San Jose, Ca. – Atmel Corp. has begun revamping its 32 bit ARM7TDM-based microcontroller devices with a new peripheral DMA controller (PDC) architecture it believes will significantly improve ...
Atmel’s AT91SAM7X128 and AT91SAM7X256 ARM7-based, flash microcontrollers include peripheral support for 10/100 Ethernet; CANs (controller-area networks); full-speed, 12-Mbps USB 2.0 devices; and ...
[Jordan] has been playing around with WS2812b RGB LED strips with TI’s Tiva and Stellaris Launchpads. He’s been using the SPI lines to drive data to the LED strip, but this method means the processor ...
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 ...
Another technique common to both embeddedprocessor performance optimization and embedded processor poweroptimization is software pipelining. Software pipelining is a techniquewhere the programmer ...