• Software Driven Verification of ARM-based SoC Designs
    I started my design career far too long ago doing system verification on a multi-processor server design. Basically, I was charged with assembling a model of the system and then writing some tests to...
  • Simple Card-based Access Control
    About the Application This project implements a very common access control device. The LTPS is equipped with Tibbit #08 (clock/data and Wiegand interface). It gets card codes from an external RFID card...
  • Code Optimization Tips for ARM-based PSoC Devices
    I’ve been writing about memory optimization for a few weeks now, both here and on the Cypress developer community site . In all those posts I (hopefully) provide a useful tidbit of information but it...
  • Buildroot-based system for ATM7029 devices
    Is anybody works on firmware for Actions-based devices to run native Linux? Where is the best place to discuss both hw/sw specifics of doing this?
  • SmallSat Electronics Ecosystem Expands with new Arm Cortex-based Reference Design
    Last week I attended the SmallSat symposium in Mountain View. This is the first of around half a dozen Small Satellite conferences that I’ll attend in 2018. That sounds like a lot of small satellite conferences...