MCU debug on a pin count budget by Craig Greenberg
Making JTAG work on low-pin-count 8/16-bit microcontrollers required some inventiveness and delicate timing. Here's how it was done.
Turbo encoders boost efficiency of femtocells' DSPs by Hazarathaiah Malepati and Yosi Stein
With an efficient turbo-encoder algorithm, a multichannel 14.4 Mbps femtocell base station can be done on a single digital signal processor.
Programming Pointers Allocating arrays
by Dan Saks
The distinction between allocating arrays and allocating raw storage is useful and worth preserving whether you program in C or C++.
Break Points Skip bugging to speed delivery by Jack Ganssle
Inspecting code is an important group exercise that's painless if you follow etiquette and stay within its narrow scope.
#include The Ace Awards are going green by Richard Nass
We've added a few new categories to the industry's most prestigious awards.