Improving Code Integrity with a Stack Guard
Developing reliable embedded software comes down to planning for the worst-case scenario and ensuring that there are guards and traps…
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Design News CEC – Baremetal C Programming for Embedded Systems
Course Overview: The C programming language is one of the most widely used and successful computer programming languages of all…
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Embedded Basics – Understanding the Microcontroller Boot Process
One of the most overlooked processes in embedded software development is the microcontroller boot process. The reason for this is…
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Tips and Tricks – 8 Reserved Words to Avoid in C
Just because a feature is made available to a programmer in their language of choice doesn’t mean that they should…
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Improving Code Integrity Using FILL
Developers like to believe that the microprocessor their software runs on will faithfully follow the program flow that they created…
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Tools – Expanding Knowledge with Coursera
One of the greatest tools available to any engineer or embedded programmer is without a question or doubt, their own…
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Embedded Basics – A few Array Misconceptions
Arrays are one of the most widely used data objects in C, yet, as it would turn out there are…
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Tips and Tricks – Creating Successful Firmware Resolutions for 2015
Early next year I will be posting a blog on EDN about new years resolution for the software development cycle….
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Tools – The OWON Portable O-Scope
One of the great things about working as a consultant is that most of the time the project can be…
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Device Drivers Whitepaper
As the new year approaches thoughts will begin to drift to resolutions and actions that can be taken to improve…
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CEC Introduction to Embedded Software Architecture Materials
Jacob Beningo’s “Introduction to Embedded Software Architecture and Design” CEC Design News course materials can downloaded by clicking the download…
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Embedded Basics – Using Pointer Arrays to Map Peripherals
One of the fundamental issues in driver design is deciding how to map to the peripheral registers. Over the years…