5 Technologies Embedded System Engineers Should Master in 2019
Happy New Year! Another year is here and with it are many opportunities for embedded systems developers. As the new…
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CEC – Jump Starting Code Development to Minimize Defects
Embedded software engineers on average spend 40% of their time removing bugs from their software. This amounts to nearly 5…
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Creating an SWD Adapter for STM32 Development Boards (Part 2)
In the last post, we started to look at how we could design a simple programming adapter for STM32 development…
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Creating an SWD Adapter for STM32 Development Boards (Part 1)
Nearly every development board comes with a built-in programing tool. Depending on the vendor, it may be PE Micro, SEGGER…
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Writing a Multi-Port ITM Function to Improve Debugging
In “Improve Debug Efficiency with the ITM”, I discussed how the ITM on the Arm® Cortex-M processors can be used…
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Tools – Real-time Application Visualization Using Tracealyzer 4.2
It has often been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. When it comes to debugging embedded software,…
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Getting the most performance from printf
The oldest, tried and true debugging technique is to sprinkle printf statements throughout embedded software in the hope that an…
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5 Debugging Techniques for the ARM Cortex-M MCU
Debugging embedded software is my least favorite activity but unfortunately a necessary evil. Thankfully recent advances in technology and tool…
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Unboxing the arm ULINKplus Programmer
I’m a big believer that having the right tools for the job not only can speed up the job, but…
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5 Dangerous Assumptions Embedded Software Engineers Make
Whether we like it or not, we all make assumptions that form the foundation on how we think about and…
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Bugs and Errors and Defects, Oh My!
The very terminology that we use when developing embedded software can set our perspective and have potentially devastating effects on…
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Tools – Getting a grip on Semi-hosting
Semi-hosting is a debugging capability supported by ARM processors that allows the embedded target to access i/o capabilities on a…
