A high level of data integrity and data security is essential when using FLASH memory in automotive control units. Indeed, to guarantee this for the entire life cycle of the control unit, attention ...

Many systems use Byte-wide Peripheral Interface (BPI) flash memory for FPGA configuration and system data storage. Often it is not desirable or even possible to update the flash PROM directly after ...

While “programmer” and “software developer” are often used interchangeably, there are in fact some key differences between the two roles, especially in the AV control space. When we refer to AV ...

This is true for any programmer that is using In-System Programming. There’s even a standardized 6-pin header that I design into most of my circuits so that you can easily reconnect your programmer to ...

Novel programming interfaces for MCUs might catch us by surprise, but then we inevitably get up to speed with the changes required. Today’s bastion is HVTPI – a “12V reset” addition to the TPI we’ve ...

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Programming language Rust has entered the top 20 of the Tiobe popularity index for the first time, but it's still five spots behind systems programming rival Go. There's growing interest in the use of ...