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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7 Tricks for Estimating Battery Life
One of the top complaints about electronic devices in our modern, mobile society is that their batteries don’t last as…
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CEC – Designing IoT Sensor Nodes using the ESP8266
Course Overview: The IoT edge devices have embedded written all over them. Sensor nodes that acquire data and transmit them…
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5 Forbidden C Features that just might not be
Best practices and industry standards develop and evolve over time but they represent a snap shot of guiding wisdom. Best…
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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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7 Reasons to Avoid Open Source Software
Blasphemy! Open source software is the greatest thing that has ever happened to the industry! It’s free! Why on Earth…
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Tips and Tricks – 7 Cardinal Sins of Embedded Software Development
Every industry has their best practices and their sinful practices. The cardinal sins are the practices that many are aware…
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7 Tips to Accelerate Firmware Development
Embedded software development teams have a unique challenge before them; how to develop more and more firmware in shorter and…
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Ternary Operator versus the if/else statement …
When I’m teaching “C Programming for Embedded Systems”, I’m often asked whether the ternary operator should be used or an…
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Open Source versus Commercial Compilers
Using open source and free software seems to be engrained in the DNA of software developers. Given a choice to…
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It’s the end of C as we know it!
The C programming language has been with embedded software developers since its creation in 1972. Ever since then C has…
