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embedded-systems

Deciding when dynamic allocation is safe, and using static pools when it isn't

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Debugging with a hardware debugger and decoding an ESP32… Passing data from an ISR to a task with a single-producer… Storing settings in EEPROM emulation or ESP32 NVS, and… Choosing standard-library facilities that fit… Telling stack, heap and static storage apart and detecting… Deciding when dynamic allocation is safe, and using static pool… Driving character LCD, OLED and e-paper displays, and… Grouping data with structs and enums, and choosing fixed-width… Reading a chip's memory map: flash, SRAM and peripheral… Reading and writing memory-mapped registers through… Handling text with char arrays and snprintf, and why… Using pointers as memory addresses, and arrays as pointers to… Reading bits, bytes, and hexadecimal as register values Using zero-based arrays safely, and telling local, global…

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