My biggest source of non-spam email comes from people asking how they, too, can become an embedded systems developer. So many, in fact, that I wrote an article about ...

Do we really need another entry into the processor space? Maybe if it's a processor like no other. “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain,” admonished the great and powerful Wizard of Oz.

In this episode of Embedded Edge, our guest is Richard Jaenicke, director of marketing for safety- and security-critical products at Green Hills Software. With over 25 years of experience in embedded ...

Understanding electronics is important. How can the next EE generation get that knowledge when software is all there is for inspiration? New engineering graduates know nothing about electronics. They ...

My son starts college this Fall, fortunately, as I just can’t answer his questions about physics anymore. Like most incoming freshmen he’ll “need” a new computer. “Need” is of course a relative thing, ...

Navitas recently unveiled its 4.5kW data center power supply, boasting an exceptional power density of 138 W/in³ and an efficiency exceeding 97%, making it a leader in the global market.

In 1989 Tyler Sperry, then editor of the print publication Embedded Systems Programming, asked me to write a monthly column for the magazine. That morphed into Embedded Systems Design which in turn ...

With AI being talked about regularly nowadays, it’s important to define what it is to address its proper use if an ethical guideline exists and the potential risks to consider. AI is a branch of ...

For the embedded systems developer, stereotypes abound. The image of young, specialized high-tech workers toiling in a computer-filled lab, sipping Jolt cola late into the night is popular with the ...

An assertion is a formal constraint on the behavior of a software application. Programmers commonly write such a constraint as an annotation, and it usually describes what the application is supposed ...

This series delves into all aspects of real time operating systems (RTOS) and is intended for any developer who is curious about how to use an RTOS and how they work.

In the two decades or so that I've been writing this column, we've covered a lot of topics, ranging from the best implementation of abs(x) to CRC algorithms to logic theory, Karnaugh maps, and ...