This article is part of the Ideas for Design Series: Vol. 3, No. 8. In many applications, accurately sensing the position of an electrically controlled mechanical device such as a motor is critical.

General purpose input-output (GPIO) pins are the simplest peripherals. The link to an object under control (OUC) may become inadvertently unreliable due to many reasons: a loss of contact, short ...

A fundamental skill that embedded software developers need to master is understanding how to write drivers. Within an embedded system, there a typically two types of drivers: microcontroller ...

Editor's Note: Embedded Linux has consistently ranked among the top operating systems used in embedded systems design. With the rapid growth in interest in the Internet of Things (IoT), the ability of ...

The low-cost Raspberry Pi single-board computer (SBC) was originally designed as a platform to teach computer science to students, but it has expanded into other applications, including use as an ...