Interruptions aren’t just a staple of our daily lives. They’re also crucial for making computer systems work as well as they do, as they allow for a system to immediately respond to an event. While on ...

Nearly every embedded system uses interrupt service routines (ISRs). If you need to keep track of time, you likely have a timer interrupt that generates a system tick. If you have a USART, you’re ...

You don't have to give up on getting your point across just because you don't want to be rude. Whether it's during a work meeting or a gossip session with friends, it's normal for people to interrupt ...

A computer cannot meet its requirements unless it communicates with its external devices. An interrupt is a communication gateway between the device and a processor. The allocation of an interrupt ...

About a month ago at work I overheard one woman complaining to another woman about a coworker’s habit of interrupting everyone in meetings. “That’s just how it is around here. The women listen, but ...

Recent turmoil in the Uber boardroom has raised the issue of ‘manterrupting’. Financial Times columnist Lucy Kellaway says men shouldn’t interrupt less, women should interrupt more. Last week, David ...

Just as you can often treat device registers as a memory-mapped struct, you can treat an interrupt vector as a memory-mapped array. In my last column, I suggested that you use casts sparingly and with ...

From the kindergarten classroom to the corporate boardroom, men and women are socialized to communicate differently. Unfortunately, instead of taking advantage of this inherent diversity in a way that ...