System designers have long used FIFO memories to couple subsystems with disparate data-transfer rates. Recently, new types of these devices–with new capabilities–have emerged. Know your FIFO choices ...

Interfaces to digital data recorders often require deep FIFO buffers to match the system's data rate to the recorder rate. Sometimes, a second set of FIFO buffers in the opposite direction handles ...

Why Buffer? Because buffers cut you some slack. Inevitably, in our recent series on microcontroller interrupts, the question of how to deal with actual serial data came up. In those examples, we were ...

I like closets. My current one is cavernous, whose sheer size makes it cool in its own right. But let's just deal with the abstract closet type: linear row(s) of hanging clothes. The benefit is ...