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Journaled Flash Storage – Emulating EEPROM over Flash, ACID Transactions, and More. Part I – Flash vs EEPROM
September 28, 2015 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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You cannot erase single byte of Flash, but need to erase the whole page
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First of all, we want to be sure that whatever-is-already-written to our persistent storage, stays there; this property is known as Durability.
Filed under: On.ProgrammingEmbeddedOn.HardwareMCU
Read moreModified Harvard Architecture: Clarifying Confusion
September 21, 2015 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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Definition of "Modified Harvard" architecture is confusing and overbroad. Proposed alternatives are "Almost-Harvard" and "Almost-von-Neumann
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"One thing nobody realised for a while is that the system with the least possible amount of chargebacks is the system which rejects all transactions outright
Filed under: On.ProgrammingEmbeddedOn.HardwareMCU
Read moreAddressing the Delayed Message Attack in Wireless IoT Environments
September 14, 2015 by • “Sergeant Major” Hare
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Delayed-Message Attacks can Represent a Real Threat if Left Unchecked
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Prevention/mitigation of the Attack is easy, but it needs to be taken into account at the application level.
Filed under: On.SecurityResearch
Read moreMulti-threading at Business-logic Level is Considered Harmful
September 7, 2015 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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However, the window for triviality is very narrow: for example, even going into two interrelated mutexes instead of one, can easily make multi-threading non-trivial
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Technically you are able to jump to any point of your program, but the variables you see may (and if you have a multi-threaded bug – will) differ every time you jump there.
Filed under: On.System ArchitectureDesign decisionsOn.ProgrammingDebugging
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