Embedded Systems Design, November 2009

VOL. 22 NO. 10
November 2009
Table of Contents

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CAN in 30 minutes or less
by Hassane El-Khoury
A quick-and-dirty guide to tuning your CAN interface and simplifying your design.

Migrating ARM7 code to a Cortex-M3 MCU, Part 1
Migrating ARM7 code to a Cortex-M3 MCU, Part 2
by Todd Hixon
There's a new ARM embedded core in town.Here’s a step-by-step guide to porting your code to the Cortex-M3.

Programming Pointers
Computing properly aligned pointer values
by Dan Saks
Here's how to avoid the undefined behavior that arises when using array allocation and deallocation functions in C on a machine with strictly aligned types.

Break Points
Software for dependable systems
by Jack Ganssle
How can we know if a system, and in particular the software, is dependable? An interesting, well-written book tackles this question.

#include
15 billion sockets up for grabs
by Richard Nass
There's a new battle taking place, and no clear cut winner yet in the embedded Internet space.