Misc

In the embedded systems/SoCs, Watchdog Timer(WDT) is the basic, subtle and essential circuit/ic. No matter, how good you write your firmware/software. There are always unexpected situations like your program may stick in an infinite loop, hung somewhere or hardware burn-out/failure. To combat these unexpected situations, we need some circuitry that keeps monitoring the main system/application and in case of unexpected events, it restarts the system. Even the windows-like operating system use the watchdog timer....

In the early days of my career, I used to work on Linux machines remotely. In those days, I was not knowing about SSH & all and people around me was using Putty as it was very easy & simple. Open source as well. You just have to enter IP & Port and you would get command-line access to remote machine. here, we will discuss “how to install and configure VNC server on Linux?...

Have you ever wondered , How game of size 8 GB is running on a computer has 4 GB of RAM only? or You can play multiple movies simultaneously combined size more than RAM size? If you are a software developer, you may come across a word like multi-tasking or multiprocessing which is key concept behind this. In other words, it creates virtual memory which is a memory management technique. Here we will see how it works...