September 2019 – Issue #077

Dear Reader,

Summer is now winding down which means it’s now the perfect time to get dig deep into the latest in embedded software technologies. For the first time in ten years, I took a little time off and now have several new events I’m looking forward to launching in the coming months that I think many of you will find useful. You’ll have to wait until next time to hear about those.

This month, I have pulled together several articles that I think provide a lot of value to you and the embedded systems industry. This months articles include:

You may not have heard, but Clive Maxfield, former editor of EETimes, embedded.com and many other industry leading sites, has just started his own Max’s Cool Beans blog on a new site he has created at http://www.clivemaxfield.com/. I recommend you check it out if you weren’t already aware of it!

Happy Coding,

Jacob

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Jacob’s Blog

10 Pain-free Steps to Configure an Interrupt Controller

Properly setting up interrupts on a microcontroller isn’t easy. The number of times an engineer has setup interrupts in their career doesn’t seem to make a difference. Configuring interrupts always has some gotcha hidden away that leaves the developer scratching their head and seeking answers in an obscure data sheet or online code snippet. Thankfully …

Getting Started with JSON for Embedded Developers

For decades embedded software developers worked on products that were stand-alone and did not require any internet access. Over the past decade or so, the number of products that are connected to the internet has grown exponentially and with it, embedded developers have been forced to learn the underlying technologies required to communicate in a …

Using strstr to Parse JSON Messages

When I first started to write embedded applications in C, microcontrollers were not very powerful, and we rarely ever parsed or worked with human readable text. Instead, we often generated packetized data where each byte in the message represented some specific type of information that we would then quickly decode on the fly as it …

The Silent Firmware Revolution

Moore’s law is well known in the electronics industry; it states that the number of transistors roughly doubles every two years. Since 1965 Moore’s law has proven to be true and the capabilities of digital electronics has enjoyed an exponential growth in capability. The embedded systems industry has greatly benefited from the growth in capabilities …

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Expert C Programming Techniques for Embedded Developers

The C programming language continues to be one of the most widely used languages in embedded systems design. Despite its popularity, C is no longer taught at universities and most industry courses just teach the fundamentals. There’s no good source for developers who want to take their C programming skills to the expert level in a practical way that can be used even in robust embedded systems.

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