CEC Introduction to Embedded Software Architecture Materials
Jacob Beningo’s “Introduction to Embedded Software Architecture and Design” CEC Design News course materials can downloaded by clicking the download…
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Embedded Basics – Using Pointer Arrays to Map Peripherals
One of the fundamental issues in driver design is deciding how to map to the peripheral registers. Over the years…
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Tips and Tricks – Using enum over #define
At first glance enum and #define appear as if they are completely interchangeable. There is really no noticeable difference as…
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Bootloader Design Resources
I recently had the opportunity to talk about Boot-loader Design Techniques at the IEEE South Eastern Michigan Embedded Systems Workshop….
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Tips and Tricks – Sleep on Exit
One of the software architectures for a low power system is to keep the system in a sleep mode at…
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Embedded Software with Python and the Raspberry Pi
Design News course material on “Embedded Software with Python and the Raspberry Pi” can be downloaded by entering the information…
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NXP Kinetis-L Framework Example
Developing your own drivers and API’s from scratch can be a time consuming but rewarding process. Fill in the form…
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Understanding Portable Types
One of the unique challenges of writing embedded software is that it requires the programmer to understand minute details of…
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State Machines with Function Pointers
Function pointers can be used for a wide variety of applications including the implementation of state machines. Just like any…
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Task Scheduling with Function Pointers
One of the most common applications for using function pointers is in task schedulers. Every embedded system contains some type…
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A Review of for Loops
Conditional loops are common in every programming language whether it’s designed for low level embedded development or higher level web…
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The World’s Shortest C Program
Every now and then it is fun to look at a very basic and fundamental example. Every programmer is familiar…