CEC – How to Select the Right Microcontroller for an Application
This course will examine how to select a microcontroller using a modern process. We will examine traditional selection techniques and…
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5 Strategies for Minimizing Debug Time
If you have spent time developing a product or a DIY project in the embedded systems industry, you know that…
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CEC – Embedded Software Design Techniques
How embedded software is designed and built has evolved over the last several years. Embedded systems are no longer simple…
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3 Tips for Data-Centric Software Design
An elegant solution to many embedded software systems problems is leveraging data-centric software design. Data is at the heart of…
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3 Tips for using Rapid Application Development (RAD) Tools
Software engineers love to write code. Give a software engineer a tool that writes the code for them, and they…
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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…
