LPC4350 SGPIO Experimentation The NXP LPC43xx microcontrollers have an interesting, programmable serial peripheral called the SGPIO (Serial GPIO). It consists of a slew of counters and shift registers that can be configured to serialize and deseriali…
What is the difference between a Bootrom vs bootloader on ARM systems Bootrom Bootrom (or Boot ROM) is a small piece of mask ROM or write-protected flash embedded inside the processor chip. It contains the very first code which is executed by the pro…
Test access port (TAP) JTAG defines a TAP (Test access port). The TAP is a general-purpose port that can provide access to many test support functions built into a component. It is composed as a minimum of the three input connections (TDI, TCK, TMS)…