Michael Barr

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Michael Barr is an internationally recognized expert on the design of embedded computer systems. In that role, he has provided expert witness testimony in federal court, appeared on PBS’ American Business Review, and been quoted in various newspapers. He is also the author of three books and more than fifty articles on related subjects. For three and a half years Michael served as editor-in-chief of Embedded Systems Programming, for which he continues to write a column (the magazine was renamed Embedded Systems Design). In addition, Michael has been a popular speaker, track chair, and member of the advisory board at the Embedded Systems Conference for over a decade. Embedded software he wrote or architected powers millions of products. Michael holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and has lectured in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, from which he also earned an MBA. Michael provides consulting, training, and expert witness services through Netrino, which he founded in 1999. Michael is also the founder of Embedded Gurus. He also writes a free monthly e-mail newsletter on embedded software architecture and process called Firmware Update. Michael’s blog is Barr Code.

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- - 05.03.2013
  - Dead code, the law, and unintended consequences
  Dead code can have unintended legal consequences. Here's what shows up in court.
- - 05.02.2012
  - Trends in embedded software design
  As the magazine that catered to embedded systems programmers closes, the future lies in less hands-on programming and more auto-generated code.
- - 03.20.2012
  - Building reliable and secure embedded systems
  Neither reliability nor security can be tested, debugged, or patched into a product. They must be designed into embedded systems from day one.
- - 02.24.2012
  - Combining C's volatile and const keywords
  Does it ever make sense to declare a variable in C or C++ as both volatile (in other words, "ever-changing") and const ("read-only")? If so, why? And how should you combine volatile and const properly?
- - 10.27.2011
  - Firmware forensics: best practices in embedded software source-code discovery
  Remember unintended acceleration? Here's what NASA should have examined in Toyota's software.
- - 09.08.2011
  - Five dangerous coding standard rules
  Don't follow these five dangerous coding standard rules… TODO.
- - 07.27.2011
  - How to enforce coding standards automatically
  Coding standards are an important tool for fighting bugs. Unfortunately, too many well-intentioned coding standards gather more dust than followers. Automatic enforcement points the way to greater compliance.
- - 05.11.2011
  - What belongs in a header file
  What sorts of things should you (or should you not) put in a C language .h header file? When should you create a header file? And why?
- - 03.30.2011
  - Unintended acceleration and other embedded software bugs
  Despite the redactions, we can still learn some interesting facts about Toyota's embedded software and NASA's technical review of the same.
- - 02.10.2011
  - Social networking for engineers
  Not all engineers hate Twitter. Many use social media site wisely. Michael Barr, a former editor in chief of Embedded Systems Programming, is an experienced user of social media and offers this guide to social media for the busy engineer.
- - 02.24.2012
  - Combining C's volatile and const keywords
  That's a fair criticism of that example, DutchUncle. Thanks for all the great discussion here, everyone.
- - 03.01.2011
  - Unintended acceleration
  Nice article, Ron. I have made two recent blog posts about this issue, each with more technical depth than the above. You can find them at http://embeddedgurus.com/barr-code/ Cheers, Mike -- Michael Barr Netrino, LLC
- - 09.28.2009
  - Improve CPU Utilization with DEOS Slack RTOS Scheduling
  Interesting approach to meeting real-time deadlines. I just blogged my (longish) comments about this article at http://www.embeddedgurus.net/barr-code
- - 01.19.2009
  - Dr. Dobb's Journal is No More
  I've posted my commentary in my blog at http://www.embeddedgurus.net/barr-code/2009/01/end-of-print-era.html
- - 01.14.2008
  - Open season on OSes
  Michael Barr responds: http://www.embeddedgurus.net/barr-code/2008/01/are-all-rtoses-same.html I apologize for the cross-post, but I only found out about this thread here on Embedded.com a few hours after writing the above.