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Our articles cover different embedded/IoT and other subjects. Most articles are in PDF format. Adobe® Reader® or equivalent is required to view the articles. Some articles are accompanied with a source code project, which are also available for download. The list of articles keeps growing since we started SJJ Embedded Micro Solutions in 2004. To accommodate future articles, we have grouped the past articles into their categories below for ease of navigation. Please click on the tiles below for the subject you are interested in.


 
     

Nios® V with GPIOs Example on MAX® 10 FPGA 10M50 Evaluation Kit - January 2026

The article provides an example to create a Nios® V application to access GPIOs and interrupts





A Simple Nios® V Implementation on MAX® 10-10M08 Evaluation Kit - December 2025

The article provides a hands-on exercise to create a Nios V FGPA design and an application that can be debugged using Ashling RiscFree™ IDE.





Altera™ Quartus® Prime Lite v25.1 and Nios® V Install Instructions - December 2025

It has been a little while since we covered FPGAs. Intel has spun out Altera to focus on FPGAs. In addition, the new Nios V software processor, which is based on RISC V, replaces the older Nios® II. The article covers the Quartus® tools installation and Visual Studio Code setup to develop RISC V project on Altera FPGAs.





Windows® XP Embedded Goes to Space, Twice! The Importance of Architecting Windows for Devices - July 2025

As little departure from technical articles, the pre-work that goes into a Windows IoT project that has not been covered. Implementing Shell Launcher, Group Policies, UWF, adding runtimes, etc. are all things driven by a specification. The key to a good specification is the questions asked before the project. This article looks at the pre-work that goes into a project, and how it translates into the development process called out in the book Starter Guide for Windows® 10 IoT Enterprise 2nd Edition.




Self-Publishing Books Guide - February 2025

As a book publisher, we are asked to help with writing books, but the publishing industry has changed. More power is put into the authors hands. Authors have the ability to self-publish their work. The article provides the information on how to self-publish a book.