Tips and Tricks – Limiting Function Complexity shall be a Requirement!
I have recently become interested in brain training applications that are designed to test and improve mental speed, attention, memory,…
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Tools – My Top 10 Favorite Embedded Software Books
I am asked quite often what the best resources are for staying up to date and learning more about embedded…
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5 Tips for Getting Started with the Renesas Synergy(TM) Platform
I have been exploring, tinkering and vetting my SK-S7G2 Synergy Platform development board over the past several months. I have…
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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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7 Tips for using an RTOS
Real-time operating systems (RTOSes) have become a critical component in many embedded systems. Transitioning from bare-metal scheduling to an RTOS…
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Tips and Tricks – 7 Tips for Designing a Robust Bootloader
Embedded software is never finished. The software always requires some tweak, adjustment, a feature addition or bug fix. It is…
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Tips and Tricks – Debugging Embedded Software
Debugging is one task every developer wants to avoid but it is unfortunately a necessary evil of software development. When…
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Embedded Basics – Back to basic best practices …
No matter how wide spread and common place I believe embedded software best practices are, I continually come up against…
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Tips and Tricks – Best Practices for Programming Defensively in C
Best practices are meant to be fundamental, essential practices that every firmware application should follow. Programming defensively has always been…
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Tips and Tricks – Build an Embedded Workbench for less than $1000
An embedded systems developer looking to build a workbench could spend tens of thousands of dollars on test equipment, development…
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Tips and Tricks – An Overview of the PyBoard (MicroPython)
The C programming language has been entrenched in embedded software development for decades. The problem is that while C is…
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Tips and Tricks – Writing Portable Code using Compiler Intrinsics
All preprocessor directives are not created equal. A developer will have different preprocessor directives available depending on whether GNU C,…