It's a high - tech laboratory. The nurse opens the door not with her hands, but her voice, saying "Open door". The MCU takes a second to register the sound, approves it, and opens the door [...]

Embedded technology is most commonly used in real-world environments. What this means is that performance in real-time is of much importance. Imagine a pilot steering an airplane, if one of the [...]

Sometimes the need arises to re-use existing code in other platforms or other compilers.  To do this you need to "port" existing code to work with the platform you are using.  Most times it b [...]

Embedded systems doesn't necessarily mean that your small energy-efficient MCU can only perform one task. You do however, need some careful planning to insure that your tasks do not run at the [...]

The purpose of having coding standards is to provide a guiding format for code development. This facilitates the ease of construction when multiple programmers are developing separate or even [...]

A new and upcoming project is emerging and it has fangs.  Ever wanted an easy to use, high level, multi-threaded language on their micro-controller?  Well it is now a reality thanks to the good p [...]