This installment starts a new segment of lessons about state machines. The subject conceptually continues the event-driven theme and is one of my favorites [1,2]. Today, you’ll learn what event-driven ...

Programming languages are evolving to bring the software closer to hardware. As hardware architectures become more parallel (with the advent of multicore processors and FPGAs, for example ...

1. In a big company, doing ASIC design verification for a WCDMA modem for 3G cellular chips. 2. Small company, doing Embedded Software Programming. Working on the design and implementation of ...

However, suppose you build or use software libraries (such as an RTOS, communication stack, or a state machine framework). In that case, the complexities of polymorphism in C can be confined to the ...

C is still the dominant language for embedded programming—but these days, it has lots of company.

Citing a growing need for for neutral, community-led governance, the foundation announced Rustls as its inaugural supported ...

Successfully developing and launching an embedded system requires a wide range of skills in a variety of engineering disciplines. Every embedded systems development team needs knowledge in eight ...

Although the world of embedded software development languages seem to span somewhere between ASM and C89 all the way to MicroPython, there is a lot to be said for a happy medium between ease of ...

James Grenning takes a look at embedded programming 30 years ago or more, and how it can be done better now in C.

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