I'd bet many people who write programs for embedded systems don't understand the underlying hardware and how it works. Elecia White aims to help those programmers with information in her book, “Making ...

The very first step in starting an embedded Linux system does not involve Linux at all. Instead, the processor is reset and starts executing code from a given location. This location contains a ...

This article presents an introduction of microcontrollers as the first part on the series Embedded Systems Programming. It describes the structure and operation of the microcontroller, and the purpose ...

Prepare for Safety-Critical Embedded Systems at MTU. When software lives inside machines, failure isn’t an inconvenience—it’s a safety, reliability, and security risk. From vehicles and aircraft to ...

Any electronic system that uses a computer chip but is not a general-purpose desktop or laptop computer, tablet or smartphone. Embedded systems use microcontrollers (MCUs), microprocessors (MPUs) or ...

When tasks share resources, as they often do, strange things can and will happen. Priority inversions in embedded systems can be particularly difficult to anticipate. Here’s an introduction to ...

At the end of the second article in this series, which outlines a step-by-step process for embedded Linux development, we had the LBox up and running, ready to use for application development. On some ...

What is Model checking? Model checking has proven to be a successful technology to verify requirements and design for a variety of real-time embedded and safety-critical systems. Here’s how it works.

Universal Serial Bus (USB) technology is the most popular connector in every computing device, but when it comes to embedded applications, where only a specific device function may be required, the ...

Switch Embedded Teaming (SET) is a feature introduced in Windows Server 2016 as an alternative to NIC teaming. It allows up to eight identical physical network adapters to be combined into a Hyper-V ...