10 Pain-free Steps to Configure an Interrupt Controller
Properly setting up interrupts on a microcontroller isn’t easy. The number of times an engineer has setup interrupts in their…
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CEC – Designing Embedded Systems using MicroPython
The C/C++ programming languages have long dominated the embedded systems industry, with very few other languages being able to find…
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5 Tips for Getting Started with Digital Signal Processing (DSP) on Arm Cortex®-M CPUs
Digital signal processing (DSP) provides developers with the ability to clean-up and analyze complex signals in a flexible and cost-efficient…
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5 Embedded System Characteristics Every Engineer Should Monitor
No matter how complex an embedded system becomes, there are five key characteristics to every embedded system that develops should…
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The Hardware Abstraction Layer Design Process
Using a HAL is a great way to develop software that can be easily reused and ported from one application…
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5 Benefits to replacing analog components with DSP software
The IoT is unleashing an unimaginable number of connected devices, many of which are sensor systems that are designed to…
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7 Tips for Getting Started with TrustZone for MCU’s
The new Armv8-M architecture from arm® with its Cortex®-M23 and Cortex®-M33 processors is quickly gaining steam in the industry. The…
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The Firmware Conundrum: Build or Buy
Every development team needs to make the decision as to whether they will design and build their software from scratch…
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Writing a Multi-Port ITM Function to Improve Debugging
In “Improve Debug Efficiency with the ITM”, I discussed how the ITM on the Arm® Cortex-M processors can be used…
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7 Tips for Developing Great API’s
Embedded software developers have grown used to working at the lowest, nitty gritty hardware level within a microcontroller based system….
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Getting Started using Arm® TrustZone® for Cortex®-M Processors
TrustZone for Cortex-M processors is on the way! There has already been an announcement from Nuvoton that they will be…
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Improve Debug Efficiency with the ITM
Let’s face it. No matter how sophisticated our debug tools get, there will always be a place for an old…
