums (Fora?) done right. A sensible and easy way of rating questions and answers and questioners and answerers. For the right …
Executable comments
Comments in code are very useful. But not as good as executable comments… I write image processing code at work. One of my FPGAs has a piece of code which generates a signal which has a hard-coded number of clock …