Most of the latest 3-axis digital-MEMS accelerometers on the market can generate interrupts for a number of applications. Some of the applications—such as screen rotation, wakeup, freefall, single ...

Handheld devices including smartphones and Tablet PCs have touch screens and many buttons for different functions. In order to save battery power, if the screen is not touched or the button is not ...

This paper will discuss design practices and guidelines that will maximize the efficiency of interrupts and interrupt handling in an embedded system IC. These practices can result in a smaller code ...

As Arm-based infrastructure continues to scale across markets, demands on system components increase. This can mean more interrupts, or signals from hardware/software to a processor to pause a task ...

Q: Steve Kane is not convinced Seattle’s traffic planners travel the same roads the traveling public does, or even get stopped by the same stoplights. So what’s all this talk around City Hall and ...

Signals are software interrupts that are sent to programs to inform them that some important event has occurred. The events themselves might be requests from users or indications that a system problem ...