I2C Pull Up Resistors16 Jan 2015[mathjax][/mathjax] In the previous module, we covered the I2C Basics. Now we’re going to look at the pull up resistors…
I2C Basics16 Jan 2015This module begins our discussion of I2C basics by introducing the theory, structure and signalling of the I2C serial communications…
Timing Diagram Basics8 Dec 2014Each component you will encounter that communicates over a serial connection, will require understanding the timing of those interactions. Timing…
Bit Masking the 74HC5953 Dec 2014In the last module, we went from using massive chunks of code to flip individual bits, to a more elegant…
Bit Shifting the 74HC5952 Dec 2014We need to send more than a single bit at a time, and using the previous code would make our…
Boolean and Bitwise Operators30 Nov 2014In previous sections, we’ve learned how to convert byte values from decimal to binary to hex and back again. Now…
Bit Banging the 74HC59528 Nov 2014Moving bits around with buttons is the introduction to serial communications control, now let’s adapt the techniques we performed manually…
Two’s Complement and Negative Binary28 Nov 2014There’s one last topic to cover in our discussion of number conversions. So far, all we’ve looked at has been…
Binary and Hexadecimal Number Conversion24 Nov 2014Converting numbers from binary into hex isn’t terribly difficult, and the more of it you do, and you’ll do a…
Decimal and Binary Number Conversion19 Nov 2014Generally, because I’ve been doing this so long, I can do 8 bit values in my head pretty fast (in…