Embedded Systems Weekly – Issue 61

Issue 61 – 15 July 2016

Hardware

Understanding Arduino UNO Hardware Design

This article explains how Arduino works from an electronic design perspective.Share on Twitter ∙ Share on Facebook

Optogenetic hardware setup

How electronics and neural systems can work together, fascinatingShare on Twitter ∙ Share on Facebook

HC-12 433MHz wireless serial communication module configuration

HC-12 are cheap 433MHz wireless serial port communication modules with a range up to 1800m in open space. Each costs about $5 when bought from China, and 2 of them can create wireless UART link that can be used, for example, to transfer telemetry data from UAV. Or drive IoT device. Or connect sensors. Or whatever else one can think of. It is based on SI4463 RF chip, has build in microcontroller, can be configured using AT commands and allows to use external antenna.Share on Twitter ∙ Share on Facebook

Software

Overview of glibc's malloc

A walk through how memory functions (malloc, free, realloc) are implemented in glibcShare on Twitter ∙ Share on Facebook

Re-making History: interpretation of Turing machine

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The Brilliant, and Surprisingly Funny, Computer Code Behind the Apollo 11 Mission

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Extracting Qualcomm's KeyMaster Keys - Breaking Android Full Disk Encryption

In this blog post, the author will demonstrate how TrustZone kernel code-execution can be used to effectively break Android’s Full Disk Encryption (FDE) scheme. You will also see some of the inherent issues stemming from the design of Android’s FDE scheme, even without any TrustZone vulnerability.Share on Twitter ∙ Share on Facebook

CEVA Update the Deep Learning Software Framework for Embedded System

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Misc

Sega Saturn CD - Cracked after 20 years

A detailed look into Dr Abrasive’s lab and what it took to engineer a plug-in-flash-card for the Sega Saturn.Share on Twitter ∙ Share on Facebook

Joe Menard – “Consumer Goods? I’ll build my own (IoT)”

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