Bitwise operations on device registers
Although expertise may be required in many application domains, a lot of embedded software is focused on the control of peripheral devices and this can…
Colin Walls
MISRA C: Write safer, clearer C code
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…
Use malloc()? Why not?
A topic that I find particularly interesting, which is raised by many embedded software developers whom I meet, is dynamic memory allocation – grabbing chunks…
Surprises in C code
The C language is quite flexible and expressive; these are some of the reasons why it has been successful and resilient to being replaced by…
Harnessing emergent opportunities and challenges for medical embedded applications
Demand for medical care and, hence, for all the equipment that enables the care to be delivered, has been rising exponentially in recent years. This…
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Are text strings a vulnerability in embedded software?
For many years, the security of desktop computers has been a concern. Once a machine is connected to the Internet, there is intrinsically a possibility…
Multicore systems, hypervisors, and multicore frameworks
Software for multicore embedded systems can be very complex. A frequent subject of discussion is how to implement the code on each core so that…
The multicore lexicon: Defining the terminology
Multicore embedded designs are becoming increasingly common. Faced with this technology for the first time, a developer is bombarded with terminology. Understanding the alphabet soup…
Structures and classes in C++
C++ continues to be a minority language for embedded development but is commonly adopted by developers when projects become too large for C to be…
Using the Nucleus SE real-time operating system
View the RTOS Revealed series So far in this series of articles we have looked in detail at all the facilities that Nucleus SE has…