Understanding firmware total ownership development costs
Innovation can be an exciting endeavor and on occasion management and developer decisions will optimistically estimate the cost implications for…
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The Firmware Conundrum: Build or Buy
Every development team needs to make the decision as to whether they will design and build their software from scratch…
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Creating an SWD Adapter for STM32 Development Boards (Part 2)
In the last post, we started to look at how we could design a simple programming adapter for STM32 development…
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Creating an SWD Adapter for STM32 Development Boards (Part 1)
Nearly every development board comes with a built-in programing tool. Depending on the vendor, it may be PE Micro, SEGGER…
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Tools – Real-time Application Visualization Using Tracealyzer 4.2
It has often been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. When it comes to debugging embedded software,…
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3 Ways to Perform a Worst-Case Stack Analysis
Figuring out how to size the stack for an embedded application and the tasks within it can be challenging. In…
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Know thy compiler toolchain
An embedded systems engineer is only as good as their knowledge of the tools they use. Using the right tool…
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5 Dangerous Assumptions Embedded Software Engineers Make
Whether we like it or not, we all make assumptions that form the foundation on how we think about and…
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5 Trends from Embedded World 2018
Last week, I attended the 2018 Embedded World conference in Nuremberg Germany (February 27 – March 1). As usual, companies…
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5 Reasons to start using C++ over C
More than a decade ago there was a constant debate and anticipation as to when C++ would finally eclipse C…
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7 Essential skills for firmware engineers
Having the right tools for the job is critical to success but in the hands of the improperly skilled, the…
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Transitioning to a Modern Day Engineering Notebook
Engineers and scientists have always relied upon notebooks to document their ideas, inventions, progress and even their missteps. Some of…