Embedded Basics – 7 Skills Every Engineering Graduate Needs to be Successful
Engineering education focuses on the technical details and the science of how to build systems. The problem with a four,…
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Embedded Basics – Hardware and Software Breakpoints
Every developer uses breakpoints to debug their software. It’s fundamental. Double click on the line of code that you want…
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Embedded Basics – Don’t Forget about Real-time
Microcontrollers are becoming more powerful every day, causing many developers to forget the resource constrained nature that many are working…
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Embedded Basics – Selecting the Right Watchdog Strategy
Setting a watchdog strategy is easy. Just enable the microcontrollers internal watchdog timer and setup an interrupt to occasionally clear…
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Embedded Basics – Threads vs Tasks
The 32-bit microcontroller has been increasing in capabilities and decreasing in cost which has resulted in real-time operating systems becoming…
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10 Questions for a Successful Code Review
Over the years I’ve noticed a number of common gotchas when reviewing code. They’re there no matter what the size…
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Ternary Operator versus the if/else statement …
When I’m teaching “C Programming for Embedded Systems”, I’m often asked whether the ternary operator should be used or an…
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Open Source versus Commercial Compilers
Using open source and free software seems to be engrained in the DNA of software developers. Given a choice to…
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Embedded Basics – 7 Silent Project Killers
There are few things more discouraging to an engineer than pouring their heart, sweat and tears into a project only…
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Embedded Basics – Becoming a firmware expert
Becoming an expert at anything is an elusive endeavor, especially when that something involves embedded software. The rate at which…
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Embedded Basics – Back to basic best practices …
No matter how wide spread and common place I believe embedded software best practices are, I continually come up against…
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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…
