Digital signal processors (DSPs) have found widespread use for many computationally intensive signal processing applications in fields such as communications. As the communication applications become ...

Over the last few months I've been pondering the use of assembly language. After chatting to a variety of different people, I have the impression that the world is split between ...

The instructions a programmer writes when creating a program. Lines of code are the "source code" of the program, and one line may generate one machine instruction or several depending on the ...

In the early embedded days Real Programmers wrote their code in assembly language. They knew exactly what the program did and how many clock cycles it took to run. Then customers wanted systems that ...

Sometimes the urge strikes to get busy coding for an old retro system, but unfortunately the bar to entry can be high. There’s a need to find a workable compiler, let alone trying to figure out how to ...

When programming a microcontroller, there are some physical limitations that you’ll come across much earlier than programming a modern computer, whether that’s program size or even processor speed. To ...