I love C. I started using it on DEC PDPs and Intel 8080s ages ago. It has long since replaced assembler and, along with C++, remains the programming language of choice in the embedded tool space ...

Originally published in the November 1988 Embedded Systems Programming magazine. Correction is the final step of any debugging exercise. Sometimes bug eradication is straightforward; sometimes a bug ...

Ask most embedded developers why they're still writing firmware in C, and you'll hear the same answer: "C++ is too heavy for embedded." That concern has merit. It's also more than 20 years out of date ...

MISRA C 2023 has been released! As a member of the MISRA C working group, Parasoft contributes to the MISRA C standard. The MISRA organization had me in deep anticipation for this release after MISRA ...

BARR-C:2018 is fully harmonized with MISRA C:2012. Many firmware developers choose to combine bug-killing stylistic rules from the BARR-C standard with safety guidelines from MISRA C. BARR-C:2018 is ...

This article is part of the Embedded Software series: Ada for the Embedded C Developer and the TechXchange: Developing High Quality Software If you’re a C programmer, then you’ve probably heard about ...

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When writing code for a new hardware platform, the last thing you want to do is bother with the minutiae of I/O routines, string handling and other similarly tedious details that have nothing to do ...

Part 2 discusses the process of integrating Embedded MATLAB code into Simulink models as part of a Model-Based Design workflow. Many embedded developers are familiar with the idea-to-implementation ...

“Sorry. I had music playing. Would you say that again?” If we had a money-unit every time someone tried talking to us while we were wearing headphones, we could afford a super-nice pair. For an ...