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 ...

In the field of computer science, there is perhaps no more fundamental task than to sort. Bubble, heap, merge—take your pick. The methods for reordering data inside a computer have been theorized to ...

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 ...