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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Embedded Basics – Firmware Beautification
Developing firmware can be a beautiful thing but most of the code I review is not very pretty. Firmware that…
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Embedded Basics – Hash Fundamentals
Hashes are crucial in computer science and provide a wide range of capabilities and functionality. In addition, hashes play an…
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Embedded Basics – The Arm Security Manifesto
Last week I attended Arm TechCon and a major theme through-out was embedded security. During the conference, Arm released their…
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Embedded Basics – 7 Tips for Managing RTOS Memory Performance and Usage
There are two excuses that I typically hear from developers on why they refuse to use a RTOS: • An…
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Defect Management (Debugging) | Design Cycle | Embedded Basics | IoT | Software | Software Techniques
Developing Reusable Firmware – A Practical Guide to API’s, HAL’s and Drivers
Developing firmware that can be reused is an important and critical skill. The majority of engineers and teams that I…
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Embedded Basics – The Difference between Restart and Reset
When using an Eclipse based IDE to debug an embedded system, undoubtedly the reader has come across the reset and…
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Getting Started Writing Portable Firmware
Developers who want to reuse software have several challenges to overcome in order to be successful. These challenges include but…
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Embedded Basics – Callback Functions
Callback functions are an essential and often critical concept that developers need to create drivers or custom libraries. A callback…
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5 Revision Control Best Practices
Every embedded software developer should be using a revision control system. I cannot even begin to quantify how much time…
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Embedded Basics – Developing Reusable Firmware
Writing embedded software for microcontrollers that is reusable and portable can be challenging. Different microcontrollers contain different architectures and peripherals…
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Embedded Basics – Setting up Tracealyzer to Debug FreeRTOS Applications
Peering into a microcontroller and seeing how the embedded software is executing has always been important to embedded software developers….
