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Tools – The April Board
The April board is a break-out for the Imp Developer module. The April module provides the ability to power the…
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CEC – Driver Design Patterns and the Internet
Course Overview: Leveraging design patterns is a critical technique to quickly and efficiently develop an embedded system. This course will…
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Embedded Basics – Values and Side Effects
Many embedded software developers learn to program for embedded systems on the fly. The result is usually an informal introduction…
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Tips and Tricks – Learning to write portable code using ANSI-C
Embedded software engineers should be interested in writing production software that is portable and reusable. Societal demands for refreshing embedded…
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Tools – The Sandlot
The mindset that an engineer has about the work that they are doing can have a large impact on the…
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CEC – Writing Portable and Robust Firmware in C
Course Overview: The software development cycle is always a mad dash to the launch date. Firmware developers have their hands…
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Embedded Basics – Peculiarities of the keyword const
The keyword const in C can at best be a misleading type qualifier. One would think that const would specify…
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Tips and Tricks – When to ASSERT or not ASSERT …
that is the question. The use of assertions often confuses even the most experienced developers. Developers should be considering whether…
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Tools – The ANSI-C Standard
The ANSI-C standard is probably one of the most important tools that any embedded software developer has available to them. …
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Embedded Basics – The difference of ‘ ‘ and ” “
Embedded software developers commonly interface with low level sensors and have a good understanding of how to work with signed…
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Tips and Tricks – Introduction to ARM CMSIS
Microcontrollers have become extremely sophisticated over the last decade and developing firmware from scratch starting with the reset vector is…
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Tools – Open Source Circular Buffers
Circular buffers are a critical component to have in the embedded software engineers’ toolbox. Over the years there have been…