Makefiles are a fundamental tool that every embedded software developer needs to understand. Even if you use an Eclipse-based IDE, behind the scenes, a makefile is generated to build your objects ...

Embedded software is no longer written in assembly language macros. In fact, the same high-level languages and tools used for writing embedded software are the same tools used for designing ...

Embedded-software technology appears to lag behind new trends. That's largely because embedded developers have a cautious, conservative attitude that comes from years of experience contending with ...

Writing embedded software that is portable in C is not a trivial endeavor. A developer needs to be disciplined and take the time up front to create a design that will be scalable and easily adaptable.

In this online engineering course, you will gain experience writing low-level firmware to directly interface hardware with highly efficient, readable, and portable design practices. By completing this ...

Secure Boot, iPhones, mulch, safety, and Ada—I promise to tie them all together, since they’re all related. Sort of. As a programmer, I try to write code that’s not only functional but also safe, ...

While the global media braces everyone for a recession, it has become nearly impossible to find and hire embedded software engineers in the embedded systems field. I can’t count the number of ...

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you have probably seen that ChatGPT is taking the world by storm. While ChatGPT has caught headline interest, it’s an AI model that helps demonstrate developers ...

We've seen in the previous articles how Ada can be used to describe high-level semantics and architecture. The beauty of the language, however, is that it can be used all the way down to the lowest ...