When dealing with errors in firmware, one encounters formal explanations of concepts like "undefined behavior," "storage duration," "variable lifetime," "initialization," and "dereferencing", whether scrolling Stack Overflow, arguing with your LLM of choice, or studying C standards at university, or discussing over an implementation detail with a colleague. These concepts are presented theoretically, rigorously, as abstract … Continue reading Exploiting C undefined behavior to blink an LED
In the previous article, I shared the initial steps toward creating an amateurial ASIC design. I had a concept for a colour generator, which I first prototyped directly on an FPGA. I also introduced some of the platforms and companies that make ASIC fabrication more accessible by allowing multiple users to share a single production … Continue reading RGBW Controller ASIC, Part 2 – Design for silicon, clock and reset considerations
Using a manufacturer independent tooling can have good impacts on autonomy, learning experience and realization on what really works for an engineer regarding the whole embedded development process. I wanted to look for a complete setup working natively in Windows, yet as much as possible open source, to have a manufacturer independent tooling. I will … Continue reading Open source ARM based toolchain development and debug on Windows with no emulation
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