Embedded software, once a challenge to write, update, and optimize, is following the route of other types of software. It is abstracted, simpler to use, and much faster to write. But in some cases, it ...

Over the past 20 years or so, Embedded.com and the Embedded Systems Conference have provided embedded systems engineers with the continuing education they need to keep up with rapidly evolving ...

Embedded systems design and development can sometimes seem worlds apart from traditional application development on general computing devices and maybe even more so from Web development on the server ...

Memory is shaping up to be a key leverage point for embedded software going forward as it represents such a large fraction of the silicon real estate in today’s SoCs. Managing memory effectively and ...

The Software developer is member of the Software Development Team implementing and extending complex system functionality to serve our customer/users to communicate while they are executing critical ...

Are we engineers? In some states that title is restricted to those who pass professional competency tests. The New Oxford American Dictionary (2 nd edition, 2005) defines the noun “engineer” thusly: A ...

Computer engineering encompasses a wide range of topics surrounding this interaction between hardware and software. Computer engineers of the future will be versatile full-stack developers, ...

What are the main issues behind the “painful” process of embedded-systems design? Shortages of resources, components, and talent plague the design process. How the instability of toolsets and driver ...

I’m not sure what it is about summer--whether it’s more downtime, more sun, or whatever the reason--but summer seems to be the perfect time to catch up on reading. I often get asked by readers and ...