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 ...

A fundamental skill that embedded software developers need to master is understanding how to write drivers. Within an embedded system, there a typically two types of drivers: microcontroller ...

One of the biggest bottlenecks in the software development process for electronic products is that hardware is not available until late in the cycle. That means embedded software developers need to ...

One strategy to rapidly deploy new embedded products into the marketplace is to leverage platforms. You or company probably have a product roadmap that identifies the products that will be released ...

Moreover, software techniques can also dramatically impact the progression of hardware development and system integration. Together, these phases often account for as much as 80% of an embedded ...

Most extensions (Fig. 1) are ratified or frozen, but new ones are currently being worked on. An example of supported extension in various cores can be seen in Figure 2. 2. Standard extension support ...

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 ...