It's easy to ignore your ethernet port's blinking lights, but in reality these signals could be communicating crucial information regarding your connection.
An earlier Idea For Design (“Hardware-Based LED Blinking Control Eliminates Software Overhead,” Sept. 27, 2007, p. 52) described a very interesting way to offload the software overhead required for a ...
Powering components off and on—with minimal system intervention, also known as blink—is a valuable power savings technique. The supported Altera devices are well suited for this due to their simple ...