[Barry] needed some way to get serial output to help debug his efforts to port Linux to the HTC TytnII (Windows mobile Pocket PC phone). He wrote some code to send serial output via one of the LEDs on ...

Modern embedded systems are becoming increasingly compact, power efficient, and feature rich. As SoCs integrate more functionality, developers need reliable debug access without increasing pin count ...

Debugging with printf is something [StorePeter] has always found super handy, and as a result he’s always been interested in tweaking the process for improvements. This kind of debugging usually has ...

If you've been using computers for more than a couple of decades, you've probably used a serial port to attach peripherals like your mouse and modem. Until the USB standard rendered them obsolete in ...

http://www.motorola.comDeveloping and testing software has become the major slice of many embedded systems development budgets. Therefore it should be no surprise ...

Any developer, but above all the firmware or software developer, building a complex, microprocessor-based embedded product faces an enormous challenge to get a reliable, high performance product to ...

Embedded designers put microprocessors in everyday products like cars, phones, cameras, TVs, music players, and printers, as well as the communications infrastructure, which the general public doesn’t ...

The engineers and designers at Raspberry Pi have this week launched a new piece of hardware in the form of the plug and play Raspberry Pi Debug Probe which is now available to purchase priced at just ...

Several processor vendors have extended JTAG software debug, often to make it faster, or to add hardware trace capabilities. The NEXUS consortium for example defines an auxiliary port containing a ...

Friendly Elec has launched a new mini PC this week in the form of the ZeroPi, which offers a headless computer equipped with an Ethernet 10/100/1000M connection, USB Host: 2.0 Type A x1, and Serial ...