5 Tips for using Arm TrustZone in Cortex-M Processors
As embedded system developers transition to creating connected, IoT devices, security has become one of the most important issues they…
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5 Lessons to Learn from the Boeing 737 MAX Fiasco
On Sept 17, 1908, Orville Wright and Lt Thomas Selfridge took off in a Wright Flyer from Fort Meyer Virginia….
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10 Tricks for Documenting Embedded Software
There are few things more challenging in software development than acquiring a code base with little to no documentation and…
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7 Tips for using assertions in C
One of the greatest bug squashing tools available to embedded software developers is the assert macro. Despite the power of…
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5 Tips for Accelerating Embedded System Design
If there is one constant through-out the embedded system industry, it’s that our delivery timelines are yesterday. The demand for…
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Where oh Where are My Test Points!
For the umpteenth time in my career, I am debugging a prototype board that has exactly zero test points. I…
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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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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…
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7 Tips for Securing an Embedded System
Security, just like quality and many other embedded system attributes must be considered at the start of the development cycle….
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7 Tips for Optimizing Embedded Software
In “5 Embedded System Characteristics Every Engineer Should Monitor”, I discussed key embedded system characteristics that in many cases require…
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Tools – 10 Engineering Notebook Best Practices
In the article, “Transitioning to a Modern Day Engineering Notebook“, I discussed the basic features and capabilities a modern electronic…
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Transitioning to a Modern Day Engineering Notebook
Engineers and scientists have always relied upon notebooks to document their ideas, inventions, progress and even their missteps. Some of…
