The scope of this article is to show how you can enhance your serial trace logs adding a touch of originality and distinction: the colors. Colored trace logs are very useful, since by using a common communication program (such as Tera Term Pro on Windows or minicom on Linux, both freeware), you can give a different level of priority (importance) to your trace logs.

The scope of this article is to describe the basic concepts related to CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check), an efficient and widely used way to protect data against accidental corruption.

Freescale offers complementary MQX RTOS suite for its ColdFire microcontroller with full source code. Although the software is deliveried in source code, it is highly recommended not touching source code in the component level.

Ada is a programming language developed for USDoD (United States Department of Defense). The name was named after Ada Lovelace (or Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, 1815-1852), who is often credited as being the first computer programmer (without a real computer).

The Register File

Another very important register is the one that deals with Timer0 prescaler/postscaler.

The program counter is an internal register/counter of the PIC

What is a microcontroller?

PICMICRO The course on Microcontrollers, in order to understand what is a PIC.

IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM is an integrated development environment (IDE) designed for building and debugging embedded applications for the ARM microprocessor. It includes a C/C++ compiler able to achieve a high level of optimization, thus generating a very compact and efficient FLASH/PROMable code.