Microcontroller interrupts are one of the big tools in our embedded programming arsenal. They make the chip listen for particular events, and once detected they stop what they’re doing and run a ...

You're probably familiar with the idea of spells in the Word of Warcraft. These are powerful abilities whose use takes a few seconds to complete. This represents "casting time." If a character gets ...

Traditionally programmers and organizations have had an irrational fear of using interrupts. One might think that statement is facetious but on more than one occasion in the last year the author has ...

This application note presents the RX family of microcontrollers on using multiple interrupts. The document includes the specifications, the operation confirmation conditions, the hardware and ...

To see the interrupts occurring on your system, run the command: # watch -n1 "cat /proc/interrupts" CPU0 CPU1 0: 330 0 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 11336 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042 4: 2 0 IO-APIC-edge 6: 3 0 ...