Your Embedded Software Newsletter …

January 2023 – Issue #125

Dear *|FNAME|*,

Welcome back to the Embedded Bytes newsletter! Your source for everything embedded software and firmware!

I hope that you had a Happy New Year and holiday season!

A few announcements for this newsletter issue:

I’m currently planning to run my RTOS Best Practices workshop twice this month. January 17 – 19 for North America and January 24 – 26 for Europe. This is a great low cost opportunity to get your questions answered and learn about designing applications using an RTOS. You can learn more here. If you register before January 16, 2023, you can use the coupon code RWORK23 to register for only $190 ($60 off). The recording will be available if you can’t attend live

For this edtiion, here are the article highlights:

I wish you a happy hoildays and New Year! I look forward to serving you in 2023!

Happy Coding,

Jacob

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Interesting Industry Blogs

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Did you Know . . .

Beningo Embedded Group offers Software Architecture Consulting and Training

Software architecture design is a key to successfully developing platform software. Platform software is scalable, reusable, and portable code that can be used to launch a series of products with life times of as much, and more than 10 years.

You might be in the process of kicking off a new product cycle, or struggling to get your current product out the door due to your architecture design. If you or your team need help reviewing, or designing your products software architecture, I’m here to help and can be reached at [email protected].

Jacob’s Blog

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Embedded Software Design

This book will teach you how to design higher-quality embedded software from concept through production. Embedded systems are typically designed using microcontrollers to build electronic systems with a dedicated function and real-time responses. Modern systems need to carefully balance a complex set of features, manage security, and even run machine learning inferences while maintaining reasonable costs, scalability, and robustness. This book is organized into three critical areas:

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Embedded System Design starts with a basic introduction to embedded software architecture and the considerations for a successful design. We then break down how to architect an RTOS-based application and explore common design patterns and building blocks. Next, we discuss embedded software design processes such as TDD, CI/CD, modeling, and simulation that can be used to accelerate development. Finally, we will discuss how to select a microcontroller, write configurable code, coding strategies, techniques, and tools developers can’t live without. By the end of this book, you will have a defined development process, understand modern software architecture, and be equipped to start building embedded systems.

What You Will Learn

Learn how to design and build embedded systems in a practical manner
Understand what sound embedded system design is and how to employ it
Explore modern development processes for quality systems
Know where the bits hit the silicon: how to select a microcontroller
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