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Category Archives: Design Cycle
Nearly every microcontroller contains option bytes, fuses, or some method to control general settings on the processor. These settings often…
In “5 Elements to a Secure Embedded System – Part 2 Root-of-Trust”, we continued our discussion about the five essential…
In “5 Elements to Secure Embedded Systems – Part #1 Hardware-Based Isolation”, we started our discussion about the five essential…
My favorite line from the Matrix is that “there is no spoon”, and today that is a wise statement for…
The advancements in chip, sensor and wireless technologies over the past decade have resulted in exponential increases in system complexity…
Delivering embedded systems on-time is a struggle for many developers and teams. From time-to-time, I’ve struggled with delivering on-time as…
I often find that developers initialize task code in seemingly random places throughout their application. This can make it difficult…
It’s very tempting to assume that a system is going to behave as perfectly in the field as it does…
It’s official! The 4th annual Embedded Online Conference is on the calendar for May 18 – 20, 2021. Once again…
A major advantage to using a microcontroller today is that embedded software developers typically don’t have to write their own…
The ability for an embedded system to play audio is becoming a fairly common feature. Audio provides great feedback to…
As an embedded software engineer, it’s really easy to think that all the software for the product is reliant upon…