Be wary of exit-state driven behavior when designing for UML statecharts.
UML Statechart tip: Be wary of exit-state behavior
Why I prefer C++: “RAII All The Things!”
Learn how the C++ RAII idiom enables better code with reduced maintenance overhead.
Why I love C++11 for Embedded Software and Firmware (or C++14, or…)
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…
Brother, can you spare a GPIO?
The core recommendation of this post will be familiar to an experienced embedded systems engineer, yet it is worthy of note and a useful trick for engineers learning their trade. The "trick" in question: Design embedded systems with accessible spare microcontroller…
Favorite Tools – Look Up Tables
As we grow in our engineering careers, we must continually add new tools to our collective tool kits. One favorite tool in my toolkit will be obvious to many experienced embedded software engineers. I still remember learning this approach early…