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The Embedded Bridge
Providing Best Practices
to Bridge the Hardware/Firmware Divide

This free monthly newsletter contains tips, tricks, and best practices on how to improve the interface between hardware and firmware and to help engineers more quickly develop quality embedded products. These are practical ideas from real-world experiences collected from a variety of sources. Readers are invited to reply with their opinion on the subject, pro or con. To submit ideas for possible inclusion in a newsletter, fill out the survey form or send email to .

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Past Issues

Issue #33 — Product-Specific Details
Issue #32 — Programmers’ Wishlists for Hardware Engineers
Issue #31 — Using DMA for the Block Itself
Issue #30 — Countdown vs. Countup Counters
Issue #29 — Analyzing Countdown Timers
Issue #28 — Compatibility of New Blocks with Old Device Drivers
Issue #27 — Responses to Level-triggered vs. Edge-triggered Interrupts
Issue #26 — Level-triggered vs. Edge-triggered Interrupts
Issue #25 — Deactivating Optional I/O Signals
Issue #24 — Organizational Barriers
Issue #23 — More on Resets
Issue #22 — Levels of Reset
Issue #21 — Accurate Register Specifications
Issue #20 — Sniffing I²C
Issue #19 — More on Documenting Registers
Issue #18 — Documenting Registers
Issue #17 — Intangible Benefits
Issue #16 — More Troubleshooting Support in DMA Controllers
Issue #15 — Using DMA Controllers to Troubleshoot Problems
Issue #14 — Managing Platform-Specific Code
Issue #13 — The Impacts of Debugging Facilities and Platform-Specific Code
Issue #12 — Identifying Chips and Blocks
Issue #11 — More on Buffer Zones
Issue #10 — Analyzing Buffer Zones
Issue #9 — Abiding by Industry Standards
Issue #8 — The (not so) Exciting World of Documentation
Issue #7 — Designing a Chip for Unplanned Products
Issue #6 — Built-in Debugging Support
Issue #5 — Accommodating Product Changes
Issue #4 — Basic Interrupt Behavior
Issue #3 — Balancing How Firmware Waits on Hardware
Issue #2 — Different Bit Types in Different Registers
Issue #1 — Early Hardware/Firmware Collaboration


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