Tips and Tricks – Best Practices for Programming Defensively in C
Best practices are meant to be fundamental, essential practices that every firmware application should follow. Programming defensively has always been…
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Mastering the 8 Pillars of Embedded Software
Every embedded software program starts with a basic foundation from which the application is built. A successful application requires that…
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CEC – Rapid Prototyping Embedded Systems using MicroPython
Course Overview: Embedded system developers are facing challenges that often require a look outside of the box for tools and…
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Embedded Basics – API’s vs HAL’s
Microcontrollers have reached a cost point and capability stand point that developers for many applications no longer have to write…
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Tips and Tricks – Build an Embedded Workbench for less than $1000
An embedded systems developer looking to build a workbench could spend tens of thousands of dollars on test equipment, development…
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Tools – Promira Serial Platform
I hold a strong belief that in order to develop more robust embedded systems, faster and within the budget and…
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Writing Portable Optimizations in C
Developing a firmware feature can sometimes be painful but writing the same features over and over again is hell on…
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Embedded Basics – Classifying Software Bugs
Debugging an embedded system is a necessary evil. Debugging can range from very simple bugs that take nearly no time…
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Tips and Tricks – An Overview of the PyBoard (MicroPython)
The C programming language has been entrenched in embedded software development for decades. The problem is that while C is…
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Tools – Embedded Software Start-up Checklist
Setting up a project the correct way from the start doesn’t have to be black magic. Successfully implementing quality embedded…
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Understanding Embedded System Failure Rates
Embedded systems consist of two very different types of failure rates; hardware and software. The probability of a hardware failure…
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Embedded Basics – 3 Simple Way to Create a File Listing
Many embedded software tools require developers to feed a list of files into the tool before any magic can be…