How can you build a fast non-volatile memory from a conventional SRAM? It turns out, you only need a back-up battery and some control circuitry.
August 21, 2020 by Steve Arar
Hardware attacks most commonly occur at the firmware level or during manufacturing. Now, Lattice Semiconductor is releasing two products to protect hardware.
August 15, 2020 by Jake Hertz
Attack vectors are migrating to easier targets, and right now, IoT firmware is fair prey. In 2020, researchers, corporations, and governments are rising to the occasion.
August 10, 2020 by Adrian Gibbons
In a move that shows the power of the Infineon-Cypress duo, the companies introduce what they term the "world’s most advanced, secured NOR Flash memory."
June 16, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
This New Product Brief (NPB) is part of a video series highlighting the features, applications, and technical specs of newly-released products.
April 22, 2020 by Mouser Electronics
This article assesses how researchers have taken a preventative approach to security by creating their own hardware backdoors.
February 21, 2020 by Hannah DeTavis
The new series of SPI EERAM memory chips were designed to retain data during power loss without the aid of external batteries.
December 04, 2019 by Cabe Atwell
The M95M04 devices support 4Mbit capacity and allow devices to capture and store more data using the serial interface peripheral (SPI) bus.
November 22, 2019 by Lisa Boneta
This article shows how to initialize arrays in a C program with values from text files.
September 25, 2019 by Stephen Colley
Toshiba Memory has just announced a tiny, fast new memory form factor.
August 06, 2019 by Jennifer DeLaOsa
Watch out, Moore's Law. Growing demands on memory have pushed semiconductor companies to pack more onto chips.
May 27, 2019 by Gary Elinoff
What software languages are used with programmable logic controllers?
May 10, 2019 by Stephen St. Michael
This week, Adesto Technologies introduced its new FusionHD non-volatile memories (NVMs).
March 03, 2019 by Gary Elinoff
This article, which serves as preparation for a discussion of C-language strings, introduces the concept of ASCII characters and explains two benefits of ASCII-based coding techniques.
February 15, 2019 by Robert Keim
In this article we’ll conclude our exploration of C functions with some additional information and a few useful implementation techniques.
January 30, 2019 by Robert Keim
In this article we’ll discuss pointer operators, pointer arithmetic, and two situations in which pointers can improve your code.
January 25, 2019 by Robert Keim
This article explains why you should use functions in your C-language code and discusses situations in which functions are particularly helpful.
January 24, 2019 by Robert Keim
Toshiba Memory America has unveiled new embedded flash memory devices that utilize the UFS Version 3.0 specification.
January 23, 2019 by Gary Elinoff
This article will help you to understand what functions are, why they are used, and how they are implemented in embedded hardware.
January 21, 2019 by Robert Keim
This article goes over the design of firmware for a custom PCB project: a precision inclinometer subsystem.
January 14, 2019 by Mark Hughes
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