Today, December 18, 2025, I tried to log into the main Joint Health and Safety Committee website at York University, https://jhsc.info.yorku.ca/ppy_secure/welcome/, (via jhsc.info.yorku.ca) to verify some documentation as I write up a health and safety recommendation and was greeted with this error: This is the main page that we're supposed to use to access JHSC […]
Here, we'll return the value from an array defined in the assembler file to the calling C function. When writing programs like this it's handy to refer to a "cheat sheet" like this one. If everything works as it should your serial monitor should have the following output: There are two files here: returnArrayValue.S and […]
Here I want to post an example of an assembler function that simple sends a value back to the C function that called it. The concept and approach are pretty general, but it is specifically aimed, via the assembler code for running on the RP2350 RISC-V system. Small changes would be needed for a PIC18, […]
Writing assembler code is hard, for a few reasons. First, the lack of abstraction forces you to think about each and every step of your program. Second, the lack of abstraction requires you to know a great deal about the hardware. Then, the grammar is just weird. You might write it from left to right […]
This is going to be a short post. Over the past couple of days I've been exploring the RP2350 and the Arduino IDE as a possible tool for teaching computer architecture. In the morning I've been turning on my macOS machine and have been faced with this: What's causing the issue? I'm not sure. But […]
It's easy to get caught in weird assembler errors. This is made more difficult if you don't have a background debugger and need to use a boot loader / serial monitor to debug your system. Sometimes that's all you have. So here is a suggestion for a C++ and Assembler file pair to check to […]
It was bound to happen. The Seeed Studio RP2350 is not connecting to the Arduino IDE. I'll go out on a limb here and chalk this up to the boot loader having an issue after I tried to get it to spit out serial data or maybe it was because I was trying to get […]
Now, let's blink an LED using the Arduino IDE and the Xiao RP2350. I'm going to use a really handy YouTube video by Xeno Kovah: Arch1005: RISC-V Assembly 13 Writing Assembly 02 GCC Inline Assembly. This opens up the possibility of using "extended" assembler to allow for the passing of values between your C and […]
In engineering education there is an ever-present problem with technology-anchored pedagogy: when do you switch from current technology to the next one? Right now, the cool kid on the block in the RISC-V architecture. Will it be the next ARM or will it be the next PowerPC or MIPS? It's hard to tell. However, a […]
There are a lot of discussions at York University regarding the student status of individuals here at York University. The issue is complex and affects multiple aspects of life at the University. Here, I'm going to tackle one very specific issue: computer user profiles (or IDs). It is very common here at YorkU for an […]