Clifford Chow and Gilbert Goodwill of Wind River Systems provide an overview of Bluetooth technology and examine the need for better development tools to increase its use. With the on-coming storm of ...

Postmortem debugging in desktop operating systems (OSes) such as Windows and Linux has been around for some time. If the OS crashes, a kernel dump file is written to the disk for postmortem debugging ...

Many reasons exist why Linux is a good operating system for embedded applications. Besides being open source and cost effective, one of the most important reasons is portability; a Linux application ...

Embedded systems are becoming more complex. The trend in silicon design has been to put the whole system on a single chip. While there are many advantages, one primary disadvantage of embedding the ...

The complexity associated with the development of embedded systems is increasing rapidly. For instance, it is estimated that the average complexity of software projects in the automotive industry has ...

It’s no surprise to anyone that newly written software is rarely 100% bug-free. However, steps can be taken in the beginning to help reduce the number of issues that may appear in your code. Or, to ...

Programmable system-on-chip (PSoC) architectures such as the Cypress PSoC family of MCUs integrate a wide range of capabilities, including MCU cores like the Cortex-M0, programmable analog blocks (PAB ...

WILSONVILLE, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced its newest version of the Mentor® Embedded Sourcery™ CodeBench embedded software development tool, ...

If you’re starting to develop embedded software using Visual Studio Code (VS Code), a question at the top of your list is, “How do I debug my code?” In a vendor-supplied IDE using Eclipse, debugging ...