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How to Write A Great Bug Report

Posted by Matthew Eshlemanon May 31, 2018March 17, 2020in Best Practices, Commentary2 Comments

A well written and descriptive bug report can save your team time and reduce confusion. Find out how in this p

Why I love C++11 for Embedded Software and Firmware (or C++14, or…)

Posted by Matthew Eshlemanon February 13, 2018July 7, 2020in C++11, Commentary, Favorite Code Tricks5 Comments

In the firmware and embedded software engineering domains, engineers overwhelmingly choose C as their language of choice. Evidence of this may be seen in the following screen-grab of a presentation by Dan Saks at CppCon2016. I would recommend the entire presentation, which…

Tenderfoot: Embedded Software and Firmware Specialties

Posted by Matthew Eshlemanon August 21, 2017January 18, 2020in CommentaryLeave a comment

My new post over at embeddedrelated.com, enumerates specialities of embedded software. I hope this post is useful to the "tenderfoots" in the audience. Take a look here: https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/1080.php Thanks! Matthew Photo by Graeme Worsfold on Unsplash

Premature optimization?

Posted by Matthew Eshlemanon June 10, 2017in Best Practices, Commentary, Real Time, ResearchLeave a comment

“...premature optimization is the root of all evil...” - Donald Knuth This well known quote by Donald Knuth represents hard-earned wisdom for which many software engineers should consider and broadly follow. Yet with any succinct rule we must be vigilant…

Questions to Ask: Software Architecture, Design, And Coding

Posted by Matthew Eshlemanon March 9, 2017March 25, 2020in Best Practices, Commentary1 Comment

The process involved in architecting, designing, and writing firmware is complicated, but may be guided by a set of questions continually evaluated by the engineering team.