Embedded Systems Weekly – Issue 38

Issue 38 – 5 February 2016

Hardware

ESP8266 Troubleshooting Guide

Here’s a compilation with some of the most common problems with the ESP8266 and how to fix them.Share on Twitter ∙ Share on Facebook

Intel SGX Explained

This paper analyzes Intel’s Software Guard Extensions (SGX), a set of extensions to the Intel architecture that aims to provide integrity and privacy guarantees to security-sensitive computation performed on a computer where all the privileged software (kernel, hypervisor, etc) is potentially malicious.Share on Twitter ∙ Share on Facebook

New ATMEGA: ATmega328PB

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Software

What's new in CPUs since the 80s and how does it affect programmers?

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Apollo 11 source code

As a side note, blue texts are links to other parts of the source codeShare on Twitter ∙ Share on Facebook

Linux Kernel Library

The LKL goal is to make easy to use Linux kernel code in userspace applications or bootloadersShare on Twitter ∙ Share on Facebook

Small, Freestanding Windows Executables

Chris Wellon has been experimenting with freestanding C programs on Windows. Freestanding refers to programs that don’t link, either statically or dynamically, against a standard library (i.e. libc). This is typical for operating systems and similar, bare metal situations. Normally a C compiler can make assumptions about the semantics of functions provided by the C standard library.Share on Twitter ∙ Share on Facebook

Misc

Hardware and Firmware Attacks: Defending, Detecting, and Responding

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MSP430 VFD Clock - Manhattan Style

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New Chip fabrication approach

Depositing different materials within a single chip layer could lead to more efficient computers.Share on Twitter ∙ Share on Facebook

ESP8266 Analog Broadcast Television Interface

Hook an antenna up to GPIO3/RX, tune your analog TV to Channel 3. Power the ESP on!Share on Twitter ∙ Share on Facebook