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Category Archives: Embedded Basics
In the ever-evolving world of embedded systems, there’s a pressing need to adopt best practices from the software domain to…
In any system design, there are always trade-offs that need to be made. Unfortunately, there is rarely a time when…
Hardware Abstraction Layers (HALs) are an important layer to every embedded software application. A HAL allows a developer to abstract…
If you’ve ever developed embedded software, you know typical embedded build systems have just two build configurations: debug and release….
Simulating embedded software is a technique that most teams underutilize or completely ignore. You’ve probably worked on a product before…
This post will discuss developing a coding style guide and how to automatically enforce it to help you improve software quality and reduce time to market.
post will explore everything you need to know about Semaphores and Mutexes. You’ll learn what they are, where to use them, and how to avoid common issues.
Have you ever had a conversation with your boss or a colleague about embedded software only to discover that you…
As 2022 creeps to a close, many of you probably reflect on what went right and what didn’t. You’re probably…
An everyday activity for an embedded software developer is designing an interface for the software component they are working on….
In “5 Elements to a Secure Embedded System – Part 4 Secure Bootloaders,” we continued to discuss the five elements…
Over the past several years, C++ has become a more popular language to use in embedded systems than C. Don’t…