Why Buffer? Because buffers cut you some slack. Inevitably, in our recent series on microcontroller interrupts, the question of how to deal with actual serial data came up. In those examples, we were ...

One of the many changes slipped quietly into BitKeeper over the last week was this patch from Linus changing how pipes are implemented internally. For a long time, pipes have used a single page to ...

This application note presents an interrupt-driven UART for Z8 Encore! XP® and Z8 Encore! MC™ microcontrollers. It describes the UART register description, the circular buffer implementation, as well ...

One of the outcomes from the Collaboration Summit in April was a plan to create a tracing ring buffer implementation that would work for both Ftrace and LTTng. There was also hope that perhaps the ...