The appeal of embedded systems is clear. A high degree of configurability, readily available commercial intellectual property (IP), and the use of well-understood and accepted protocols and bus ...

Freed from the typical difficult and arcane embedded-development tools, users of the Debian GNU/Linux can more efficiently develop applications directly on their embedded systems using native GNU ...

A number of suppliers of embedded software development tools have recently announced that they are “supporting” or even “embracing” embedded Linux. Having been there and done that, I have some news ...

With the rising complexity of embedded systems and the difficulty in finding bugs, observability tools seem to be the new alternative for developers.

The right blend of tools, technologies, and strategies can help developers harness the power of CD, enabling higher quality and more robust embedded systems. The convergence of software and hardware ...

Internet standards such as TCP/IP, IPv6, XML, and SOAP even find their way into compact 8-bit embedded network devices. Pervasive networking permeates this week's Embedded Systems Conference in San ...

Cambashi, a global industry analyst and market consulting firm, predicts a continuing surge in opportunities for information technology (IT) vendors providing development tools for embedded software. ...

One exciting thing happening now with embedded systems is that a lot of programmable logic is being focused to get tighter and faster controls, says Shelley Greitlein, manager of National Instrument’s ...

When I first started writing embedded software, the environments that I found to be the most efficient and easiest to use were only available on Microsoft Windows. In fact, it wasn’t uncommon for ...

Computer engineering encompasses a wide range of topics surrounding this interaction between hardware and software. Computer engineers of the future will be versatile full-stack developers, ...

At the start of the year, I highlighted key trends in 5 Embedded Software Trends to Watch in 2024, predicting the forces shaping the industry. As the year unfolded, many of these trends indeed drove ...