Articles

• FPGA vs CPU vs GPU vs Microcontroller: How Do They Fit into the Processing Jigsaw Puzzle?

• Microprocessor Evaluation (1971-1996)

• THE AMAZING $1 MICROCONTROLLER

• An Open Letter to Intel by Andrew S. Tanenbaum

• Meltdown and Spectre

• WHY RASPBERRY PI ISN’T VULNERABLE TO SPECTRE OR MELTDOWN

• Infographics: Operation Costs in CPU Clock Cycles

Articles on Programmable Logic

• Beginner’s Guide to Understanding FPGA Development

• Three Ages of FPGAs: A Retrospective on the First Thirty Years of FPGA Technology

• 10 FPGA Design Techniques You Should Know

• How to Implement State Machines in Your FPGA

• HDL Coding styles

• Time-borrowing in programmable UltraScale+ leaf clock buffers boosts Fmax 5.5% on average, perhaps by » 10%

• Fixed Point Numbers in Verilog

• FPGA Resources at GateForge Consulting Ltd.

• Controlling Timing within an FPGA

• Using the Clock Period Constraint to Your Advantage

• How Do I Reset My FPGA?

• Using Xilinx Tools in Command-Line Mode

• How to Build a Self-Checking Testbench

• Arbiters: Design Ideas and Coding Styles

Articles on Digital Design

• The Ten Commandments of Excellent Design from Peter Chambers

• Excellent Tutorial on Latches and Flip-Flops from Enoch Hwang, Ph.D.

• Understanding the Basics of Setup and Hold Time

• ASAP and ALAP scheduling

Articles on Embedded Systems, Operating Systems, and Programming

• Baking Pi - Operating Systems Development

• OSDev.org

• A tutorial on writing kernels

• Behind the process

• What every systems programmer should know about concurrency by Matt Kline

• THE BASICS AND PITFALLS OF POINTERS IN C

• WHEN 4 + 1 EQUALS 8: AN ADVANCED TAKE ON POINTERS IN C

• How to Use C’s volatile Keyword

• EMBED WITH ELLIOT: THE VOLATILE KEYWORD

• EMBED WITH ELLIOT: THE STATIC KEYWORD YOU DON’T FULLY UNDERSTAND

• 5 Tips for Designing a Smart Watchdog

• 7 Steps to Create a Stack Monitor

• Linked List Problems

• Step-by-Step into Argp

Articles on Security

• 4 Ways a Password Could be Hacked Using Common Linux Tools

• Cracking a Simple Passworded File: A Beginner’s Guide to Security