Your mission, if you choose to accept it: design and build a pair of satellites to measure the effects of atmospheric lightning, on a shoestring budget of $120,000 ...

Michael proposes a code of ethical conduct for software developers. We the members of the embedded software development community, in order to protect our customers (and their customers) from the ...

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 ...

There's a science to making promises and managing expectations. Your job may be on the line if you don't master the relevant techniques. Your next project (the one you should be working on now, rather ...

In early 1953 the Korean War was still waging hot. President Truman had just announced the detonation of the first US hydrogen bomb. A North Sea flood killed over 2000 people while the USSR broke ...

Hardware design's growing abstraction might lead you to think open-source development is just around the corner. Jim says that's not the case. Open source is a powerful force in software development.

I recently wrote about Ambiq’s new Cortex M4F MCU, which is made using transistors operating in the subthreshold region. Cortex licensees can add ARM’s optional memory protection unit (MPU), and ...

A couple of months ago, I examined some common alternatives for representing and manipulating memory-mapped devices in C. 1 I followed that with a column on why classes in C++ offer a better ...

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 ...

The nuns of St. Camillus pounded all sorts of interesting ideas into the heads us grade schoolers. Some will no doubt come out in the inevitable therapy sessions I’ll need to get my kids through ...

I was told that back in the 1950s when a British Post Office technician had completed a telephone installation (unlike North America, the Post Office was responsible for telecommunications in most of ...