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Computing at the Edge and in the Cloud

By Bryon Moyer | November 1, 2019 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: We saw how we can combine computing components together on a single chip.] We’ve looked at a number of basic computing notions, and we’ve seen how, more or less, these come together in computing systems. Now let’s put them into the context of IoT systems. Where […]

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Microcontrollers and SoCs

By Bryon Moyer | October 25, 2019 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: We looked at a basic computing system.] So far, we’ve seen that a computing system has to consist, at least, of a processor and some memory. And we’ve seen that there are different kinds of memories with different properties, and we may need some of all […]

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A Basic Computing System

By Bryon Moyer | October 18, 2019 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: We looked at the role of cache memory in a processor.] Now that we’ve looked at the major components of a computing system, let’s put them together. We won’t talk about how we’re putting them together for the moment; that comes next. We’ll start with the […]

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Cache on the Barrelhead

By Bryon Moyer | October 11, 2019 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: We looked at subroutines in computer programs.] We saw a couple weeks ago that some memories are big, but slow (flash memory). Others are fast, but not so big – and they’re energy-hungry to boot (SRAM). This sets up an interesting problem. When the processor needs […]

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Subroutines and Functions

By Bryon Moyer | October 4, 2019 | 1 Comment

[From the last episode: We looked at several kinds of memories that are used with processors.] Before we go on to our next memory topic, we need to step aside for a second to explain a fundamental programming concept for those of you that may never have done any programming. […]

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