How to Debug a Hard Fault on an Arm Cortex-M
In my opinion, one of the worst, most annoying faults to debug on an Arm Cortex-M microcontroller is a hard…
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3 Tips for Avoiding “Reactive” Engineering
Over the years, I’ve noticed that engineering teams fall into two camps: reactive and proactive. As one might guess, the…
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Simple Tricks to Minimize “Crossed-Wire” PCB Rework
One of the most common issues I see with schematic and PCB layout is crossed wires. For example, the designer…
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3 Tips for Embedded Software Configuration Management
Embedded software configuration management can be a tricky endeavor. Systems today are often designed to work in multiple products, for…
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5 Tips for Versioning Embedded Software
As you know, embedded software changes at a dramatic rate. How we manage software version information dramatically affects whether we…
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3 Overlooked Embedded Software Elements
Have you ever wondered, while you and your team are busy writing software if the very foundation of how embedded…
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5 Tips for Becoming More Agile
Nearly every embedded software team I encounter is interested in becoming more agile. Adopting Agile practices can dramatically improve how…
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2022 FIRST Robotics Competition – Team 7769
Back in the year 1998, the FIRST Robotics Competition gave me the opportunity to be involved in my first major…
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5 Tips for Rapid Prototyping with the Raspberry Pi Pico
Over the last several years, Raspberry Pi’s have proliferated into all sorts of applications. As a microcontroller-focused embedded software consultant,…
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The Ternary Operator Revisited
Several years ago, I wrote a blog post entitled Ternary Operator vs. if/else, which was supposed to be an interesting…
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5 C++ Tricks for C Programmers
Over the past several years, C++ has become a more popular language to use in embedded systems than C. Don’t…
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Solutions to the 7 Silent Project Killers
Several years ago, I wrote an article entitled “The 7 Silent Project Killers”. Over the years, I’ve had several people…
