Interruptions aren’t just a staple of our daily lives. They’re also crucial for making computer systems work as well as they do, as they allow for a system to immediately respond to an event. While on ...

Nearly every embedded system uses interrupt service routines (ISRs). If you need to keep track of time, you likely have a timer interrupt that generates a system tick. If you have a USART, you’re ...

Just as you can often treat device registers as a memory-mapped struct, you can treat an interrupt vector as a memory-mapped array. In my last column, I suggested that you use casts sparingly and with ...

A computer cannot meet its requirements unless it communicates with its external devices. An interrupt is a communication gateway between the device and a processor. The allocation of an interrupt ...

Defining device drivers Discussing the difference between architecture-specific and board-specific drivers Providing several examples of different types of device drivers Most embedded hardware ...

About a month ago at work I overheard one woman complaining to another woman about a coworker’s habit of interrupting everyone in meetings. “That’s just how it is around here. The women listen, but ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote in Slate about a study I conducted showing that men in tech interrupt more than women and women are interrupted constantly, but in corporate settings, women in executive ...

After an upgrade to a newer version of Windows or after you update Windows to the latest build or after you have installed new software or hardware, you may get the ...

In my therapy practice, I often hear couples say, “Don't interrupt me. It’s my turn to talk.” Feeling shamed, the person may back off sheepishly, but are they still listening? I know, I know, ...

Whether it's during a work meeting or a gossip session with friends, it's normal for people to interrupt or cut someone off unintentionally at times. In their mind, they don't mean to be rude by not ...