Most readers will have at least some passing familiarity with the terms ‘Unicode’ and ‘UTF-8’, but what is really behind them? At their core they refer to character encoding schemes, also known as ...

To answer your question, I reached out to Chris Diorio, the chief technology officer at chip manufacturer Impinj. Chris not only oversees the development of his company’s Electronic Product Code (EPC) ...

The Unicode Consortium (Unicode Inc. ) is a non-profit organization that coordinates the development of the Unicode standard. Its stated goal is to eventually replace existing character encoding ...

When commercial options fail, try using Manchester encoding and other time-tested protocols in low-cost, low bit-rate serial communications. When developing an embedded system that requires basic ...