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 ...

Interrupts are the name of the game for more functional microcontroller firmware. [Rajendra] just posted a tutorial covering all of the interrupt types for the PIC 16F688 microcontroller. He gives an ...

Traditionally programmers and organizations have had an irrational fear of using interrupts. One might think that statement is facetious but on more than one occasion in the last year the author has ...

This application note presents the RX family of microcontrollers on using multiple interrupts. The document includes the specifications, the operation confirmation conditions, the hardware and ...

Every time a computer receives a network packet, completes a disk write, or a user moves the mouse, the processor handles an event known as an ...

This article discusses Hardware Interrupts in Windows and how to show the boot menu in Windows. A video at the MSDN blog shows Windows booting real fast – under seven seconds. The computer used was an ...

You're probably familiar with the idea of spells in the Word of Warcraft. These are powerful abilities whose use takes a few seconds to complete. This represents "casting time." If a character gets ...