UPDATE Given the comments I’ve received so far I think I should more explicitly mention that the context here are systems that lack a MMU and where a memory allocator may or may not be available or desirable, e.g. Cortex-M microcontrollers. In this post I’ll describe an approach to building memory safe DMA based APIs. DMA? DMA stands for Direct Memory Access and it’s a peripheral used for transferring data between two memory locations in parallel to the operation of the core processor. ... Read more

Hey there! It’s been a while. I’ve been working on some cool stuff for you. Now that’s in more or less good shape I can blog about it! This blog post introduces our new approach to I/O in embedded contexts. Overview: The register model First some background information In microcontrollers all external I/O requires interacting with peripherals. Peripherals are additional pieces of electronics that sit in the same chip / package as the core processor. ... Read more