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Embedded Software Trends to Watch in 2023
As 2022 creeps to a close, many of you probably reflect on what went right and what didn’t. You’re probably looking to the future and...
Read More >>>5 Tips for Designing an Interface in C
An everyday activity for an embedded software developer is designing an interface for the software component they are working on. An interface describes the interactions...
Read More >>>C++ Project Setup using STM32 Microcontrollers
C++ has been slowly gaining momentum within the embedded systems space. You’re probably well aware that many microcontroller vendors provide C libraries and interfaces to...
Read More >>>5 C++ Tricks for C Programmers
Over the past several years, C++ has become a more popular language to use in embedded systems than C. Don’t get me wrong, C will...
Read More >>>Considerations for using an RTOS in a Bootloader
A bootloader is a light-weight application that manages the boot and update process of a microcontroller-based product. The bootloader is used to authenticate and verify...
Read More >>>Official Release: Embedded Software Design
It’s official! My latest book Embedded Software Design has been released in paperback and electronically! In an earlier post, Book: Embedded Software Design, I provided...
Read More >>>Developing Machine-Learning Applications on the Raspberry Pi Pico
The Raspberry Pi Pico is a versatile, low-cost development board that applies to many applications....
Read More >>>5 Software Architecture Killers
The chip shortage has forced many embedded systems companies to rethink their software architecture. Many embedded systems have tightly coupled embedded software that makes the...
Read More >>>Firmware Error Handling using Do while Loops
An interesting area of a code base to examine is error handling. I’ve found that many firmware and embedded software projects don’t do an excellent...
Read More >>>Are Multiple Languages Needed for Embedded Systems?
Over the last couple of months, I’ve been writing several articles at embedded.com that explore programming languages and embedded software architecture. For example, in Is...
Read More >>>4 Tactics to Unit Test RTOS Tasks
More than 50% of all embedded software projects use Real-time Operating Systems (RTOS). Unfortunately, using an RTOS can pose several problems to developers looking to...
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