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 ...

Developers writing embedded Java applications have a stack of frameworks and other tools to choose from. Here are the best Java frameworks used for embedded development today. Java’s creators had a ...

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 ...

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 ...