Why Buffer? Because buffers cut you some slack. Inevitably, in our recent series on microcontroller interrupts, the question of how to deal with actual serial data came up. In those examples, we were ...

If you're thinking of programming your DSP in a high-level language instead of assembler, that high-level language will almost certainly be a C-type language. It's unlikely to be standard C, however, ...

An area of memory or a dedicated hardware circuit that is used to store incoming data. When the buffer is filled, new data are written starting at the beginning of the buffer. Circular buffers are ...