The Circular Buffer is a fixed-size buffer that operates in a First-In, First-Out (FIFO) manner. When the buffer reaches its capacity, new elements overwrite the oldest ones, making it ideal for: ...

A circular buffer, cyclic buffer or ring buffer is a data structure that uses a single, fixed-size buffer as if it were connected end-to-end. A circular buffer first starts empty and of some ...

Why Buffer? Because buffers cut you some slack. Inevitably, in our recent series on microcontroller interrupts, the question of how to deal with actual serial data came up. In those examples, we were ...