It is commonly thought that a developer needs to understand the language that they program in, the microcontroller and toolchain they develop with but this is a narrow focus of just the implementation phase of a project. In order to truly implement embedded software properly, an entire understanding of the software design cycle is required … Continue reading Embedded Basics – Understanding the Software Design Cycle
Firmware bugs have a nasty habit of hiding in plain sight while to one degree or another being camouflaged and difficult to spot. One of these bugs that nearly every developer has made at one time or another stems from a very simple typo that can be seen below: This simple conditional statement serves the … Continue reading Tips and Tricks – Testing for Equivalence
Embedded developers today work during exciting times! There are a plethora of tools at our fingertips just waiting to make our jobs easier and STM32Cube does exactly that! STM32Cube is a configuration tool suite provided by ST Microelectronics for its ARM series of Cortex-M processors. The tool is designed to help developers decrease development effort, … Continue reading Tools – STM32Cube
I recently had the opportunity to talk about Boot-loader Design Techniques at the IEEE South Eastern Michigan Embedded Systems Workshop. Boot-loaders are a fundamental piece of nearly every embedded system. Microcontroller based systems use a boot-loader to mainly allow the system firmware to be updated without special and expensive JTAG tools. Over the years there … Continue reading Bootloader Design Resources