Transistor-transistor-logic or TTL parts have been around for a long time and now and then, I still seem to run across this or that “thing” where they've been designed in, not necessarily in the ...

Many systems use an I 2 C bus for internal communications between devices, such as microprocessors, microcontrollers, memories, and other digitally-controlled devices. This bus topology relies on ...

I fear the topic of this column is poised to unleash a tsunami of controversy. My engineering accomplice Joe Farr says that this is one of those topics that, when presented to 10 different engineers, ...

Part of setting up a microcontroller when writing a piece of firmware usually involves configuring its connections to the outside world. You define a mapping of physical pins to intenral peripherals ...