Extracting clock signals from high-speed communications by Greg Le Cheminant
One of the tricks to high-speed communication is embedding the clock signal within the data. Getting the clock back out, and using it to recover the data, requires some careful design.
ESP Research Embedded systems survey: Operating systems up for grabs by Jim Turley
This issue marks the second installment of our large-scale survey of embedded systems developers from around the world. In May we examined the ways in which embedded microprocessors are evaluated and selected. This month we do the same for operating systems.
Programmer's Toolbox I've been blogged! by Jack W. Crenshaw
GetTickCount keeps on tickin'. Before moving on, Jack responds to some of your comments.
Break Points Mighty microanalyzers by Jack G. Ganssle
These USB oscilloscopes and analyzers offer an astonishing amount of performance for little cost, and they're extremely portable.
#include What's important? by Jim Turley
"...[E]very human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act...is founded on compromise and barter," said 18th-century political philosopher Edmund Burke. He could have been describing embedded systems design.