I’ve had several requests to post the Q&A from my webinars so that attendees can review them offline. After giving it some consideration, I think making these Q&A sessions available on my blog is a great way for engineers who weren’t able to attend still learn something. Below are the compiled questions and answers from … Continue reading Q&A – Secure Bootloader Webinar Nov 29, 2017
Month: November 2017
Embedded Basics – Hash Fundamentals
Hashes are a very important topic in computer science and provide a wide range of capabilities and functionality. To an embedded software developer, hashes play an important role in verification and securing an embedded system. In this post, we will examine cryptographic hash fundamentals and provide the foundations that a developer can use to start … Continue reading Embedded Basics – Hash Fundamentals
7 Tips for Selecting a Secure Microcontroller
Developing a secure, connected device that can also operate efficiently requires that developers select a microcontroller that includes specific hardware and software features. These features can range from true random number generators through secure libraries. Let’s examine several tips for the hardware and software that developers should consider having in their secure microcontroller. Tip #1 … Continue reading 7 Tips for Selecting a Secure Microcontroller
Tools – Getting a grip on Semi-hosting
Semi-hosting is a debugging capability supported by ARM processors that allows the embedded target to access i/o capabilities on a host PC through the debugging interface. The i/o capabilities are most often used with printf to transmit text data to a virtual terminal within the debugging environment but it can also be used for file … Continue reading Tools – Getting a grip on Semi-hosting
Transitioning to a Modern Day Engineering Notebook
Engineers and scientists have always relied upon notebooks to document their ideas, inventions, progress and even their missteps. Some of the most notable engineers and scientists who used notebooks include Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein and Leonardo da Vinci. In fact, mankind would know very little of da Vinci’s discoveries had he not written them down … Continue reading Transitioning to a Modern Day Engineering Notebook