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Reading and writing memory-mapped registers through volatile pointers

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Passing data from an ISR to a task with a single-producer… Reading a chip's memory map: flash, SRAM and peripheral… Using hardware timers: prescalers, compare and capture, pulse… Tracing what runs at power-on: reset vector, startup code,… Writing short, safe interrupt handlers with volatile shared… Reading and writing memory-mapped registers through… Choosing between polling and interrupts by latency, missed… Deciding when dynamic allocation is safe, and using static pool… Following a sketch through preprocessor, compiler and linker t… Setting, clearing, toggling and testing bits with masks and… Using pointers as memory addresses, and arrays as pointers to… Grouping data with structs and enums, and choosing fixed-width… Reading bits, bytes, and hexadecimal as register values Using zero-based arrays safely, and telling local, global…

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