An introduction to USB development.

Prudence seems the watchword for adopting asynchronous design practices. [Embedded.com]

Article describes Ubicom IP3023 processor. It appears to have built-in Ethernet interface, USB controller, PCI and ISA bus interfaces, PCMCIA slot, synchronous DRAM controller, set of UARTs, etc., but does it all by software. Embedded.com.

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C, most popular of all embedded languages, may be fun and efficient, but is a horrible language, with little to help make correct programs; a disaster, bizarre hodgepodge meant to give far too much control over computer. [Embedded.com]

Using several features of the language, this article presents a framework for resource allocation which is temporally deterministic, provides for callback, provides memory pools, and can provide for deadlock prevention.

Explains why constant objects are not as useful as some people would like them to be.

Shows all choices for defining symbolic constants.

Presents insights on choosing between symbolic constants as either enumeration constants or constant objects.

Explains how the rules for initializing references differ from the rules for initializing pointers.