The last two articles have explored the five steps to designing an embedded software architecture. So far, we have seen a need in modern embedded systems to separate software architecture into ...

Like in nature, development tools for embedded systems form “ecosystems.” Some ecosystems are very self-contained, with little overlap on others, while other ecosystems are very open and broad with ...

Modern applications demand faster, cheaper, and better motor control systems, and the performance demanded from embedded motor controllers is ever increasing. Motor controllers are expected not only ...

Graceful Shutdown: Ensuring the motor and controller are shut down safely when the application is stopped. If the application operates on a multicore MCU/DSP/FPGA, an appropriate inter-core ...

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 ...

Mini low-power MCUs embody a processing core, non-volatile memory and RAM plus embedded peripheral functions. The ML6101xx Series of mini low-power MCUs from Lapis are designed for embedded ...

Las Vegas, NV – April 2, 2025 – Mercury Security, the global leader in open architecture access control hardware, returns to ISC West to highlight a new addition to their industry-defining controller ...

The number of systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) that require an interface to off-chip memory is increasing. As a result, more and more designers are turning to double-data-rate (DDR) SDRAM interfaces such as ...

Artificial intelligence is no longer confined to massive data centers or sci-fi dreams. It’s showing up in the tools, workflows, and devices embedded developers work with daily. From voice recognition ...

The world has faced many geopolitical, environmental, economic, and technological changes over the past several years, and with these have come new learnings and opportunities to refine our practices ...

Recently, I stumbled upon a cool write-up by [DHowett], about reprogramming a Framework laptop’s Embedded Controller (EC). He shows us how to reuse the Caps Lock LED, instead making it indicate the F1 ...