When talking about microcontrollers and embedded software, the term interrupt often appears.Timer interrupts, external interrupts, interrupt priority...You might understand that it seems important, ...

AMD and Intel recently started changing how the x86 chip architecture will handle exceptions. Linus Torvalds, in turn, gave his take on their new approach for forthcoming generations of CPUs. Torvalds ...

Just as you can often treat device registers as a memory-mapped struct, you can treat an interrupt vector as a memory-mapped array. In my last column, I suggested that you use casts sparingly and with ...

Abstract: This application note explains the function of a CPU supervisor and how it can monitor a system. The article discusses the function of a watchdog timer, chip-enable gating pin, and a sense ...

There have been a considerable number of papers describing a number of different aspects of and approaches to realtime, a few of which were listed in the RESOURCES section of my "realtime patch ...