Frequent contributor R. Jayapal recently shared an interesting Design Idea (DI) for power supply control and sequencing in MCU-based applications that combine analog and digital circuitry: “Short push ...

4. IRQs and the PIT Interrupts are enabled using the Programmable Interrupt Controller (PIC), and the Programmable Interval Timer (PIT) is configured to generate regular time-based interrupts. These ...

I made this mostly for fun, and because it was a great way to learn about the x86 PC architecture. On a more practical level, it can be used for: Testing out or developing operating systems Running ...