Embedded Software Blog

Recent Posts

• GTC - mission accomplished
• Measuring RTOS performance - a Web seminar
• The value of MISRA-compliant software
• Preparing for GTC
• Who needs a Web server?
• More on Yocto Terminology - recipes and packages
• PowerPoint hints and tips #2
• New book
• Video
• In an open-source world, it’s all about integration

Archives

• May, 2012
  • GTC - mission accomplished
  • Measuring RTOS performance - a Web seminar
  • The value of MISRA-compliant software
  • Preparing for GTC
• April, 2012
  • Who needs a Web server?
  • More on Yocto Terminology - recipes and packages
  • PowerPoint hints and tips #2
  • New book
  • Video
  • In an open-source world, it’s all about integration
  • Yocto versus Poky versus Angstrom, etc
  • Comparing apples with apples
  • Embedded software performance optimization: Forget about it!
• March, 2012
  • ESC imminent
  • Thoughts on Embedded Linux Terminology
  • Not the Embedded Systems Conference
  • Welcome to my little corner of the world
  • Trends
  • Embedded World visited
• February, 2012
  • Looking forward to Embedded World
  • A slick UI
  • IPv6 is really coming
  • More on System-C
• January, 2012
  • Q&A
  • Interview
  • Joining the embedded bandwagon
  • What’s possible with modern engine controls
  • Goodbye ICT
  • Everything is wireless
• December, 2011
  • The invisible RTOS continued
  • The invisible RTOS
  • On the road again
• November, 2011
  • System-C for embedded systems programming
  • What is the plural of Linux?
  • Device drivers on SMP systems
  • Who needs a debugger anyway?
• October, 2011
  • Hardware designers and software
  • Dennis Ritchie and C for embedded
  • The value of software
  • Efficient code - quiz answers
  • Conference season
• September, 2011
  • Efficient code - a quiz
  • C libraries
  • VDC survey
  • Embedded expectations
• August, 2011
  • Stuffing bits
  • Web seminar
  • Instrumentation
  • Monolithic or not
  • Get packing
  • The ideal programming language?
• July, 2011
  • Embedded tools - the third way
  • What language?
  • Data types and code portability
  • ARM Development Conference
• June, 2011
  • USB 3.0 and data storage
  • On the move
  • After DAC
  • How would you like it done?
  • System power
  • More on DAC
• May, 2011
  • Memory signature follow-up
  • DAC
  • USB power
  • Memory signature
  • And the winner is ...
  • ESC Silicon Valley
• April, 2011
  • USB 3.0
  • Choosing an embedded operating system
  • USB - class drivers
  • Why does power matter?
• March, 2011
  • Introducing OpenMCAPI
  • Device registers in C
  • Share and share alike
  • Why move to C++?
  • Embedded World 2011
• February, 2011
  • Hiring embedded software engineers
  • C++ reference parameters - the downside
  • A different angle on multicore
  • Who needs hardware designers?
• January, 2011
  • Where does embedded software come from?
  • C++ - for loops
  • Secret codes
  • Dude, Where's My Multi-Core Performance? Part II
  • Dude, Where's My Multi-Core Performance?
  • Software saves lives
• December, 2010
  • The power of a greeting
  • Embedded Software Engineering Kongress 2010
  • More uses for an MMU
• November, 2010
  • Embedded software in 2011
  • Firmly in line
  • ARM Tech Con 2010
  • The UI debate
  • Open Source Android Empowers the Military to Evolve
  • USB - even more
• October, 2010
  • Scandinavian embedded
  • Go Forth!
  • The interview
  • A busy season
• September, 2010
  • RTOS deployment
  • USB - real speed
  • jumping in with both feet
  • The wrong word
  • The one line RTOS
• August, 2010
  • C++ at fault
  • Embedded Linux - why?
  • USB – the need for speed
  • Who are you writing that for?
  • Function parameters
  • ARM servers: not so fast
  • Chinese embedded
• July, 2010
  • Why write code?
  • Mixed Signals (or, Why Hasn't This Been Solved Yet?)
  • Electronics for the sick
  • AMP & SMP revisited
  • When compilers do magic
• June, 2010
  • EDA and embedded software
  • Performance Implications of Function Pointers
  • MCAPI – lessons learned
  • How did I get into this?
  • AMP vs SMP
  • Static or static
• May, 2010
  • Hacking your car
  • Using an MMU
  • OS influence on power consumption
  • ESC Silicon Valley 2010
• April, 2010
  • Introducing MCAPI
  • Vintage multi-core - the IPC
  • Vintage multi-core - introduction
  • RTS Embedded Systems 2010
  • USB - what we learned
• March, 2010
  • Graphical medicine
  • EETimes virtualization article
  • Technology trends
  • EW 2010
  • What is "real time"?
• February, 2010
  • Staying in line
  • Android beyond mobile
  • Thanks for the memory
  • Overloading or obfuscation?
• January, 2010
  • Product quality: belief or proof?
  • Agile revisited
  • Small or fast?
  • C, C++ and the family tree
• December, 2009
  • A Google mobile lab, anyone?
  • Stand-by or boot-up
  • Agile embedded
  • IP/ESC'09
• November, 2009
  • Blocking and non-blocking APIs
  • 8 bits anyone?
  • C is great, but...
  • Droids dropping like bombs
  • Parlez vous Fortran?
  • Multi-core, multi-OS confusion
• October, 2009
  • Where do Ford make their paint?
  • Introducing the iBrush
  • Heap contiguity revisited
  • Simulation - better than the real thing?
• September, 2009
  • MMU and heap contiguity
  • Creeping elegance
  • How many mobile phones?
  • Seeing is believing
• August, 2009
  • volatile
  • Multi-core/multi-OS - terminology
  • The RTOS business - a story
  • ++i or i++?
  • USB: easy, but ...
• July, 2009
  • Problem solving
  • Devices that phone home
  • Y2K redux
  • The Works
  • When a fancy UI is not a luxury
• June, 2009
  • Language extensions
  • Fix it in the software!
  • What is an embedded system?
  • There are 10 kinds of people in the world
  • Who needs OS source code?
• May, 2009
  • Assembly language is always smallest/fastest - not!
  • Would you buy a TCP/IP stack from me?
  • Linux in the embedded world
  • Why medical systems need WiFi
  • ESC Silicon Valley 2009: The Fashion Parade