Tag: debugging

2 posts tagged with "debugging".

A flight recorder for firmware

Timing-sensitive failures on this console keep beating my telemetry: the screen goes wrong while every counter reads clean. This is the build log of a recorder that captures a working run and a failing run of the same workload, so a tool can find the earliest difference that matters.

Four wires, five villains

Getting real console frames from the H7 to the Feather RP2040 DVI took two days and five separate root causes: a CPU-starving encoder, a FIFO race, a missing ground return, a clock divider that lied to me, and a GPIO port that mutes my DAC.