An earlier Idea For Design (Hardware-Based LED Blinking Control Eliminates Software Overhead) described a very interesting way to offload the software overhead required for a microcontroller to drive ...

LEDs are the lighting workhorse of cell phones, MP3 players and diagnostic lights in telecom systems. Their uses are many, from utilitarian backlighting to eye-catching aesthetic effects such as ...

You know how it is. You’ve got that new project running, and while it doesn’t consume much power, it also doesn’t give much indication of whether it’s functioning or just sitting there with a dead ...

Powering components off and on—with minimal system intervention, also known as blink—is a valuable power savings technique. The supported Altera devices are well suited for this due to their simple ...