When you think about bare-metal programming, you probably envision an electrical engineer sitting at a workbench, pouring through hundreds of pages of low-level register definitions. Once the correct ...

Embedded system developers have a wide range of operating systems available to them today. Of course, the most straightforward operating system is to have no operating system! However, many systems ...

In this part I move on to describe the GNU linker script for abare-metal ARM project. The code accompanying this article is availableonline at the Embedded.com’s Downloadable Code page. Therecommended ...

While some of us may have learned C in order to interact with embedded electronics or deep with computing hardware of some sort, others learn C for the challenge alone. Compared to newer languages ...

In this Product How-To article, TI’s Joseph Coombs describes the problems developers have in meeting the strict real-time requirements of embedded systems and how use of the company’s StarterWare ...

For each embedded product, software developers need to consider whether they need an operating system; and if so, what type of an OS. Operating systems vary considerably, from real-time operating ...

The decision whether to run firmware under a real-time operating system (RTOS) or to develop a bare-metal solution can be critical to the success of the embedded system. Deciding which direction to go ...

When you combine all these benefits, you’ll find that you can write more-secure and higher-quality software. While embedded developers might hesitate to learn Rust, it’s often called a “zero-cost ...