When programming a microcontroller, there are some physical limitations that you’ll come across much earlier than programming a modern computer, whether that’s program size or even processor speed. To ...

The instructions a programmer writes when creating a program. Lines of code are the "source code" of the program, and one line may generate one machine instruction or several depending on the ...

Digital signal processors (DSPs) have found widespread use for many computationally intensive signal processing applications in fields such as communications. As the communication applications become ...

Over the last few months I've been pondering the use of assembly language. After chatting to a variety of different people, I have the impression that the world is split between ...

With modern tools, you have to try very hard to do something stupid, because the tools (rightly) recognize you’re doing something stupid. [Andreas Karlsson] can speak to that first hand as he tried to ...