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Most embedded teams don’t realize how expensive some “innocent” embedded development practices are costing them. A quick workaround here, a…
When most people picture software architecture (or a firmware architecture), they imagine clean state machines, tidy flowcharts, and elegant sequence…
Every embedded engineer has wrestled with integrating a new chip or board that should have taken days but turned into…
Midway through the year is a great time to pause and take stock of your development practices. What’s working well?…
Whenever you start a new embedded project, chances are the first thing you do is grab a development board. You…
At first glance, adopting Test-Driven Development (TDD) for embedded systems development appears to make a lot of sense. Create a…
Software architecture doesn’t fall apart overnight. It slowly rots, module by module, method by method, until one day, your team…
Most embedded SDKs are bloated, tied to heavyweight IDEs, and challenging to integrate into modern development workflows. Simple things like…
Last week, embedded developers, managers, and vendors descended upon Nuremberg, Germany, for the annual Embedded World trade show. Despite a…
As embedded systems become more connected and complex, cybersecurity is no longer optional; it’s a fundamental system requirement. Yet, security…
Traditional embedded software architecture has been monolithic designs that tightly couple the application code to the hardware. As many learned…
One of the most important aspects of being an engineer is that it’s an investment in yourself and your future….