Hardware Podcasts

159: Flying Rainbow Children

Embedded.fm · 5 Jul 2016 · 1h 02m

What this episode covers

Hosts Elecia White and Christopher White discuss compiler optimizations, explaining how levels like -O2 or -O3 trade size for speed via loop unrolling and inlining, which complicates debugging by hiding variables and altering timing. They define bit-banging as software-controlled GPIO toggling for protocols like I2C, noting that implementing it in an FPGA constitutes hardware design rather than bit-banging. The conversation covers the challenges of unit testing in embedded systems, particularly for drivers and legacy code, and references games like Human Resource Machine and TIS-100 for learning assembly.

Most relevant to

early-stage companies

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
National Instruments
Chips
STM32
Also
StickerMule, Human Resource Machine, TIS-100, Interview.io, VxWorks

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