Over the past several weeks, the world as we know it has been turned upside down. With these changes, you may be wondering what other engineers and business owners are doing to adapt and manage the changes. Below is a simple list that demonstrates what Jacob has been doing both professionally and personally: Professional: Connecting … Continue reading Jacob’s Ideas and Adjustments for Shelter-In-Place
Month: March 2020
5 Tips for Expanding your Embedded Skills
As embedded systems engineers, we work in a field that is constantly changing. Not only does change come quickly, the amount of work and the skills we need in order to successfully do our jobs is constantly expanding. A firmware engineer used to need to know the microcontroller hardware and assembly language. Today, they need … Continue reading 5 Tips for Expanding your Embedded Skills
7 Steps to Create a Stack Monitor
One of the most painstaking bugs to hunt down in an embedded system is when the stack overflows its boundaries and starts to overwrite memory regions that are nearby. The symptoms of stack overflow usually appear randomly when just the perfect storm of interrupts and function calls are occurring which leads them to be difficult … Continue reading 7 Steps to Create a Stack Monitor
5 Tips for Designing a Smart Watchdog
Recovering from a system failure or a software glitch can be no easy task. The longer the fault occurs the harder it can be to identify and recover. The use of an external watchdog is an important and critical tool in the embedded systems engineer toolbox. There are five tips that should be taken into … Continue reading 5 Tips for Designing a Smart Watchdog