Embedded developers often bemoan the fact that no programming language is ideal for their particular needs. In a way, this situation is unsurprising, because, although a great many developers are ...

Computer scientists affiliated with France's Inria and Microsoft have devised a way to automatically turn a subset of C code ...

Ever find yourself staring at a tricky coding problem and thinking, “shit”? If those thoughts make their way into your code or the associated comments, you’re in good company. When undergraduate ...

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[Editor's note: Part 2 of this series shows how to optimize DSP “kernels,” i.e., inner loops. For more programming tips, see the DSP programmer’s guide.] DSP applications typically have tough ...

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PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

One of the most insightful articles that I have read (in terms of both general daily life and a software development career) is Steven Kerr’s On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B. In this ...

Part 2 looks at complex functions and the role C interface constraints play in the translation process. In the first two parts of this series, we navigated the waters of MATLAB to C translation and ...