Decreasing time to market is crucial for embedded software teams to stay competitive and quickly address the evolving needs of their target audience. In a rapidly changing technological landscape, ...

The universe has a natural tendency to take an elegantly ordered system and allow it to decay into pure chaos. The embedded software development process is not an exception to the rule. An occasional ...

One of the biggest bottlenecks in the software development process for electronic products is that hardware is not available until late in the cycle. That means embedded software developers need to ...

Product development, no matter the industry, is both an art and a science. Bringing a concept to life requires intensive research, ingenuity, risk-taking, iteration, testing, and a little magic. More ...

A systematic approach that views the clinical research department as an integral part of the development team can enhance the likelihood of success in the creation of new products. Nancy J. Stark Many ...

What are the main issues behind the “painful” process of embedded-systems design? Shortages of resources, components, and talent plague the design process. How the instability of toolsets and driver ...

Businesses around the globe are under pressure to shorten their product development cycles while reducing cost and maintaining quality. This is due to relentless competition, high customer ...

The idea of unit testing has been around for many years. Test early, test often is a mantra that concerns unit testing as well. By using stubs, developers can test code under realistic and controlled ...

Qualcomm's acquisition gives it access to millions of developers in the Arduino ecosystem while also supporting its platform strategy for embedded devices, which now extends across hardware, software, ...

Toronto-based NeuronicWorks Inc. is a design engineering and manufacturing company that casts a Design for Excellence (DfX) lens over product development. DfX is a set of best practices intended to ...

“On the one hand, the proliferation of low-cost, easy-to-use design and development tools and components puts embedded systems design within reach of more users, while on the other hand embedded ...