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Development: Embedding Graphics, Part I
by Niall Murphy
A number of graphical toolkits are now on the market that provide bitmaps and fonts, as well as buttons, sliders, and other graphical controls for use with mouse-based or touchscreen systems. This article, part 1 of 2, examines some of the issues that you have to address if you're going to implement your own drawing routines.
A Generic API for Bit Manipulation in C
by Richard Hogaboom
The built-in facilities for bit manipulation in C may be sufficient for interaction with memory-mapped device registers, but they are often insufficient for other uses. This article presents a solution to the bit manipulation problems that is portable to any platform.
CompactPCI: A Market Perspective
Jerry Krasner
Even though CompactPCI has been around for a while, it hasn't gathered a lot of momentum. What will it take to enable this technology to find success?
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Flash Memory: Past, Present, and Future
by Jack G. Ganssle
Many embedded developers think of flash as nothing more than a replacement for EPROM, but flash can also be used as a replacement for battery-backed RAM and bulk storage.
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