5 Keys to Successfully Managing Legacy Code
I feel like there is always a big focus on developing new features, launching the next product or the next…
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4 Uses for Assembly Language
An embedded tip that I often advocate is that developers should avoid using assembly language. The reason for avoiding assembly…
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Book Review: MicroPython Projects
MicroPython Projects is a book for embedded software developers who are interested in branching out and learning how to build…
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Using Callbacks with Interrupts
On a weekly basis, I receive a fair number of emails with questions about how to design embedded systems. One…
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7 Steps to Create a Stack Monitor
One of the most painstaking bugs to hunt down in an embedded system is when the stack overflows its boundaries…
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5 Tips for Designing a Smart Watchdog
Recovering from a system failure or a software glitch can be no easy task. The longer the fault occurs the…
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7 Steps to Create a Reusable Debounce Algorithm
A quick google search reveals that there are over 212,000 websites that examine how to debounce a button. After examining…
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3 Advantages to using a Multicore Microcontroller
Several posts ago, I wrote about how two major trends for the 2020’s was going to be Python as a…
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5 Tips for Modernizing Legacy Code
It’s always exciting to start on a new development project, but some of the most interesting and challenging projects to…
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5 Tips for Versioning Embedded Systems
One topic that can be tricky for embedded systems engineers is how to version their embedded system. Every embedded system…
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Developing an Embedded Software Build Pipeline
One interesting fact that I’ve noticed about embedded software development is that development processes and techniques tend to lag the…
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5 Roles for Python in Real-time Embedded Systems
Python has become quite the trending program language over the last few years. Named after the famous Monty Python comedy…
