I recently complete my series on “Creating an SWD Adapter for STM32 Development Boards” which you can find links to below: Part 1 Part 2...
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Understanding firmware total ownership development costs
Innovation can be an exciting endeavor and on occasion management and developer decisions will optimistically estimate the cost implications for the project. The optimism can...
Read More >>>The Firmware Conundrum: Build or Buy
Every development team needs to make the decision as to whether they will design and build their software from scratch or buy software components. In...
Read More >>>Creating an SWD Adapter for STM32 Development Boards (Part 2)
In the last post, we started to look at how we could design a simple...
Read More >>>Creating an SWD Adapter for STM32 Development Boards (Part 1)
Nearly every development board comes with a built-in programing tool. Depending on the vendor, it...
Read More >>>7 Tips for engineering students
With college classes now back in session, I thought it would be a good idea to provide a few engineering tips for our up and...
Read More >>>Where oh Where are My Test Points!
For the umpteenth time in my career, I am debugging a prototype board that has exactly zero test points. I didn’t design this board, but...
Read More >>>Writing a Multi-Port ITM Function to Improve Debugging
In “Improve Debug Efficiency with the ITM”, I discussed how the ITM on the Arm® Cortex-M processors can be used to quickly, and efficiently print...
Read More >>>Getting Started with Amazon FreeRTOS
As many readers have probably heard, back in 2017, Amazon announced a “new” RTOS, Amazon FreeRTOS, which is based on the popular open source real-time...
Read More >>>Tools – Real-time Application Visualization Using Tracealyzer 4.2
It has often been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. When it...
Read More >>>Webinar – Secure Bootloader Design Techniques for MCU’s
The webinar recording can be accessed at the link below: Watch Recording Download the Slides...
Read More >>>5 Embedded System Tools to Decrease Costs and Time to Market
Embedded systems are complex devices and getting them to work the way that they are supposed to can be a challenge. The average developer on...
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