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For years I have used TeraTerm as my serial terminal window. Teraterm has some nice features:Automatic reconnect - when USB serial port is unplugged teraterm disconnects, when it is plugged back … read more

A friend of mine who also does contract engineering was mentioning that a customer of his was getting rid of their engineer. Of course, I mentioned that if they needed more help to let me know. He … read more

So a while back I was debugging some code and found the processor stuck in a while loop.  I had a simple time out system in the code, like:to=1000; //wait up to 1 second while(!flag && t … read more

For some of the peripherals in the Atmel Cortex processors, like the SAMD21 and SAMD20 there are some configuration registers that require synchronization.  Specifically these peripherals can run … read more

When organizations can not answer how good the firmware needs to be they will often ask how good is the firmware?  How many bugs are in the firmware?  What is the quality of the firmware?So … read more