Designers of microcontroller-based products that require a keypad for user data entry can select from dedicating an input line for each key, continuously polling the keypad's x and y lines, or ...

This application note presents an interrupt-driven UART for Z8 Encore! XP® and Z8 Encore! MC™ microcontrollers. It describes the UART register description, the circular buffer implementation, as well ...

In “Handler Migration and Direct Interrupt Scheduling,” Jupyung Lee and Kyu Ho Park of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology describe two techniques to minimize the scheduling latency ...

A fundamental skill that embedded software developers need to master is understanding how to write drivers. Within an embedded system, there a typically two types of drivers: microcontroller ...