Discussion Forum: Combinational Logic, Storage Elements and Finite State Machines

? What are the consequences of increasing the rise time of a logic signal? The fall time?
? The state of the system can convey important information about a system. Can you think of situations in which the state of a system can be a problem? Consider cases in which the system has failed and is recovering.

Discussion Forum: Memories & the Memory Subsystem and Intro to Software Modeling

? Discuss the pros and cons of static and dynamic allocation of memory in embedded applications. Be certain to address the circumstances under which there may be potential problems.
? When designing the software for a multitasking embedded system, why is the understanding of and the ability to model concurrency important?

Discussion Forum: The C Program, Pointers and Functions

? Why would we wish to qualify a variable that is being passed into a function as const? Please provide a specific example of when such a practice might be particularly useful in an embedded application.
? Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using pass by reference versus pass by value in an embedded C program.