Integrating processors, sensors, and data exchange functionality into everyday objects, the Internet of Things (IoT) pushes computing capabilities far beyond desktops and servers, weaving computation ...

The automotive electronics industry continues to expand its use of 8-bit and 16-bit microcontrollers (MCUs). With the MCU being the cornerstone of electronic control modules (ECMs), from safety ...

When designing a system, one of the most important design decisions is choosing what voltage domain(s) to use. Some voltage domains, such as 5 V, are good for noisy and harsh operating environments ...

Flash memory-based microcontrollers have changed the landscape for embedded applications. Programming speeds and access times have improved. Flash reliability is no longer a concern in all but the ...

From circuit simulation to embedded firmware testing and PCB design, Proteus lets you see how hardware and code work together ...

Embedded Consultant Bill Gatfiff provides an tutorial overview of many of the different types of device abstractions available under Linux, with sample source code, taken from an ARM-Linux-2.6.12 ...

The C/C++ programming languages have long dominated the embedded systems industry, with very few other languages being able to find a foothold. While languages such as Java and Ada have certainly ...

The evolution of microcontrollers (MCUs) has significantly transformed embedded systems, shifting from simple, standalone processors to complex, multifunctional units that rival traditional systems-on ...

Short for Radio Frequency IDentification, RFID is a dedicated short range communication technology. The term RFID is used to describe various technologies that use radio waves to automatically ...

Segger Microcontroller has unveiled “emApps”, a software package for creating and executing apps, which are small programs that can be dynamically loaded and executed in a sandbox environment. Host ...

If you’re starting to develop embedded software using Visual Studio Code (VS Code), a question at the top of your list is, “How do I debug my code?” In a vendor-supplied IDE using Eclipse, debugging ...