Computer hardware is the collection of physical elements that comprise a computer system.
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How to implement RGBA in 8-bit microcontroller?
I have successfully connected my microcontroller to my TV via through VGA adapter i made that convert digital to analog signals with the help of resistors.
Currently i am utilizing 8 pins that I am ...
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Performance of single-assignment ADT oriented code on modern CPUs
Working in immutable data with single assignments has the obvious effect of requiring more memory, one would presume, because you're constantly creating new values (though compilers under the covers ...
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What is the difference between a stock-hardware and a micro-coded machine in “A Critique of Common Lisp”?
I was reading this article: A Critique of Common Lisp and finding it hard to make out the precise definition of "stock-hardware machine" and its difference with "micro-coded" machines. I tried to ...
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Developing a cross-platform interface for writing to hardware like PicKit OR USB over the web?
I thought long and hard on weather to put this question in programmers or stack overflow. Please let me know if this is not the right place and I will post it to SO.
My friend and I am developing a ...
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strategies for dealing with machine epsilon
Say you have a situation where you divide and then multiply a float, and you need to guarantee that it survives macheps (ie multiplication output equals division input). What are known strategies for ...
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How many different configurations are used for software tests?
This article shows that for Android apps, software developers use between 30 and 50 different devices for compatibility tests.
I tried to find information about tests of applications on "classic" ...
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How Do Computers Process Conditional/Input/ Event Based Code?
I understand that computers are basically a complex system of electrical signatures that can calculate based on logic boards, and some sort of gate mechanism, but how do computers process something ...
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idquantique .vs. rdrand
We are currently looking at using the idquantique random number generator device to provide random numbers. There are some issues though. We would only be using one device and we have at least 5 ...
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Hardware key removal on a test system
One of my company's applications still requires a hardware key to run, but we're currently in the process of removing that requirement and replacing it with an online check. The issue we are having ...
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For Server Side Java Development, do any processors/hardware stand-out as must-haves for productivity? [closed]
I'm working on a large Java program by myself, and I'm realizing that programming on modern IDE's and running lots of database tests is becoming more and more inefficient. Rather than things getting ...
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How to get hardware specific ID [closed]
We have an application that we need to ensure that our APPLICATION DATA should not be used (or opened) in different computers with same users. For that we thought about getting harddisk GUID as a part ...
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Hardware requirements
How do people define the minimum hardware requirements for software? For example: how can a software development company tell the customer that they will need 8 GB of RAM to run the program properly?
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What camera to choose for using with JMF (Java Media Framework)
For the past 2-3 weeks I've been searching for different ways to implement custom video streaming and in more general video capturing and manipulating, going through DVR-cards, Video Capture Cards and ...
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Is this possible to re-duplicate the hardware signal on Linux?
Since that every things is a file on the UNIX system. If I have a hardware, for example, a mouse, move from left corner to right corner, it should produce some kinds of file to communicate with the ...
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Developing a DVR software using a hardware KIT [closed]
I'm currently thinking about a project for my masters degree graduation. I start researching for options to make my own video streaming software based on a premade hardware kit having not much ...
